AP vs. HuffingtonPost

You should watch this 18 minute video on Mitch Joel‘s blog on the future of Associated Press.  Let’s be honest, I have no idea whether the model Tom Curley suggested is going to work or not, neither do you.  It might very well turn out to be the future of journalism.  

However, it’s both alarming and [...]

911 call on shrimps

Here is an interestingstory, and I bet you get customers like that.  Maybe not to that extreme, but there has to be someone who complains, nags, and just won’t stop talking about how unsatified that one (just one) shopping experience she had with you…1 year ago. Someone I call the “precious whiner“.

And I bet you [...]

Defining Success

Before starting something, anything, you need a goal.  Without a destination in sight, all the vehicles in the world won’t help.  Regardless of what you do, my guess is that you want to be successful at it.

So what is your success…

First and foremost, my success is defined by me.  It is what I say it is, [...]

First, we’d have to care.

The music industry has been in trouble for a while.  Then there were newspapers, radio and magazines.  Now before you start running around and yelling that “the Internet is ruining our business“, let’s take a minute and answer the more obvious question, or in this case, a statement you might really ought to think about for [...]

Frequent visitors

Some questions on how you might want to consider changing the way you treat your website traffic:
 
- How are you differentiating between the frequent visitors vs. first time visitors?  Are they both getting what they want and deserve?
 
- How are you differentiating between the visitors who type in your domain name in the browsers vs. those [...]

“Lost Generation”

This 1 minute 44 second clip on YouTube is amazing; it generated over 5 million hits.

It came from a 2006 Argentinian political advertisement, “Truth“, and scored 2nd in the AARP U@50 Challenge to “When I [...]

Seldom the technology, always the people

Great websites are made by great organizations which are run by great people.  The key word: people.

Internet won’t save or change your business.  It will, however, amplify your growth or decline. Remarkable businesses pass through this medium faster than ever, almost as quickly as the average ones sink.  Zappos’ success is made by their people, not [...]

Checklist for a great website

When someone is visiting your website…

Is he getting what he is looking for?
On top of what he is looking for, are you offering him things he would want but didn’t think of in the first place?  (remember, you are the expert!)
If he has a question, will it be answered? If so, how quickly?
Are you offering enough so that [...]

“In China, Cigarettes are GOOD for You!”

You can read the full story here.  Here is a quote:

“Cigarettes, according to China’s tobacco authorities, are an excellent way to prevent ulcers. They also reduce the risk of Parkinson’s disease, relieve schizophrenia, boost your brain cells, speed up your thinking, improve your reactions and increase your working efficiency.”

The Internet is full of data.  Make an [...]

Buttons, links, and forms

Web pages are generally made of only four things: buttons, links, forms and contents. You could have a great website with just these.

Contents are far more important than the others, combined.  If you have unique, new, and relevant content for a visitor, she is more likely to bear with the poor design of your site; more [...]

Building a successful website

The number one rule of building a great website today is: become number one in your market, or disappear.

…okay, maybe get in the top 3 will do, but still, you want to be number one in your market place. Showing up on page number 5 of a Google search is worthless.  In fact, you are probably better [...]

The 4 C’s of Internet Marketing

• Control, or lack thereof – realize that you don’t have control anymore.  Any customer is capable of writing a newspaper(blog), hosting a radio show(podcast), or producing a TV series(Youtube).  They get to choose what they want to say, whenever, wherever and however, and best of all, they are also capable of reaching more audiences than [...]

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