Covey interview
Friday, February 29th, 2008Stephen Covey speaks to the Zen Habits blog. It will be interesting to see how his social network (currently in beta) does.
Archive for February, 2008
Stephen Covey speaks to the Zen Habits blog. It will be interesting to see how his social network (currently in beta) does.
A workable RFP process
Thursday, February 28th, 2008A post over at Enter Content Here called The RFP is Dead! Long Live the RFP! talks about the weaknesses of the traditional RFP process. Everyone has a different take on this, but the way I approach it is this: send me your RFP, and I'll respond. If ...
RIP, William F. Buckley
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008Wow. What a career. We'll miss you, Mr. Buckley.
Clients who are unhappy from the start
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008Jeremy's advice: send them to someone else. There's a tendency that some people have to want to jump in and save the day; to show them how much better you are than the losers they hired before. You're better off passing on this business in reality; it's going to be ...
near e-commerce
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008If you don't have a shopping cart but are still using your website for marketing, elementfusion.com has some design principles for your site.
Marketing classical music
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008This morning, NPR's Morning Edition did a story about British violinist Tasmin Little, who is releasing her latest CD free on the Internet and doing a series of performances in non-traditional classical music venues, such as factories, airports and shopping malls. It's all in an effort ...
Freelancing report released by FreeLanceSwitch.com
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008A detailed report ($3 or more donation) on the state of freelancing was just released by the guys over at freelanceswitch.com. Key take-aways were: Start freelancing, be happy: 89% of freelancers report being happier since starting freelancing. Referrals are huge: For all categories of freelancers, the number one source of new ...
MMM: Be encouraged! And encourage!
Monday, February 25th, 2008I've written before about how important I think it is to provide encouragement to the people around you - your staff, your supervisor, your clients, your friends and family. Everyone needs encouragement! Blogger Dave Cheong wrote a great post on the topic of providing encouragement that I commend to you.
Follow up on abandoned carts?
Sunday, February 24th, 2008There's some question as to whether cart owners should "follow up" with people who have registered and added items to their cart but failed to checkout. This shopper responds with a big fat no! (and a hilarious graphic to boot). My personal opinion is that since it's ...
A celebration of GTD
Saturday, February 23rd, 2008After a short break to tend to his new baby daughter, Merlin Mann is back and hard at it, talking up GTD.
