Stuff you should know, stuff I should remember.

Forbes magazine has recommended Blogwild as part of their book club Perfect for small businesses and nonprofits, this book is a funny, fast-results guide to business blogging.

Andrea works on correlating a great sex life with a great business: What do you think the correlation is? Great sex => Physical looseness => ‘Ease’ier approach to business (less stress, anxiety, struggle) => Better Results? Or maybe it’s more like: Fabulous day of sales => Celebratory glass of wine + a nice stint of […]

Put up. Or shut up. http://GOblogwild.com/book45/

Have you been paying attention to Rich Schefren’s roll-out of his coaching program? If not you are missing a complete case study in how to create anticipation, stoke demand, deliver sales and keep customers begging for more. Check his blog for the goods.

This is just nasty. It’s a quasi-social-networking site for teens designed to allow them to “express their individuality,” yet it screens all content, tells parents their kids have joined and forbids users to e-mail one another. Oh, and it calls users “hubsters” — a twist on hipsters that proves just how painfully uncool it is […]

I was emailed a request for an interview with a newsletter on the topic of web traffic. I browsed the site – one of those super-loud salespage sites with jagged image editing and too many exclamation points. The testimonials included many internet marketing notables and one that stuck out. I emailed this marketing expert if […]

(via Blogads blog) CBS Corp. is enlisting eggs in its scramble to attract viewers. The CBS logo and slogans promoting the TV network and its series will appear along with coded expiration dates on eggs sold by grocers — another promotional measure in the competitive world of television. More than 35 million eggs will be […]

You’ve seen the commercials for The Secret movie. It is polished to a Da Vinci Code paranoid sheen positing that there’s a big secret suppressed throughout history that the smart and powerful have used to get ahead and you are ignorant of this secret that has helped everybody but you and you are doomed to […]

I just posted this at the Duct Tape blogging blog: J writes: Do you ever find that something you wrote in your ranty personal blog has negative impact on your professional career? This is a tough one and I’d have to say no – so far. The day my dad discovered my blog – ah, […]

Mark Mumford for at the San Francisco Gate writes how using Windows is like a really really bad hookup: It is, of course, the same old story, the same old come-on, Win once again acting all smooth and charming but completely unable to avoid that world-famous sheen of BS propaganda, coupled with a smell that’s […]