The latest M Show is up and it includes a chat with Joseph Jaffe, fresh off his campaign to run his latest book Join the Conversation up the Amazon charts. And run it did, getting as high as #26 on the overall charts and #1 in Marketing. Check out the business podcast here, including a link if you’d like to check out the book. Bottom of the 8th! Go Sox! Popularity: 1%...

It’s the weekend so I’m free to write a geek post after another week of marketing. I was lucky enough to skip out of work for a few hours and catch a presentation from Jeff Hoffman of Basho Strategies. He’s a world class presenter and the best salesman that I have ever met, he understands the dynamics of the deal and I would recommend him for anyone that needs a speaker for...

As the Sales Kickoff continues I am again reminded of the value of drinking. Social media does an excellent job at connecting people who have similar interests, but ultimately there’s no substitute for face-to-face conversation. The degree and depth of conversation can be accelerated rapidly with some social lubricant. I also saw this in effect last night at the Blogger Dinner EMC...

Yes, it’s time for one of the most honorably sales traditions (second only to President’s Club), the Sales Kickoff. Q4 is on, time to lock down the conference rooms and drink at night… Popularity: 1% [?]

Well, it seem like the domain name change has propagated in a flash (translation – it looks like everything is working properly). So, what was that all about last week? The short version was to improve my Google Ranking. Read on if you are into Search Engine Optimization (SEO), or we’ll see you at the next post! I originally created The M Show and set up a domain name, and I rent...

I don’t know if any other industries use this phrase, but it’s very common in software to talk about “Eating Your Own Dogfood” – in other words: Using the products that you make. You’d think this is basic “support the home team” kind of thing, but it doesn’t always happen, and when the word gets out it is usually a big PR problem. Now you...

It’s so powerful that you only have to read step 1. I’ve been fortunate enough (if you want to call it that), to have now spent more that 10 years doing website redesigns. There have been perhaps 7 times during my career where I’ve considering stabbing someone in the throat with my pen to stop the insanity during a meeting, and 5 of those were during website-by-committee...

It appears that monkeying with the domain hasn’t broken anything… I’m off to the Doug Flutie 5k today, and will be rolling out The M Show after that. Enjoy the weekend! Popularity: 1% [?]

I’m going to be pulling a stunt to see if I can improve my Google ranking, if I screw it up I might mess up the domain name for a while. If you are a fan and you notice that the site is down please drop me a line, if I pull off the stunt I’ll explain everything when I’m done. Stand back as Evel Knievel gets ready to jump the canyon… Update: Ok, I’ve made some...

Let the sheep obey, you can come hang out with the cool kids. Check out the best marketing podcast, your weekly shot of Web X+1. Popularity: 1% [?]