One of the common questions asked around the internet is whether now is a good time to start a blog and if so, how do you build and expand it? Wayne Sutton wrote about the topic yesterday referencing a conversation we had at the beginning of the year. How do blogs and social media sites [...]
One of my clients had a problem and he asked for my advice. Hearing the problem and having an understanding of his relationship with some of his employees, I came up with a plan. Twisted, but effective.
One of his employees, who he is friendly with, needed work done on a floor in the house. The [...]
People start new businesses everyday. Online ventures are easy and cheap to start. Cheap many times translates to “I don’t have to put a lot of thought into this”. Let’s be real, ok? When the internet was more expensive to access people thought out their plans more before hopping online. The by the minute access [...]
Must be nice, sitting on a throne throwing stones at everyone. I’m talking about Uncov. It’s been noted they have a start-up they are not tagging as Web 2.0 called Persai (gotta start distancing yourself from the Web 2.0 term, remember?). What is Persai? Who knows? At first I thought it was a killer [...]
Am I the only one who is not excited about Yahoo’s new move: enhanced behavioral targeting for ads?
For instance, a person who searches for information on cars is likely to be sent an auto ad, Coleman said.
Traditionally, Yahoo’s advertising targeting have focused on customer demographics or geographic location instead of behavior.
Advertisers will pay more for [...]
It seems Match.com is being sued by a man who claims Match.com is paying employees to go on fake dates. I have to admit, every time I hear Match.com I think of Chris and Ponzi who I “think” met through Match.com and are happy as long as they aren’t in Hawaii. I personally don’t see [...]
A friend of mine asked me why I don’t “get into” the connect services. You know like Yahoo, Hi5, LinkedIn – those types of services where I am connected to who I know and people can view who I know and contact who I know…those types of services. Nope, not into them. Why…besides it’s none [...]
USA Today has an article about how blogging can get an employee fired. It’s old news of course but it amazes me how people lack common sense and forethought, hence it needs repeating.
They mention Peter Whitney who was fired for his blog:
Like a growing number of employees, Peter Whitney decided to launch a blog on [...]
Robert Scoble responded to my post about embarrassing yourself. His comments are down so I’m going to post about them here, with confidence he’ll find this post.
I agree 100% about getting to know a blogger and a personal blog is a good way to do that. However a business blog can do this [...]
