From the category archives:

I Don’t Get It

Why WordPress Is The Absolute Best Platform For Your Membership Site

January 28, 2010

NOTE: WordPress is right for you, only if you want to actually launch your membership site some day, make money from your site, and do not wish to spend an insane amount of time creating and maintaining it, and only if you do not wish to spend hundreds (or thousands) of dollars outsourcing the creation [...]

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How To Destroy A Brand In 30 Seconds

November 8, 2009

I’ve been a fan of Guy Kawasaki for a while now. Not a fan-boi type, but still admired him enough to call myself a “fan”. I follow him on Twitter, read his blog occasionally, and love to watch his videos as he is a great presenter and speaker who adds a lot of humor and [...]

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What Would Microsoft Do?

September 24, 2009

Here’s something I completely forgot to add to my earlier post about “What Would – – – – Do?“… Yes, I do occasionally think “What Would Microsoft Do?“. And then of course, I do EXACTLY the OPPOSITE – especially when it comes to the quality of their products, their marketing, and their branding (or lack [...]

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Saving Money vs. Making Money

May 12, 2009

I have a friend whose main purpose in life is to find deals and bargains and cut costs. He once spent several weeks filling out an insane number of really long forms and processing rebate information, for a mail-in rebate promotion for a laptop. And he purchased that crappy, low-end laptop because that was the [...]

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My Chat With A (Rather Clueless) Google AdWords Support Specialist

January 3, 2008

My question was very simple: I wanted to know how I could promote products using CPA (Cost Per Action) on the Google Network and allow publishers who have access to “AdSense Referrals” to promote my products by placing a piece of code on their web sites, and when someone clicked over to my web site [...]

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XM Radio, Sirius announce merger

February 20, 2007

So is this the start of yet another monopoly? Why hasn’t anyone else gotten into this? It’s not like there are major infrastructure setup pains involved – just buy a darn satellite and start broadcasting – it’s not like it’s hard to do for someone with a lot of cash and people – something that [...]

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A Day In The Life Of Steve Ballmer

February 5, 2007

Check out Steve Ballmer’s modest office. What is it with corporate executives playing golf within the office? Are you somehow cool for being unprofessional and playing a game while someone’s trying to talk business with you? I just don’t get it. Let me know if you do. – Ravi Jayagopal / LinkOverLoad.com

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