From the monthly archives:

April 2007

What I love about Ted…

April 16, 2007 Personal

The Ted conference every year provides some of the most inspirational speakers ever. For instance, you’ve got to check out Majora Carter:

If that doesn’t get your blood pumping, you might want to check your pulse.
So why won’t they let me embed Seth Godin’s speech?

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Seth and the small business website…

April 15, 2007 E-commerce

One of the problems with making my living from interactive marketing and running websites is that it looks, on its surface, simple. Most folks have seen enough websites to have an opinion about what makes a website work and what doesn’t. Often, they’re right. Given the extraordinary growth of the web over [...]

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Spring break…

April 8, 2007 Personal

I’m going to channel my inner Tim Ferriss over the next week, as the family and I are taking some long-overdue vacation. I’ll check my email once every day or so for the next week and may update my blog less than that. For those who celebrate, Happy Easter and I’ll see you [...]

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Guy Kawasaki…

April 6, 2007 Business

I had a chance to see Guy Kawasaki keynote a conference where I was also speaking yesterday. If you ever get the chance to see him present, do. If nothing else, you’ll learn a good deal about how to give an impactful presentation.
Two brief introductions are here and here

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Change everything. Really…

April 5, 2007 analytics

Google announced a new multivariate testing tool the other day, allowing marketers to test different
copy, graphics, layout, what-have-you on their landing pages. For free. Amazing. While ignoring, for a minute, the obvious questions as to how willing we are to provide Google this much information about our businesses – I doubt Yahoo [...]

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Going mobile…

April 1, 2007 Mobile

I read Web Worker Daily pretty regularly. I think it provides fascinating insight into where we’re heading as both an online and general business community. But “where we’re heading” takes on a somewhat different meaning based on recent news. For instance, Richard MacManus describes the latest webtop service available, while others note [...]

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