I wanted to follow up on my earlier point, about bloggers who are missing the point. It seems to me that the reason I’m thinking about this in such different terms is that I just don’t see blogging as a …
Category: Business Management
The Fix is In
If you believe Steelers linebacker Joey Porter, the NFL is about as legit as professional wrestling. According to Porter, the world wanted the Colts to win so the refs tried to rig the game by making bad calls. It reminds …
I changed my mind about vision statements
I used to think that vision statements were just something that corporate executives do to make themselves feel as if they’re contributing. I still feel that’s true, but for a small company having the entrepreneur express his vision to his …
Do you understand the difference between outsourcing and offshoring?
Everybody outsources. If you eat food that you didn’t grow yourself, you outsourced. Seriously, people need to get an understanding of what the word means. Take your clothes to the dry cleaners, it’s outsourcing. Need some legal work done? You …
What NOT to do with Your Website
I’ve seen this again and again. People thowing money into their website without a good sensible idea how it’s going to benefit their company. Recently, I saw one guy who spent $10,000 to have a marketing company set them up …
How VoIP is Helping to Make Location Obsolete
Yea, I know, VoIP is a hot “buzz” topic now, but there’s some value I’m seeing in it for my future. I can sign on with a company like Vonage, and have them transfer my current phone number. I can …
2005 Mileage Rate to be 40.5 Cents
Milage Rate Increase – from a press release from the IRS
The Internal Revenue Service today released the optional standard mileage rates to use for 2005 in computing the deductible costs of operating an automobile for business, charitable, medical or …
Yes, PageRank isn’t Showing in Google’s Toolbar
Just so everyone understands
Toolbar isn’t real PageRank
Okay?
Now, let me explain in easy terms. Do you recall the last time someone took a photo of you? Maybe last week, a couple months ago, or whenever? Is that photo …
Yahoo Gives Up?
I saw this noted at Steve Rubel’s Micro Persuasion Blog. According to an article syndicated by Bloomberg, Yahoo’s CFO Susan Decker said that Yahoo does not have a goal of being the number one search engine.
I just have to …