Shelf potato alert – Microsoft Kin mobile phone
- Jul
- 22
- Posted by Ben Smith
- Posted in Blog, Brand Case Studies, By Ben Smith, marketing, Syndicated Article, The Shelf Potato

This article appears courtesy of The Shelf Potato Blog, by Doug Garnett. The article was originally published on July 1, 2010, by Ben Smith.
If you saw the commercials or talked to a rep in store, you probably couldn’t figure out what problems Kin solved or unmet needs it satisfied. The fact that it was pulled from the market so soon by a company with so deep of pockets leaves only a few conclusions and bigger questions.
read moreWhat Is A Shelf Potato?
- Jul
- 20
- Posted by Ben Smith
- Posted in Blog, By Ben Smith, Educational, Syndicated Article, The Shelf Potato

By Ben Smith The term “Couch Potato” has made it into pop culture, with its own wikipedia listing. So when my friend Doug Garnett mentioned a concept he kept coming back to when describing dud products at retail, “Shelf Potatos”, I knew exactly what he was talking about, and I figure that anybody who is […]

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