It sure does pay to be a fan of Garrett Popcorn.

I am pleased to announce that starting today, I will be guest tweeting for a Chicago institution, Garrett Popcorn through February 1st, under the One Gallon Tin avatar.

InteractiveAmy as a One Gallon Tin!

My first day of tweeting comes on #FollowFriday, and Garrett gets upwards of 300 tweets per day!

What do you think, can I keep up?

Follow my Garrett Popcorn Twitter adventures or better yet, sign up for twitter and join in the fun!  See you on Facebook too!

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Where there is popcorn, there are people!

After a Michigan Avenue construction project forced Garrett Popcorn to close its doors, they have finally reopened at 625 N. Michigan Ave (entrance is on Ontario), in time to celebrate their 60th Anniversary!

I had the pleasure of live-tweeting the event hoopla and sharing the festivities with Garrett’s fans!  Tweets containing the hashtag #GPSMA (Garrett Popcorn Shops Michigan Avenue) have been compiled – so get comfy, grab some popcorn and see all of the buzz for yourselves!

Garrett Popcorn provided free bags of caramel-cheese mix to celebrate the re-opening Thursday October 15th, from 10am to noon.  People were in line at 8:30 am to greet the Garrett team with clapping and cheers as the doors swung open!  The media was there, popcorn lovers of all ages came out… and so were the raindrops. Luckily, in addition to popcorn, Garrett also provided ponchos!

Check out the Fox Chicago coverage of the opening festivities, it will leave your mouth watering!

How does Traffic Management and the Chicago Police feel about Garrett Popcorn? You can view my Garrett Grand Opening photo stream to see all of the smiles on the Mag Mile!

So, are you a little salty that you missed the celebration? Do you think I am super cheesy? Have you ever had Garrett Popcorn induced orange fingers?

60 years as a Chicago institution means there are 60 years worth of Garrett Popcorn stories to share! What are your favorite Garrett Popcorn memories!?

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Yesterday I had the pleasure of presenting at Chicago’s Cool Twitter Conference, on the subject of using twitter for Customer Service.

Amy Ravit Korin on the speaker circuit!

The subject of my presentation was “Customized Customer Service – How Domino’s Delivered More Than Pizza.” Through telling the story of how Ramon De Leon, owner of 6 Chicago Domino’s franchises was able to turn a complaint into a happy customer, I illustrated examples of best practices of using twitter to deliver outstanding customer service.

If you missed my presentation, you can hear a radio interview of me speaking on the same subject, my story was featured in an in-depth interview on The Bigg Success Show!

Have you been on the receiving end of outstanding customer service? So often people only complain when on the other side – take a minute to share how someone (person or company) was able to help you with a question, concern or customer service issue through twitter.

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In college I used to play a lot of Tetris, then when falling asleep I would see Tetris shapes drifting downwards as I drifted off to sleep.

Nowadays I dream in the tweet stream.  Perhaps indicative of too much time on twitter, I actually see a constant stream of tweets in my sleep! Of course when I wake up, I can’t recall if these are actual tweets that I have read through out the day, or if I am making them up in my sleep… but I am certain that the amount of information I consume in the day is probably the trigger.

I recently admitted on twitter and on facebook, that I wake up and check my email, facebook and twitter before my feet hit the ground.  I was very relieved to see that many in my network also do the same.

Do you check your email before getting out of bed?

Twitter updates answer the question ” What are you doing?” in 140 characters and tweets are a great way of communicating in a spontaneous and immediate way.  Appearing somewhat disjointed as though you are only reading half of the conversation, it kind of makes sense that this format has invaded my subconscious, as dreams don’t always makes sense either.

I wonder what Freud would have to say on the subject.  Please tell me I am not alone in my crazy twitter stream dreams, do you also see tweets in your sleep?

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