Andy Wibbels

Stuff you should know, stuff I should remember.

  • Time, Money, Sex (and Salvation)

    Last week I walked through the frameworks in art and technology and how they can be applied to just about any discipline – unveiling my own framework in the process. We looked at The Three Buttons that divide up the sales cycle: Search (prospect looks for answers and finds you), Subscribe (they become a part […]

  • The Three Buttons

    While I was taking a break from the newsletter and blog, I’d done a lot of reconsideration of the massive hairwad that is internet marketing and doing business online. When I was a young one, my family had gone to the symphony with my grandparents. During the intermission, my grandmother leaned over and asked me […]

  • Everything is a Lifestyle

    The word lifestyle always makes me cringe. Partially because it is coded language used in the movement to block equality rights for gay men and women by right-wing fundamentalists. Lifestyles are a choice so every time you hear someone talk about the ‘gay lifestyle’ part of the meme is that same-sex attraction is not natural […]

  • Facebook Ad Targeting Still Sucks

    With all the JavaScript wizardry the devs at Facebook manage to shoehorn into Facebook (and support so many different configurations of browser and operating systems) it constantly amazes me that their targeted ads get such poor performance: A Facebook advertiser who has spent thousands of dollars on campaigns targeted by age and country says that […]

  • Become an Online Business Manager by Tina Forsyth (Book Review)

    There’s a few people in this world I’d trust with anything and one of them is Tina Forsyth. Eric and I have often referred to Tina and Andrea J. Lee as our Witches of Eastwick (the third was Susan Austin who appears to be still underground – hope she’s okay). I first met Tina back […]

  • Recession, Depression and Self-Expression (I’m Freaked Out, Too)

    If you think you can be recession-proof you’re an idiot and should immediately unsubscribe from this newsletter or feed. Months ago when the ‘credit crunch’ began there was a flurry of teleseminars and newsletters talking about how it wouldn’t affecting anything or anyone and we should all keep clapping until Tinkerbell comes back to life. […]

  • Good Times RIP for Leverage

    Mused with a friend that perhaps Sequoia’s Good Times RIP presentation was purposefully over-alarmist to get more leverage from the CEOs of funded companies.

  • Mixed metaphor

    I just made a new mash-up metaphor: Separate the meat from the chaff.

  • I can haz aspartame

    Sweet God this Diet Snapple is NASTEEE.

  • Expect Hiccups

    I’m starting the move to Movable Type in earnest so things might be a little disconnected over the next few days. Thanks!