Why Content is No Longer King (And Who’s Taking His Place)

On October 22, 2009

Why Content is No Longer King (And Who’s Taking His Place)

Since the very first blog, written around an ancient campfire somewhere in the moist foothills of Seattle, content has been crowned the undisputed king. The king ruled over all that was written, be they blogs, articles, ads, fiction, or a killer love letter. All that was copy sat at the feet of the [...]
On October 22, 2009

Wanna Sell More? Think with Better Words!

Use lousy words to describe what you experience and you're programming yourself to produce lousy results.  Use powerful words to describe those same experiences and you're programming yourself to be more successful. Earlier this week, I gave some basic advice about rejection in "Personal Rejection is an Illusion."  That advice was so basic that I almost didn't post it.  Even so, some readers thought the post was just some sort of word game.  Behold: "I feel that you were circling around the term rejection and trying to convince us that it doesn't exist. What you say later in the anecdote about the girl confirms rejection, and with the recruiter, it is rejection because you were not chosen." (comment by Bob...
On October 22, 2009

#GrowSmartBiz Video : Panel 3: Staying Ahead in the Current Economy

This was originally posted on GrowSmartBusiness.com and is from the GrowSmartBiz Conference held September 29, 2009: Christine Banning from SCORE gave a great presentation on the current economy in the afternoon of the #GrowsmartBiz conference. Check it out below: – Christine Banning is VP of Marketing and Communications at SCORE Association and is a marketing expert. She leads [...]
On October 22, 2009

Never Send Gmail to the Wrong Recipient Again

Especially embarrassing: Sending email to the wrong person. Or leaving an important recipient off the TO line. Thankfully, there are settings to prevent both of these problems in Gmail.
On October 22, 2009

Employers Need to be Grown-Up About Retirement

For many, the old (no pun intended) adage -- Out with the old and in with the new -- perfectly summarises the attitude that many employers hold towards their older workers. Britain, it seems, has an issue when it comes to age. An increase in life expectancy during the last 60 years, has left the UK with an ageing population and, by extension, an ageing workforce. This has not stopped an apparent culture of institutional ageism in many workplaces. New research may point to a change this perception. A joint study carried out by the "Institute for Employment Studies" and the "Policy Studies Institute" into the attitudes of management towards older staff members found a large proportion claimed they...
On October 22, 2009

Counting on Dollars: Backing a Loser?

About half the FTSE 100 companies, by value, now report their accounts in US dollars, not pounds. But with the greenback losing its international status, have they chosen the wrong currency? The problem is not whether the dollar is currently strong or weak -- though that does affect UK shareholders -- but whether it is still the world's international currency of choice. As a global common denominator, the dollar is in decline.  Its loss has been the euro's gain. Although created only a decade ago, the European single currency is now an established medium of exchange, second only to the dollar in trading volumes. Yet while UK companies as diverse as AstraZeneca, BP, Experian, HSBC and Smith & Nephew add...
On October 22, 2009

The Asian E-Commerce Opportunity

For many in the West, Asia is viewed as a large monolithic geographic area with some slight differences among regions. However, a more-informed understanding is that there are several market segments, and an understanding of some of the key differences between segments is valuable to developing effective market strategies.
On October 22, 2009

Tempering the Supply Chain With Better BI

Many organizations in the consumer packaged goods industry are experiencing a trade-off between the benefit of high product volume sales coming at the expense of extreme data complexity. At the same time, these companies struggle to maintain open lines of communication with their retail customers and distributors in order to better manage the upstream flow of product.
On October 22, 2009

Looking for Some Mafia Wars Experts

Once in a while a reader emails me asking if I could write a post or two talking about my business, the strategies I am currently using and the like. Usually I prefer to keep these things private, but once in a while I will update you guys on my where abouts.


Original Post: Looking for Some Mafia Wars Experts