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Fri, Aug 27 2010

Quirk Of The Week: Stephen Markas!
By danielle at 6:22 pm

Remember our Town Meeting and the sad social sales stats that when along with it? Well, don’t look at community member Stephen Markas. Kudos to him for being Quirky’s highest social seller and quite appropriately, this week’s Quirk of the Week! The social media extraordinaire has apparently been singing our praises with referral numbers nearing 25,000. And he’s certainly got the social sales revenue to prove it. Thank you spreading the Quirky love, Stephen, we think you’re pretty stellar too.
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- community,
- quirk of the week,
- social sales
Thu, Aug 26 2010

Quirky Town Meeting #3
By jess at 5:49 pm

Missed today’s Town Meeting? Don’t worry… we recorded it for your viewing pleasure. See how thoughtful we are?

Town meeting august2010
View more presentations from quirky.
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- community,
- quirky staff,
- town meeting
Wed, Aug 25 2010

Quirky Town Meeting, Numero Tres
By jess at 2:47 pm

Heya folks!

It’s that time again. We’re preppin’ for our third-ever live Quirky Town Meeting tomorrow at 6PM EST. Join us on uStream for updates, laughs, some shocking announcements, and answers to all of the questions that have been burning a hole in the back o’ your heads.

The details:

Tomorrow (Thursday)

6PM EST

The Quirky Town Meeting Channel on uStream

Don’t forget to post your questions and concerns on the forum before tomorrow. We’ll try to address as many of ‘em as possible!

P.S. This event is BYOB.
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- community,
- events,
- office,
- town meeting
Mon, Aug 23 2010

Quirk Of The Week – Bill Ward!
By shirley at 10:18 am

Broom Groomer ideator, Bill Ward, swept into our lives early this year and made the world of Quirky that much better! Although his submission was not chosen in the first product round he entered, Bill believed in it and resubmitted. We’re sure glad he did.

Life outside of Quirky (is there such a thing?) consists of inventing toys and running a restaurant in Quito, Ecuador. Hard at work on a second product win, Bill draws inspiration from his wife and 17 month old son, as well as from people who overcome great hardships every day. His goal is to identify a problem, come up with a solution, and then sprinkle a little bit of magic into that solution. Even though he’s not fishing for a compliment, Bill certainly infuses the Quirky-verse with magic whenever he visits!
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- broom groomer,
- community,
- p36,
- quirk of the week
Tue, Aug 17 2010

PCMag <3 Quirky
By jess at 4:03 pm

Sweet news: Quirky made PC Magazine‘s list of the Top 100 Web Sites of 2010, under the Undiscovered: Tech category.

Check out the other sites in our category, as well as our spot in the slideshow.

Of course, we couldn’t have made it without the community’s support. Kudos to everyone!
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- awards,
- community,
- love,
- pc mag
Tue, Aug 10 2010

You’ve Got Questions, Ben’s Got Answers
By jess at 4:57 pm

Crazy stuff went down during today’s live Q&A…

- Sneak peeks of the new site redesign.

- Shots of the Tape Stamp prototype in action.

- Ben impressively balancing a Space Bar prototype on his head.

… plus, all of the questions you’ve been dying to hear answered.

If you missed it, don’t despair! No secrets in this house.
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- community,
- love,
- q&a
Mon, Aug 9 2010

Join Us Tomorrow @ 5PM: Live Quirky Q&A!
By jess at 2:35 pm

Questions? Concerns? Just wanna talk?

Lucky you! Tomorrow, Ben will be holding a live Q&A sesh. Deets below:

Chat w/ Ben

Tuesday, August 10

5-5:30pm EST

Live on uStream

We’ll post a link and embed the stream here when we go live.

Oh, and if you’re unable to attend our lil’ party, post your questions to the forum and we’ll try to get to them if time allows.

Also, mark your calendars: Quirky Town Meeting (Numero Tres) is August 26. We’ve got some big news to share — you’re not gonna want to miss this!
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- community,
- love,
- q&a
Fri, Aug 6 2010

Quirk Of The Week: Tyrel Hatfield
By shirley at 1:44 pm

Tyrel Hatfield has made our week! Actually, he’s been helping to make our week for quite some time now with consistently high quality designs that push the creativity level of our logo phases to greater heights. You don’t even need to read his profile to know that he is sharing the benefits of his graphic design and advertising experience with the community.

On top of all that, Tyrel’s quirkiest hidden talent, which garnered him the win for yesterday’s Twitter contest, made us all do double-takes in the office. It’s only fitting that Tyrel is a double-winner this week. Whistle while you work, baby!
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- community,
- quirk of the week
Fri, Jul 23 2010

Quirk Of The Week: Zabber
By shirley at 3:38 pm

Business woman, entrepeneur, and all-around standup gal, Andrea Zabinski has been sharing her sales and marketing know-how since joining Quirky way back in November. She is always sharing ways to promote Quirky on and off the site. Which makes sense since she has earned influence on so many products! But it’s not just about the profits for Andrea. She cares about what we do here at Quirky and shows it with her cheerful attitude and eagerness to tell all her friends, family, and business contacts about us.

Rock on, Andrea!
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- community,
- love,
- quirky of the week
Fri, Jul 16 2010

Quirk Of The Week: WY Phan
By shirley at 1:27 pm

Since joining Quirky just a short time ago, WY Phan has been popping up all over the place! Between brainstorming ways to bring new people to our site and sharing links and resources about industrial and product design, he has been filling up the Forum with great ideas and getting others excited to do the same. Some recent threads he’s started include…

These threads have generated fantastic response and some pretty great ideas. WY’s a lil’ camera-shy, so he declined our request for a photo. We’re not at all shy about sharing how happy we are to have him in the community. Rock on!
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- community,
- quirk of the week