I was at a talk last week in which the speaker insisted that the biggest error a project manager could make was tracking percent complete. “Don’t track percent complete – track estimate to completion” was his advice. Interesting! Arguably this forces more rigorous thinking about what really has to be done to put the project to bed.
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When I wrote the Dymo Label Printing for Zen Cart contribution I said I’d add support for Firefox when time allowed. Well, I finally got to it last week. If you’re a Dymo Labelwriter owner, check it out. And if you aren’t, buy one! It’s not for nothing that the saying “Dymo saves you time-o” has been passed from generation to generation.
Take a look at what Ian Lure is saying in Conversation Marketing. Although it was written for people in the ad game, most of these points apply to a wide range of small e-businesses. My personal favorite was
Yes, you are worth whatever you charge! Probably more.
The links in the article were fun too. My favorite was his retrospective on David Ogilvy.
Here’s Clifford Stohl explaining why e-commerce will never work back in 1995:
Then there’s cyberbusiness. We’re promised instant catalog shopping–just point and click for great deals. We’ll order airline tickets over the network, make restaurant reservations and negotiate sales contracts. Stores will become obsolete. So how come my local mall does more business in an afternoon than the entire Internet handles in a month? Even if there were a trustworthy way to send money over the Internet–which there isn’t–the network is missing a most essential ingredient of capitalism: salespeople.
Yes, what could be better than a salesperson hovering over you anxiously awaiting their commission. 
What a wonderful voice. And such great subject matter.
Here’s China’s Hu Jintao:
Here’s North Korea’s Kim Jong Il:
and finally, here’s VietNam’s own Nguyen Tan Dung
Oh sure, they’re murderous sociopaths – but will you look at that hair!
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