“Stay on message” or “What is our messaging” are tired old marketing phrases. Spending a lot of time crafting the first paragraph of your boilerplate company description, or for your website or press release is boring stuff. I’ve been thinking more about Jordan’s Furniture and other experiences that make me want to buy one thing over another. I stick to a...

For the past 5 years I’ve had a major shift in my philosophy towards work and education. Forget being well-rounded – find one thing and do it better than anyone else. I was excited to see that Seth Godin has a new book coming out and a blog to go with it. If you are a fan, check out The Dip. Popularity: unranked [?]

It’s Sunday and that means a new M Show… I ran into my first Wiki Spam today. That’s my brainbuster – Spiki Here’s why you should listen to the show: (Go there now) M Show 142 – Massive, Clothes, Racing Against the Clock Intro – Julien Smith from In Over Your Head News: Massive Running the Game Time to look like The Economist L.L. Bean – Web...

Today was one of those days where I had no events running so I was able to try and tame the paper snowbanks that had built up around my desk. I have a bad habit from a prior startup of just throwing invoices in the trash until I get a personal call or notice. Every day I say a prayer of thanks that I’m no longer in an environment like that (and of course M Show Productions, LLC pays...

We ran another webinar today and there’s an interesting new feature. GoToWebinar can tell if the participant’s window is active or not. In other words, if someone is watching the webinar and they switch to another window (to surf the web or check email). A flag shows up on the presenter’s window and there’s an overall score for the percentage of people that are...

Back in the dark ages (about 5 years ago), designers would still worry about 800×600 screen size. My latest logs show that’s about 2% of my traffic. We’re blowin’ it out, and that means room for Revver – hello higher quality video! Popularity: 1% [?]

After literally months of struggling we finally managed to get the SalesForce.com / Google integration going. I’m definitely geeking out, but how cool is it to look at a closed deal and say “one year ago you searched for this specific term, we paid $2.75 for that click and it turned into a 6-figure deal”. Lots of cool stuff, now all we need is for some data to pile up. In...

Last week I had heard some rumblings about Google continuing to use individual search history to influence results. There are differing opinions on this but I am all for it. If, after months of searching, Google realizes that I can’t speak spanish, then it would be great if I never had to see any results in spanish. But this begs the question: What will SEO vendors do when there are no...

Seth Godin had a great post last week about performing a show as part of business. It reminded me of the profound advice up on the wall at my local Jordan’s Furniture - “There’s no business that’s not show business” Popularity: 1% [?]

Normally this would be my normal Sunday plug for the latest M Show (go listen to it, or better yet – subscribe!), but while tagging the file I found something cool in the newest version of iTunes. You can now create separate tags such as Artist and Album for sorting in iTunes. You need to be a bit of a compulsive freak or have a huge music library to have seen the need for this...