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Is Your Business All About the Product? Or the People?
There is a major shift in business focus that is under way. Digital media has forced businesses to change. Dramatically.
Continue readingYou Can't Pay Me To Do That
At what price integrity? There was book on the future of advertising (or media… or something) that was being offered
Continue readingThe New Electricity
You can’t click a trackpad without seeing some kind of chart that compares the growth of the Internet and mobile
Continue readingAre Startups The Future Of Media?
Who holds the future of media in their hands? If you take a serious look at the media world, there
Continue readingIn The Age Of (Digital) Anxiety
Are you stressing out? In a world of global economic instability, a deplorable job market, the digitization of everything, Occupy
Continue readingThe Internet Could Be Closed For Business
Once upon a time… It wasn’t too long ago that many media pundits felt that the Internet would tip the
Continue readingIs Social Media Too Good To Be True?
Has the Internet turned into a wasteland of hollow ideas and groupthink? Is it possible that in a day and
Continue readingFacebook Should Not Be Treated like Other Media
What is Facebook? It seems like an easy enough question to answer, doesn’t it? If you ask the co-founder, chairman
Continue readingBuilding Loyalty Beyond Reason
It seemed like everything changed in business overnight. At one, unique moment in time, we shifted from a world where
Continue readingCan Breastfeeding Save Time Magazine?
When was the last time you discussed Time Magazine around the dinner table? I found myself giving a dissertation on
Continue readingThis Is Being Recorded… By You
The art of self-tracking. It was one thing to know where I was going. It was a totally different experience
Continue readingThe Sound And The Hurry Of Podcasting
It’s funny how things fall together. I found out that Julie Burstein, the author of Spark – How Creativity Works
Continue readingThe Next Billion-Dollar Startup
The truth about Instagram. There wasn’t a building high enough for me to jump off of when I first heard
Continue readingSharing Is Caring (And Selling)
What makes media a social media? There’s a long-standing answer to this question. For some, it seems both obvious and
Continue readingThe Church And State Of Advertising
Are marketers poisoning the well? When I first started publishing music magazines back in the nineties, I kept running into
Continue readingThe E-commerce Tipping Point
The business of selling is about to get a whole lot more interesting. When you think about e-commerce, how does
Continue readingThe Start-Up Of You
Welcome to Generation Flux. The January 2012 cover story of Fast Company magazine was all about Generation Flux. You’ve head
Continue readingAre Those Robots or People Clicking on Your Site?
The robots have landed. It should come as no surprise to you that some of the traffic to your websites
Continue readingRise Of The Indie Brand
The art of marketing is a fascinating beast. Last week, I had the pleasure of delivering the opening keynote address
Continue readingTurn Off, Tune Out, Drop In
Is your head buried in your lap? After attending the TED 2012 conference in Long Beach, California last week, I
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