Source: flickr.com via Greg on Pinterest For a couple of weeks now I’ve been hearing about Pinterest. The references have run the gamut from fawning tech portrayals of the service (“Fastest to 10 million users in history”) to shares from…
I’m writing this post on a timer. I am doing this as part of a practice suggested by Jason Womack in “Your Best Just got Better” – the basic idea is to measure what you do so that you can…
Build Customer Satisfaction by Delivering Rapidly – Agile Marketing Principle #1 What do your customers ask for (either from a product or product marketing perspective?) Chances are, it’s not always what they need. In this second post on Agile Marketing,…
HOW TO: Be a Tourist in Your Own Town I went to the Redmond Derby Days parade today and realized something important. Not only do I love parades (they are fun because you see things like the scene above, and you definitely…
I meet a lot of people who are interested in segmenting their social graphs — keeping Facebook for friends, Twitter for fun, and keeping business contacts, well, focused on business — and they are missing something. It’s Too Hard It’s…
How do you find you measure the “truth” in News? More and more these days, we tend to read the types of news, follow news aggregators, or friend or follow people on social networks with whom we agree. While this…
I’ve been trying to decide which network-killing box to use when I want to watch non-movie TV (for movies, I have Netflix) and I’ve mostly been thinking about buying either a Google TV box, a Mac Mini, or a Roku…
Joseph Pine, in this 2004 Ted Talk on what customers want, discusses the progression of economic value from commodity > service > customized service. He talks about how man-made services are both “authentic” (real, experienced experiences) and “manufactured” (created with…
Dear Comcast (and other providers): it’s time to change your model. Creative destruction is the way Cable companies can become more than a mere pipe to the Internet. Wikipedia defines this term, first coined by philosopher Joseph Schumpeter, by stating:…
