John Jantsch (of Duct Tape Marketing fame) recently posted a blog entry about how it’s sometimes necessary to “burn your boats” in order to force yourself into forward motion. The concept is borrowed from a legend about a great military leader who landed his ships on an enemy shore and demonstrated to his troops that […]
The most recent Guerrilla Marketing email bulletin has Jay and Amy Levinson sharing the most important words in Human Relations: The six most important words in business: “I admit that I was wrong.” The five most important words in business: “You did a great job.” The four most important words in business: “What do you […]
I’m sure you’ve heard the phrase “Curiosity killed the cat” it’s probably one of the more morbid cliches out there. Imagine, curiosity actually proving fatal to felines. Meee-OW! The phrase doesn’t actually spell out the fact that it was the cat’s own curiosity that did him in. Perhaps it is a human’s curiosity that puts […]
Ben Yoskovitz has created a worthwhile group writing meme to inspire the collection of personal productivity secrets. Since I was ‘tagged’ by my friend Jason Kotecki (he’s the guy with the cure for Adultitis), here are three of my personal productivity secrets… #1.) The Most Productive Thing PossibleThis is one of my oldest techniques, adopted […]
You may be familiar with the Threadless.com website, but do you know anything in regard to the guiding principles that drive its leaders? Here’s what I knew about the website: Threadless.com is a t-shirt website that accepts designs from the public, and then takes votes on each accepted submission, allowing their community to decide which […]
At first glance the relationship seems to make sense, but then you notice the slimy trail of introducing the concept of using credit to a younger audience and it makes you throw-up a little in your mouth. The deal struck between Visa and Hasbro to introduce their credit cards into the worlds of ‘Monopoly‘ and […]
AT&T sued NASCAR Friday after the motor sports monster would not let it replace the Cingular logo on Jeff Burton’s race car with new AT&T artwork. Burton’s #31 car is sponsored by Cingular, but AT&T took full ownership of Cingular as part of its recent BellSouth merger and has made no secret of its plans […]