Always Have Something To Say

“If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.” Sometimes I come across old adages like this and can’t help but call bullpucky. How much does this apply? Yesterday, I was at the store and we had a customer come in to ask for a World of Warcraft time card. My [...]

Service vs Customer Service

I’ve had a day to think about it, as have some others, and I’m unsure what to think of Seth’s new toy. I left Squidoo after it was apparently penalised by Google – I can do all of the same things it can do through WordPress anyway, with enough pages and plugins. But Squidoo provided [...]

Convergance and Blogs

The first three blog posts I read this morning are all about problems with scaling public image. Is there a trend I’m missing, somewhere? Ok, example: Chris Brogan, Chewbacca of Marketing – “How Frameworks Improve Your Business Thinking” Mitch Joel, Han Solo of Marketing – “The Irresponsible Marketer” Seth Godin, perhaps Yoda? – “Launching Brands [...]

Do All Your Own Stunts

When a Hollywood actor does an interview and says, with a straight face, that they trained for months, punished their bodies and learned new skills to bring you the best on-screen experience they possibly can by doing every scene featuring their character in a given movie, how much more do we respect them for it? [...]