So tonight the Boston Niketown Running Club is having a special event for the 10th Anniversary of the store. The running club has been around for almost as long, and I’ve logged close to 400 miles with them, even though I’ve only been 2 or 3 times in the past 3 years. The running club is another example of excellent marketing. Wednesdays just before 7 people meet and go out in...

My first “pure” marketing job was with a company called DCI, they ran a number of very successful tech trade shows such as Data Warehouse World, and one of the biggest SFA (Sales Force Automation) shows out there. It was a good business model, young people came in at entry level pay grades and followed a proven system to develop, promote and run the conferences. Everyone started...

As the move gets closer I continue to unload stuff. If you need a cafe table or a corner bookcase, I can hook you up. I’m also getting rid of a Coach 3×5 card jotter for all you old school moleskein types. And don’t forget to listen to America’s Favorite Podcast – The New M Show Popularity: 1%...

I took a bunch of pictures over the 4th and uploaded them to Flickr and noticed a button that said “Make Stuff” when I looked at my photoset. This took me to a site called QOOP (no idea how the hell to pronounce it). That let me put together a book of 49 shots for around $25. I really like the way it came out, the book is 5×7 and the pages are full bleed (there’s no...

For the first time ever (in more than 2 years) I actually lost a podcast. I’ve never had my batteries run out on my digital recorder and rather than let it do its own shutdown I interrupted it and lost the file. To make the disaster story even better, it was a solo fill-in Marketing Over Coffee, b/c Christopher Penn’s flights were screwed up. I need to go to bed so I am bailing...

Just not enough time in the day… Lots of cool stuff going on, not the least of which was WebInno 13 which was a packed house. More on that tomorrow after I’ve had some sleep, but some of the non-tech highlights included getting some microphone wisdom from David Tames, finally getting to meet Bahlactus (aka Clarence) in person (and forgetting to mention that I laid the smackdown...

The problem is that for some reason, just because MS-Word is so central to most business writing, I have this feeling that it should be immune to code bloat and feature creep. The latest version is what, something like Word 14.0? Why did it take me a half hour to get bullets that would show up properly when I output to a PDF? It just strikes me as not possible that I would have to layout my...

Taking it easy through Thursday but you can still check out today’s M Show, and I’ll have some Flickr Pics up later today. Popularity: 1% [?]