Girl Scout Marketing

Peruse the Marketing section of your local bookstore and you’ll see a lot of titles and some unusual pairings. Guerrilla Marketing, Punk Marketing, Pyro Marketing…the list goes on.
These are not bad books and if they were I wouldn’t say so, at least not now, as this post is not intended to be a review. I [...]

The Internet. Now with Tartar Control.

I think every time I buy toothpaste I buy a different type. I can’t remember from tube to tube which brand I owned before, so every time I go to the market I have to look at 120 boxes all over again.
Every single time.
In fact, the only specific tooth product I can think of at [...]

Productivity Blogs, Hypocrisy and Me Just Generally Getting Some Things Off My Chest

No, I’m not yelling at you, my readers, I’m just yelling. Even us happy cheery fellows can get mighty pissed.
For the past who knows how long, I’ve been deleting RSS feeds from my aggregator. The first ones to go are the “how to be productive” ones, or the “63 new productivity apps that will take [...]

There are Only Four Business Styles. Which is Yours?

Your customer has money and you want it.
You have a service or product for sale and your customer wants that.
Somewhere between those two is a seemingly delicate balance of who delivers what and for how much money. I say a “seemingly” delicate balance because in truth there’s only one way to intelligently run your [...]