I love being surprised by the multi-talented people in CLT.
Everyday I'm treated to a new and fascinating experience that is unique
and uplifting. Yesterday, I happened to come across a rare but
altogether amazing sight: The Windsor Flattes Pose of Excelsior the
Legend. Few understand the power and majesty behind said pose. It
invokes feelings of pride and humility at the same time.

This mighty vision has given me passion to write; only the bravest of
souls will attempt such a dangerous feat. Kudos to you Nick...kudos to
you.

What you cannot see from the photo is that Nick's right foot is
actually about 2 inches off the ground. If executed properly, this
pose, made famous by Excelsior the Legend, will allow momentary flight,
and/or spontaneous laughter. If executed without the necessary
preparation, this maneuver can end with a sore belly and red face.
You've been warned!

Hey, World! My name's Jesse and I wanted to introduce the Customer Loyalty Team (CLT) to everyone. We are a fun and weird (core value #3) crew consisting of people from all walks of life.

Our hobbies include playing music, memorizing every episode of Golden Girls, making good choices, repairing vans, winning jackpots, listening to Savage Garden, healing winter borne injuries, staying at home, flying to distant countries, singing in the musical group The M-52s, sweet mustaches, and many many more activities. Actually, these are some of the hobbies of the Email Team, the team of which I hail from.

If you don't already know me or the rest of the email team, we are located right by the Copier of Doom on the east side of CLT. Yes, the copier that has a mind of it's own...but that's a topic for another blog. Until then, I will see you later.

P.S. My favorite shoe company in the world is Globe, and I may refer to them cryptically when necessary ;) Excelsior!

A few weeks ago we posted this, a quick look at what our upcoming VIP site may look like. Well the time seemed about right to present another peek at the new site. Below we have a pic of what part of the home page may look like. Of course there is a lot ot tweaking still to be had and it will evolve over time, but we thought we'd share it with ya!

In the previous post regarding the new site I briefly touched on how many people are working on this back at the zoffice, well, there are still tons of people contributing. We are making some good progress lately and watching it all come together has been crazy fun. I am so proud to be a part of the team, while I am not quite as involved as many others are in the creation of the new site I feel an emotional connection to this. I can only imagine how everyone else must feel...those who are coding, programming, skinning, categorizing, designing, etc, truly deserve a massive pat on the back for their hard work. I guess the hard part is deciding if that pat on the back should be really hard, or if it should be a massive hand gently patting on the back? However you interpret massive pat on the back, well, they deserve it!

Hey there readers! We've teamed up with the folks who do likeness quizzes on Facebook and created a quiz! You can play with it here on Facebook.

If you are anything like myself or the 1,600 coworkers here at Zappos you will do anything to distract yourself from the daily grind and have some fun, I mean, added fun from your wonderful job :-) This likeness quiz may help, enjoy!

Also, we've added out TV Commercial to our page on Facebook, you can view it here.
Sorry so short! TTYL, OMG, LOL! WTF!! ROFL!

So if you are one of my 5 loyal readers (I am that popular) you'll know that I host an unhealthy obsession with argyle. But the best part about this is that I have learned there are others more obsessed than I am here at Zappos. Awesome! The pic below is the second of this repeat argyle offender, and from what I was told by her is that there will be 50 separate argyle pieces to come over the coming months. 50? That is a lot, I suggest argyle therapy for her! If you are interested in jumping on the argyle bandwagon we can help ya out with some argyle pieces here at Zappos.com! Hopefully we'll carry more soon!! If so I would be our biggest customer!

Interested in hearing what all the Tweets are about? Then check out a new little project we put together quickly: twitter.zappos.com. What is this exactly? Well, it is a little place to see all the messages people write on Twitter that mention Zappos! Oh, and if you are unfamiliar with Twitter here is how they describe it straight from their site, and I quote: "Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?"

It's actually a cool little tool to stay informed! Needless to say people are going to Twitter about anything. We discovered that people actual Twitter a good deal about Zappos, so we figured we would share the messages with the world! At twitter.zappos.com you'll see the good, the bad, the partial, the impartial, employees, customers, enemies, Romans, countrymen, lovers, etc, etc... all mentioning Zappos for whatever reason while using Twitter!!!

There are other ways to get these messages too, if you have a Twitter account type track zappos into the message field and you'll get all the Tweets that mention Zappos delivered straight to you (might be worth tracking Zappos.com and Zappo as well, just in case). Hopefully you find it as fun as we do, and if you have any questions/comments about enhancing this please leave a comment and we'll see what we can do to accommodate!

A healthy bunch of Zapponians took flight and headed to Austin last week to attend South by Southwest Interactive(SXSW). If you are not familiar with SXSW, it is the leading interactive festival out there, not to mention 1 part Music and 1 part Film as well! SXSW attracts the industry leaders in the web world, and among other things is an orgy of tech talk and networking. Several of us attended last year and saw clearly how great of an opportunity it would be to get others out there. So we did. 20 of us in all went out there to spread the word that Zappos is hiring! Oh wait, I forgot to mention...Tony spoke at the conference as well, he had the floor for an hour and discussed the "Top Ten Lessons Learned in E-Commerce". If you haven't had a chance to view the slideshow you may just want to set aside some time and give it a look, great stuff!

We actually had a booth there too, this was a decision meant for two purposes: 1. primarily to spread the hiring word and 2. we needed a place to hang out and regroup from time to time. I will take the liberty and speak for others (hey others, don't shoot me for putting words in your mouth) but all had a blast!! Met some incredible candidates who may be Zappos team members soon, so that is wonderful!

It just so happened that it was raining REALLY hard one of the days and as luck would have it we had several thousand ponchos at our booth, luck! So we handed them out and helped keep people dry! Zappos, at your service! Check out some of the pics from the event here!