Katya’s websites of the week: toilets and trips

I’m starting a new feature in 2009 - website(s) of the week. This week’s have nothing to do with marketing - they have to do with urination and travel! Because I want to make your life easier not just as a marketer but also as a fellow human being. In the future, I promise to sometimes feature content relevant to marketing.

This week’s winners:

Check out MizPee to find the nearest clean toilet to where you are now. Ratings available - measured by little toilet paper roll icons. (I read about this in today’s Wall Street Journal.) I’ve always been too intimidated to rate anything at Zagat’s but this I could do.

Check out TripIt for your next journey. When you get all your confirmations from airlines, hotels, etc., just hit forward to their email address and they assemble a nifty little itinerary for you! They’ll even tell you the weather! I learned about it from TechCrunch, natch.

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Actually, toilets are quite relevant to marketing! They say a lot about a business. A good restroom can keep customers coming back…while a bad one can drive them away for good. “Skip to the Loo: Bypass Big-Ticket Advertising and Build Business with Better Bathrooms” is a guide book for business operators who want to make the most of this marketing tool. I hope you and your readers will visit http://www.skiptotheloo.com to view and vote in the restroom poll.

Posted by lindaloo on 01/08 at 11:10 PM

Brilliant! I was just talking to my wife last week about this very idea. I used to think about it when I was a student in Sydney, Australia and would find the ocassional pristine loo at a McDonalds or hotel lobby. No such thing as an original idea!

I like the new feature. Thx.

Posted by nallan on 01/18 at 11:59 PM

I have been using TripIt.com for many months now and have found it invaluable for organizing plane flights, rental cars and hotel reservations. Especially considering that we like to move around quite a bit when we visit a new place. It’s lovely to have one print out with all this info so you can find the address of the next hotel in a pinch for the GPS (for example).

My favorite feature is the ability to forward confirmation emails directly to your TripIt account, so there’s no need to type it all in!

Posted by leandra on 01/21 at 01:36 PM

I always tell my friends that if they are in Chicago and walking down the Magnificent Mile on Michigan Ave. and the urge comes, they should use the rest rooms in Tiffany’s.
They are beautiful and clean.
Enough potty talk, back to work.

Posted by Tom Egly on 01/22 at 02:16 PM