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Stop Making People Lie

Posted by on Mar 4, 2012 in Biz, Blog, marketing | 0 comments

Seth Godin is on to something with his latest post, “Why Lie?”  Seth’s spends a lot of time dealing with what happens...

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Why the B2B Sales Model is Broken

Posted by on Sep 13, 2011 in Blog, marketing | 0 comments

I spent the last week in Portland at Djangocon, which is a conference for people who are making really cool web apps with a toolkit called Django. I haven't been surrounded by as many really, really smart people since Nuclear Power School in the US Navy. One of the presenters, Brad Fitzpatrick, casually mentioned his disdain for dealing with

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The LinkedIn Secret – Part 1

Posted by on Jul 8, 2011 in Blog, linkedin, marketing | 0 comments

I get nearly all of my business from LinkedIn. I figure since others have helped me learn to use LinkedIn for free, I’ll skip...

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Selling Products With High Failure Rates

Posted by on Jun 11, 2011 in Blog, IT, marketing | 0 comments

Ever notice how software integrators and consultants claim insanely high failure rates for the very expensive products they sell: CRM...

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Avoid the Suck Feature

Posted by on Jun 5, 2011 in Blog, marketing | 0 comments

When it comes to product design there is one thing you can do to cripple your product in the marketplace, destroy your brand, anger your...

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Beautiful and Confusing Web Design

Posted by on Apr 25, 2011 in Blog, marketing, Web Design | 0 comments

I sat through a web design working session a couple of weeks ago that is still stuck in my craw. After a few hours of describing a modern,...

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