'A Sense of Novelty, Scarcity and Excitement'

Kate of Small Dead Animals links to a recent post from Silicon Valley media blogger Alan Mutter, which is also the source of our headline above:

Humphry Slocombe VS San Francisco Chronicle

Think about it: A barely two-year-old business with no marketing budget in a modest storefront in a less-than-fashionable part of town now has a larger and arguably more passionate audience than a once-mighty metro daily that traces its history back to 1865.

How did it happen and what does it portend for what’s left of the Chronicle and the newspaper business?

It could just be that people like ice cream.

Heh.™

You know it’s a strange new world when an ice cream shop gets salesmanship 101 far better than the local newspaper does. If only the Chronicle could stumble over hot stories that build on a sense of novelty, scarcity and excitement…

Oh, and in a related development at a different boutique Bay Area food business, can Northern California produce a dessert treat as boring as the San Francisco Chronicle itself?

Yes we can!

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