Are we still doing dress down Fridays?
A few years back, I went into the bank on Friday and it was clearly dress down day. The people in the bank were in tennis shoes, baggy jeans, too tight tees and my teller actually had on a wife beater with red skull and cross bones. The guy sitting at the loan desk had on a suit but the rest of them look like they just came in from a picnic.
I don’t bank at that bank, thats a story for another day, however I wonder what this is doing to their brand. What are they trying to say with the dress down Friday? Why do they have it? If you are dealing with my money, I want you to look like you deal with money. I think it is not good brand management. Since you have one day a week where you are relaxed, are you relaxed about my money too?
I’m wondering, are we still doing Dress Down Fridays? If so, go ahead and leave a comment about what works and what doesn’t.
Of course, that’s why I love Gwynnie Bee, no worries about how I look!

I used to be an Imaginary friend!
I have been a lot of things at different times in my life. At one point I was an imaginary friend. Here?s what happened.
When I was a teen, still living at home, my parents bought a house on Harriet St in Altadena. When we moved in, the neighbor directly across the street came over and introduced herself. When I told her my name, I said the family nickname that everyone called me back then.
She looked at me strangely and then smiled. She said “You HAVE to meet my mother and sister!” I said ok. I thought she was a really friendly neighborhood.
About a week later, she came over to say her sister and mother were at her house, and asked if I could come over the meet them. So I did. My new friend said ?Tell them your name!? When I told them, their eyes got really big and they just stared at me. My friend looked at her mom and sister and said “Told you she was real!”
It turns out, when my friend was little she had an imaginary friend by the same name! Her family teased her mercilessly, but she always insisted the imaginary friend was real. When I moved in across the street, she was finally vindicated!
Awesome blog ( which I found on Twitter- I follow the writer) is a great blog to find cool and unusual items.
Not as polished as Daily Candy but some great write ups and with pics to go with the items.
You can check it out at http://www.ohmythatsawesome.com
If you are marketing an item ( I am not sure if she profiles services) you should be featured here.
Read a few pages of the blog and then submit.
Here are the instructions below.
In four easy steps, you can get your shop featured on our site! So easy!
- Send us a brief email directing us to your online shop with a short description of your goods.
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Yes, this counts as Media exposure!
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