Building on Justin’s post: Who are you working for? “No, that is not your problem,” he says.”Your problem is you don’t know what the goal is. And, by the way, there is only one goal, no matter what the company.” That stumps me for a second. Jonah starts walking toward the gate again. It seems [...]
Attitude
It's good to be back!! Yesterday I had a very informative conversation with a client of mine with a deep marketing background. The topic centered around "Web 2.0" companies and could small to midsized, non "Web 2.0" companies, borrow some of the same concepts to grow market share and brand awareness, social networking, and focused [...]
The Gold Rush Fallacy: Why Yahoo Will Never Recover
11/3/2019 Update: As time has proven Yahoo! did not end up recovering. However the premise of the Gold Rush is over was disproven through (1) the rise of Infrastructure as a Service: Azure, AWS, Twillio, and Stripe; (2) the scale of Content as a Service: Spotify, and Netflix, Twitch and (3) the rise of Ecommerce [...]
Who are you working for?
While taking a mental break this morning to read my new favorite blog Coding Horror, I came across Jeff's post about UNIX turning 40 years old. While I digested his points about the different closed source, open source and mixed source flavors of *NIX, I was pleasantly surprised when a quote from Joel Spolsky in Jeff's [...]
Friends Make the Best Bloggers (and Guest Posts)
There is an inadvertent side-effect to going deep into subject areas that may or may not be current news, you have fewer opportunities to link to friends.* So this is the post where we let all our friends know that yes we do read your blogs. Martin Gillard @ The Digital Corner – a quick [...]
The Brand Mason’s Peer Review: 7 Common Cents Naming Insights
Editor’s note: The following is a guest post by The Brand Mason (Steven Mason), a marketing, communications and naming artisan. Follow on twitter: @thebrandmason Over the past 22 years, Steven has been a marketing executive at—and consultant to—public and private Internet security/networking, enterprise software, B2B platform, e-Business firms, and consumer packaged goods (CPG) firms, as [...]
Will.i.am: Business Genius in the Music Industry
Will.i.am front man for pop sensation Black Eyed Peas is a business genius. Its forgone that he’s a creative genius, having transitioned his group’s brand from a feel good hip hop group to a full blown pop sensation. Along the way he’s developed a production resume that ranges from the Yes We Can Obama campaign [...]
It hurts to ask, or it doesn’t … Wait? Wha?
Seth Godin has a new post up positing that it doesn’t hurt to ask, unless it does. I’ve voiced a bit of my opinions of Seth’s business advice previously, so I was a bit surprised when I found myself in agreement with his post. His post begins: "It doesn't hurt to ask" Actually, it does [...]
Test Driving Wolfram Alpha
Wolfram Alpha, the computational search engine, had a soft launch on Friday. While some are calling this a Google killer, I personally think the two engines will complement each other and allow for information to be served depending on your needs. Wolfram Alpha provides me with some capabilities that Google did not, i.e. the ability [...]
An Executive Guide to Social Media
A co-worker sent me a link to BusinessWeek's special report on Social media. There were two things that really stood out to me: Jakob Nielsen's critique on Twitter & CEO's was spot on. The Survival of the Twittest article had an interesting bit on Domino's Pizza limiting the fall out from its "employees adding, shall [...]
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