Category: General

Nope, not my cat. Anne Holland at MarketingSherpa details: #10. Don’t forget to move the cat: We have a company policy that everyone can bring their pets to work. Anyway, my old cat Pete lives in my office. You’d never know he was there. Except the minute I get on the phone to do a […]

From Master Dave regarding a recent column in the New York Times slamming General Motors: The basic point that [Thomas] Friedman [author of The World is Flat] is making, rather dramatically, is that it’s ridiculous for GM to offer subsidized gas prices on its existing line of vehicles instead of putting in the effort to […]

Well this stinks: Last night’s House vote against an amendment that would make Net Neutrality enforceable is the result of swarming lobbyists and a multi-million-dollar media campaign by telephone companies that want Congress to hand them control of the Internet. The fight now moves to the Senate, where there is stronger bi-partisan support for a […]

After hearing enough about A Whole New Mind from Andrea over the past few months, I finally gave it a read. Here’s my original notes from attending a teleseminar Pink did a while ago. Fantastic book! At the crux of Pink’s argument on the future economic fate of the planet are 3 crucial questions: Can […]

Heads up! I’ve snagged an exclusive behind the scenes look of the rowdy world of teleseminars with our special guest, Lou D’alo. Lou is the head of PowerUP Coaching and creator of the Teleseminar Fortunes program on leveraging teleseminars to increase sales, broaden reach and and expand your business to a whole new level. Teleseminars […]

Seth churns through a long list of blog traffic tips. He forgot: Use your blog to generate leads into your newsletter and your newsletter to generate leads into your blog. I do like the thing about writing in Chinese – I should probably start learning Mandarin now.

My buddy/colleague Tris over at Larix has launched a new project: a blog for a book he’s writing on working at home and the trials and tribulations of life, love, parenting and business while trying to roll out of bed at the right time on the right days: Right now it’s titled Daddy Wears Slippers […]

A few months ago, Amazon.com announced their S3 service. S3 allows you to store your files on Amazon servers, encrypted and secure and visible only to you. Your files are stored with full redundancy which means multiple copies of your securely encrypted files are stored in data centers all over the world. Amazon.com then charges […]

How does net neutrality affect the small business? What’s the big deal? Join me for a discussion with Bill McClellan from the Electronic Retailers Association on how net neutrality affects every small business online. Transcript available in PDF (137 KB) and HTML (28 KB) format. Subscribe to the podcast through iTunes, Podnova, or Odeo. Or […]

I had probably the best sociology teacher in the world when I was in college. We only had one class together but I think the guy’s name was Jerry Savell’s – he’d done a ton of study with Amish communities (I think it was Amish – might have been another cloistered group). He was an […]