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With Youtube, it is imperative you treat your customers right.

We’ve all heard about luggage getting lost or destroyed on airlines, so that’s really nothing new. So a song about a guy’s $3500 guitar getting broken really isn’t that notable.

What is notable is how musician Dave Carroll dealt with it. He didn’t just tell a few friends he got a runaround from United Airlines, he wrote a funny song about it and put it on Youtube. And, there are 2 more in the works. (The entire ‘United Breaks Guitars’ story of what happened.)

It’s also worth it to note that Youtube gets over 100 million page views a day. Way to go United.

What’s even more interesting to note is that this could have gone the other way. If United gave great customer service and took care of the guy’s claim, they might have a wonderful PR campaign out of this. Instead of writing a song about how he got screwed, he might have written a song about how he was taken care of. Free positive advertising…

I’m not sure if United can cover this up. It seems like it would take a lot of money and effort. Sure, maybe if they make good with the guy and pay to replace the guitar, although at this point, it might be “too little, too late”.

Maybe they could work on claim policies to ensure that people don’t get a runaround like this again. But it seems they’d have to put on a good sized advertising campaign to tell people of that fact.

It’ll be interesting to see what, if anything, United does to respond to this.

I hate when I misplace my cell phone. Especially when it’s the only phone I own. I found the neatest little web site that will call my phone so I can follow the ring. Actually, my friends will appreciate this site much more than I will…now they won’t have frantic chat messages from me begging them to call my cell phone!

http://www.wheresmycellphone.com/

To: The Swiss Farmers Union
Subject: Very Hot Swiss Farm Men Calendar
Hello,
I see you have a calendar featuring Very Hot Swiss Farm Men (VHSFM).

I want to buy one every year for the rest of my life. Where can I buy them?
-Heather

Email returned promptly next day: (Gotta love the Swiss…)

Dear Heather,

The calendar 2010 is available on www.bauernkalender.ch. Unfortunately, that one of 2009 is already sold out. For order, just click “Bestellung” or send a contact mail to the person responsible.

Yours sincerely
Mirjam Hofstetter

So there ya have it. Here are some of the hopefuls getting their picture taken for this years calendar. They even have one guy who would appeal to women who prefer ‘the burly mountain man type’ proving that yes, there is a Swiss Farm man for all of us.

My preference? *grin*I like this guy. He looks the most approachable. This guy looks like a good guy too.

And yes. There is a calendar featuring the fine farm wives and daughters of Switzerland as well.

I don’t know what it is about German men that drive me crazy. Maybe it is because they can actually say my last name correctly the first time they see it. Or maybe it is because they are naturally anal retentive. Who knows. But I have to say, I’m very pleased to see that the Swiss Farmer’s Union and photographer Tina Steinauer are putting together a calendar featuring the Farm Men of Switzerland. The calendar comes out in 2010 and Spiegel Online had a few images of the hopefuls.

I’ve already sent an email as to where I can purchase this calendar as it was not clear from the Swiss Farmer’s Union site. I will post an update.

Woo hoo! This is my first post using the cool new wordpress ap! Ok so I prob won’t be doing long dissertations typing only with my thumbs but I will be able to write no matter where I am.