The Fine Line Between A Blog and A News Site

September 30, 2010

First of all, congratulations to Michael Arrington for cashing out (I’m guessing he did pretty well) with his sale of TechCrunch to Aol. It’s every bloggers’ dream but very few get there and there are myriad reasons why but I’m not going through those. What I am most interested in is the classification of TechCrunch [...]

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Local Is the New Black

September 27, 2010

Even though it has been this way since the dawn of the Internet, local online marketing is truly emerging as critical to the success of businesses of every size. Why is that? Because no matter who you are, be it the CEO of a multinational company to the owner of the corner drugstore to the [...]

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Didn’t I Just Hear That?

September 24, 2010

This is a little bit of a rant. Not much of one. Actually, I may just be saying what a lot of people already feel. I don’t really know nor do I really care actually so here it is. I think that I may have heard it all. Literally. And I may have heard it [...]

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Marketing for Dissatisfaction?

September 22, 2010

I, like my friend Danny Brown, like Seth Godin’s stuff. Sometimes it gets under my skin as I suspect he intends it to. Today was one of those days. Godin’s post is titled “Dissatisfaction Guaranteed“. It was so short I will just give it to you here.

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Facebook Knows You Don’t Really Pay Attention and They Feed Off Your Apathy

September 21, 2010

Whenever we bark about Facebook and privacy I liken it to complaining about politicians. In my mind, you have no, as in zero, right to complain about a politician if you didn’t cast a vote during the election of that official. Plain and simple. If you are not part of the solution then you are [...]

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Facebook Phone? I Can’t Stop Yawning

September 20, 2010

If there is truth to the rumor that Facebook is indeed developing the software for a new smart phone I couldn’t be less interested. Does that mean that there isn’t a market for this kind of a thing? Of course not. I am just one person. What this does signify though is the distinct possibility [...]

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Wherever You Are, You Are Local

September 16, 2010

I am still not sure that businesses understand the true power of the local web. I say that because many SMB’s seem to underplay the actual size of their potential local market. They restrict themselves to only those who ‘live’ in their area. As a result there is a popular misconception that because someone lives [...]

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Customer Service Snafu at Verizon Ends Well

September 9, 2010

I am not big on complaining online because it seems a little whiny. I know that people say there is power in it but I have seen big time social media players use their platforms at times to influence results and while I get it, I don’t really like reading it. Totally my preference personally [...]

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In Game Tweets for NFL? This Fan Says “NO WAY!”

September 4, 2010

I am a pretty big NFL fan. Have been all of my life. Why? Because the product is fun for me. The product of football that is. Anything else about the drama and the thoughts of players is something I see little to no value in unless there is a personal interest in the player. [...]

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I Call BS! 70% of CMO’s Claim Marketing and Sales Work On Equal Basis

August 31, 2010

I am writing about the CMO Survey that has come from Duke’s Fuqua School of Business over at Marketing Pilgrim. As I was looking through the report I saw this chart and immediately I called BS!

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