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Remarkable

Are You Keeping A Tab On Your Competitors – and Yourself?

August 4, 2008

Quite frequently, I am reminded of how we take certain things for granted, while it could be something completely new/interesting/educating/shocking for someone else.
Using Google Alerts for competitive research is one such “thing”. During a chat with a friend the other day, I casually mentioned how I use Google Alerts to keep an eye on my [...]

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Meet the iPod Doctor

June 24, 2008

Awesome story.
Just goes to show that if you have the will, and the skill, and some creativity, you can make money pretty much doing anything at all!
Meet the iPod Doctor

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If I Had To Pick Just One Blog To Read…

January 19, 2008

If I had to pick just one blog, and could read only one blog for the rest of my life – including my own blog (the one you’re reading right now) – I would pick Seth Godin’s blog.
Seth’s blog is (hyperbole alert) amazing, educational, informative, remarkable, mind-blowing, extraordinary, purple, eye-opening and goose-pimple-raising good.
Seth’s books, his [...]

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Purple Shoe from Nike

January 9, 2008

It’s not really purple in color. But I did mean that it is Purple.
Why?
It’s because of the way it was successful in creating an entirely new industry of “athlete marketing” like never before. Because of how it created a frenzy among consumers. Because of the innovative ways Nike marketed it [for instance, they paid [...]

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How To Sell A $3,200 Product Using Free YouTube Videos

December 3, 2007

If you’ve ever wondered about the power of influence that videos – even free ones – can have in selling commercial products, look no further.
Recently, I was on the receiving end of this power, as I shelled out about $3,200 to buy a Yamaha Motif Keyboard – thanks(!) to two powerful videos on YouTube.
I’ve chronicled [...]

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Blog-o-Phobia: Fear of Criticism

November 27, 2007

I recently asked a very close non-blogger, never-blogged-before friend to start his own blog on my new multi-blog site, YehHaiIndia.com (driven by WordPress Mu – very cool software).
His immediate response was:
The problem with blogging is you need ideas and thoughts you want to write.
And you are assuming I have thoughts that are worth writing [...]

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GOOG-411 comes out of Beta

October 16, 2007

This has been around for a while now, but its coming out of beta (a.k.a Google Labs) means that Google is serious enough to support this going forward.
Here’s how it works:

Dial 1-800-GOOG-411 (800-4664-411)
Say where you’re calling from – City, State or Zip
Say what you’re looking for (Pizza delivery, from the video below)
GOOG-411 connects you with [...]

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Woot Sells Out – In Style

September 12, 2007

“The _____ swept down from the hills like a dark and hungry wind.
The first thing anyone would notice would be the _____, its long white hair flew wildly in the breeze generated by the two swinging katanas that had been enchanted to draw blood from anything, even lamp posts and cheese.
Raised in a [...]

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How To Display RSS Feeds On Your Site

December 27, 2006

If you know what a “blog” is, you probably already know what a “RSS Feed” is.
One of the best (not to forget, cheapest and fastest) ways to get free content for your web site, is to display a third-party RSS Feed. Every time the feed’s content changes, content on your web site automatically changes, thus [...]

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What is Will?

July 8, 2006

[Update on 09/19/2009: See the video that I just found on YouTube at the end...]

Original Post from 07/08/2006…

Everytime you are ready to give up, every time you think:

I am too tired right now…
I am too sleepy right now…
I am too hungry right now…
I am not feeling too well…
I don’t have the strength…
I don’t have the [...]

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