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Archive for January, 2009

What do you owe your customers

Saturday, January 31st, 2009 Posted in Culture, Stuff | 2 Comments »

Imagine I was a butcher. A man walks in off the street and demands that I perform open-heart surgery on him. I try to explain that I don't do that ... Read more..

Four stages of a on-line service company

Monday, January 26th, 2009 Posted in Culture, Social Media, Technology | No Comments »

I was reading and commenting on a post by Scoble in which he rails on Facebook for bumping Joel Comm due to him having too many friends, fans, etc. which ... Read more..

Annoying little kids at the New York Times

Friday, January 23rd, 2009 Posted in Culture | No Comments »

[caption id="attachment_1024" align="alignright" width="150" caption="By: Ron Edmonds/Associated Press"][/caption]Today, the New York Times is "the annoying kid at the magic show shouting, 'I know how you did that trick!'" Why did you ... Read more..

Businesses that look small are huge, as long as they stick to the knitting

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 Posted in Brand Awareness, Culture | No Comments »

  [caption id="attachment_1012" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="They say this feeds fourteen people. We ate it using three."][/caption] Television adds ten pounds. It also add a few hundred square feet to a restaurant if ... Read more..

Write me a blog post and then we’ll talk

Monday, January 19th, 2009 Posted in Brand Awareness, Social Media, Stuff, soccer | 2 Comments »

I just came back from a trade show for the soccer industry. Since we provide a soccer tournament management system to teams and tournaments with our TourneyCentral product, all ... Read more..

Design and beauty matter

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009 Posted in Culture, Social Media, Stuff, Technology | 1 Comment »

A couple days ago, I wrote that Seth Godin is a big fat idiot. I still stand by my opinions for the topic that he flung out there with reckless ... Read more..

Seth Godin is a big fat idiot

Sunday, January 11th, 2009 Posted in Brand Awareness, Culture, Social Media, Stuff | 7 Comments »

[caption id="attachment_276" align="alignleft" width="160" caption="Seth Godin"][/caption] Ok, I don't really believe that, but I think sometimes Mr. Godin spends way too much time thinking up stuff instead of doing stuff. And, ... Read more..

Do you know how to do anything?

Thursday, January 8th, 2009 Posted in Brand Awareness, Culture, Social Media, Technology | 4 Comments »

I keep going back to a moment in my life, 1993 I think it was; the year is not that important. I was the Operations Training Manager at Huffy and ... Read more..

Government should be counter-cyclic to the Main Street marketplace

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009 Posted in Culture, Social Media | No Comments »

Originally published at: DogWalkBlog.com   [caption id="attachment_891" align="alignleft" width="232" caption="Ohio Statehouse"][/caption] I was listening to NPR on WMUB this morning about the freshman Ohio senators starting their terms and how hard their jobs ... Read more..

Planning doesn’t matter if you can’t execute at retail

Sunday, January 4th, 2009 Posted in Brand Awareness, Stuff | 2 Comments »

[caption id="attachment_229" align="alignleft" width="225" caption="Ketchup merchandised on the shelf upside-down"][/caption]I had to run into a Meijer's store on a Sunday evening to pick up a few things when the shelf ... Read more..