Archive for February, 2009

Answers To Questions Round 18

Answers To Questions Round 18 This is by far the lamest bunch of questions I have ever got… lots of repeats and lots of what if tomorrow you started over….. I took a stab at it… I always find it funny that people ask the “if you had to start tomorrow” when it takes me longer to answer the question t..

Living the dream

Living the dream More and more of us dream of escaping the rat race - last week it emerged 34,000 people had applied for a single job on an Australian island.

Get Useful Tips About Why Many Affiliates Dont Make Enough Money

Get Useful Tips About Why Many Affiliates Dont Make Enough Money A lot people with business blood in their veins recognise the crucial purpose of affiliate marketing in e-commerce. And conducting affiliate marketing appears like a comparatively easy technique that even an individual without a masters degree in business can do it. Affiliate marketing in all likeli…

A story

A story This story keeps roaming through my brain.  We are living in such strange times.  I spent last night with a bunch of bankers and spoke at length with a guy who works at Fannie Mae.  Conversation was fascinating on many levels.  There is a part of me that every time I sit down with someone new, p…

Review: The Future of the Internet and How To Stop It by Jonathan Zittrain

Review: The Future of the Internet and How To Stop It by Jonathan Zittrain The New York Times recently asked: Do We Need a New Internet?: At Stanford, where the software protocols for original Internet were designed, researchers are creating a system to make it possible to slide a more advanced network quietly underneath today’s Internet. By the end of the summer it will…

How The Social Media Promotes Your Business

How The Social Media Promotes Your Business If you’ve spent much time on the Internet, you have probably heard the buzz about social media and social media marketing.

Volkswagen Cirencester: Making fake marketing offers like this SUCKS

Volkswagen Cirencester: Making fake marketing offers like this SUCKS My wife plonked a letter in my lap today that she had received from Leo Lucey, Sales Manager at VW Northfield Cirencester. This is what it said (I’ve taken appropriate excerpts from the letter): It starts “We want your Golf” Great, this has grabbed our attention as it should do. Next: “It is not oft…

Hope For The Newspaper Industry?

Hope For The Newspaper Industry? Everyone realizes that the newspaper industry is in trouble. Many people are receiving news on line for free as opposed to purchasing newspapers

James Quinn - The Great Awakening: Boomers, Your Crisis Has Arrived

James Quinn - The Great Awakening: Boomers, Your Crisis Has Arrived [image source] Very interesting article on the Fourth Turning , the idea that about every 80 to 100 years, culture goes through a radical reinvention of itself - the time-frame is about every four generations. According to this model,we’re due to be in the midst of a change right now. Sounds about r..

Microsoft + Yahoo Still Doesn’t Make Sense

Microsoft + Yahoo Still Doesn’t Make Sense There are, broadly speaking, two kinds of business deals: The kind that gets done because it’s clearly a good idea, and the kind that’s done because it’s the best idea anyone could come up with. The difference, of course, is that the latter usually ends up creating a mess.