From the category archives:
If you could pay attention through payments on a special card, what would your balance look like?
Overdrawn?
Creditors beating down your door?
The word attention comes from a Greek word which means “to attend". To me that really brings home the fact that paying attention to something is not the passive act many have reduced [...]
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In the realm of personal branding there are two camps: One believes that you create a personal brand through the way you dress, cut your hair, pad your resume and all that nonsense which ends up giving the concept of personal branding a bad name. The other sees personal branding as a process of revelation. [...]
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That’s right. Now that Kevin Smith has raised a ruckus online over being kicked off a flight for being too fat, other passengers are raising a stink.
Literally.
Hmmmm…too soon?
I find this story amusing. A man was kicked off a Jazz Air flight. His smell was later described as “brutal” by another passenger. If you’ve ever flown [...]
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This ad ran in Time Magazine (June 30, 1947). That’s right, the headline reads DDT is Good for Me.
When I make jokes about this, I’ve actually had someone respond with “well yes, but the benefits of DDT in Africa can’t be argued with.”
Really?
I understand that Malaria is a horrible affliction, but if you’re [...]
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For the last couple of weeks of December I listened to my collection of recordings from notorious grump and marketing master Jedi Dan Kennedy. During one discussion he mentioned how he never has “feedback forms” available for the audience. Why?
Because
a.) he doesn’t really care about their input. If people are buying, he’s [...]
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If Google is the Godzilla of the search market and Bing is Mechazilla, Yahoo! is Mothra: Kind of sad and dorky looking but people still know who he (it) is.
Of course, it wasn’t always that way. I remember when people talked about Google as being a “pipe dream” if founders Larry Page and Sergey [...]
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From the “huh, that’s kind of odd” category, Twitter has hard-coded 370 passwords that you may not use.
To check it out, simply visit the sign up page, view source and look for the source code that starts out like this…
<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
twttr.BANNED_PASSWORDS = ["111111","11111111","112233","121212"…
The entire list is there for you to enjoy.
To [...]
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With 2010 upon us (I am so ready for a new decade), it’s a good time to set some goals for the coming year(s). Of course, any time is a good time to set new goals, but the near-universal slack time of December’s end seems to spark the desire in many to look ahead.
Goal setting [...]
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Back in 1901, the first Nobel Prize was awarded. Alfred Nobel set the prize into motion using his fortune largely earned from his invention of dynamite.
Amazingly enough dynamite was actually a safety improvement over highly volatile nitroglycerine which was under heavy use at the time. Dynamite could be used for the many earthworks efforts of [...]
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When I lived in Seattle, a long time ago, there were a handful of Starbucks mixed in with the multitude of coffee shops all over the city.
(If someone remembers the name of the place around U Dub with the “Toast Art” please remind me in the comments below.)
Anyway, I remember Starbucks as being [...]
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