01st December 2008
There was a time when a person could promote himself or herself shamelessly on the internet or in person. People responded to pressure sales, and salesmen were not afraid to apply the pressure. These days though, a lot of pitches are being made online. Th...
26th November 2008
There are a couple of tech Mecca’s in the United States, and Seattle is undoubtedly one of them. Maybe that’s why many the newest things in digital media often get a foothold there, like the more intelligent use of video programming. Wait until you se...
25th November 2008
In Seattle Washington this evening, a business network meeting was held at Rocket Dog Communications, who’s offices are right down across the street from the Seattle Ferry Terminal. The meeting was organized by the company owners, a husband and wife tea...
25th November 2008
Capitalism's base tenant of supply and demand requires a healthy environment of competition. Many of the calculated moves toward a global market have undermined that tenant. In a competitive arena, there are bound to be winners, and the governments used t...
12th November 2008
Who of us understands the complexities of a debt economy? While it may be true that the modern economy is so complex, even in its fundamentals, that no one is really in control of it, but that doesn’t mean that those who operate at high levels of manipu...
05th November 2008
The ongoing financial insanity has hit home in the car industry, and the worry is that the hits will keep coming. The perspective from inside the Used Car Dealer sector is eye popping with concern. As an industry insider, the author (me) has seen the decl...
05th November 2008
You’ve designed a web site before, haven’t you? I don’t mean “built” one (though maybe you have”. I’m talking about thinking through the structure, crafting up the content, arranging and re-arranging the layout, and generally going around an...
04th November 2008
Business Networking is as old as business, which in turn is as old as the human sentient state. What are the underlying, unchanging precepts of networking in a competitive, goods and services oriented arena? Understanding these principles can put us in a ...
04th November 2008
There has been much written and otherwise espoused about the truly exciting phenomenon of socially viral online movements. The entire history of the internet is a viral one, even though you’ll seldom hear it openly defined that way. Those who understand...
03rd November 2008
A lot of people write about online marketing and offer advise for free, or for a fee. As we attempt to sift through the avalanche of material and to make some sense of it, there are a few things that begin to come clear through the fog. The subject is ver...
03rd November 2008
In order to get someone to work with you, you need to be able to offer them something in return. If they have something that you want, how can you get them to share? Equitability is the answer. Networking is a simple function of that equitability. What do...
03rd November 2008
Life is not like a box of Chocolates. There are a lot of pitfalls in this modern social climate, and biting into things randomly is not often a sweet experience. We might wish that things really are as they were for Forest Gump, or wish that we were dumb...
31st October 2008
Many of us with an online presence have seen the explosive growth of web companies over and over again. Netscape was the early pioneer of online viral marketing, but other companies soon eclipsed them. Hotmail was another example. Those of us who do wish ...
31st October 2008
Video has notoriously dominated the entertainment industry, and thus the advertising industry for a half century. Recently though, the 300 pound gorillas of the video entertainment industry have taken a beating. So many factors have curbed their power, an...
30th October 2008
How many of us have gotten involved in business networks that went nowhere? We go to regular meetings and we talk across steaming coffee cups over boxes of donuts, hopeful at first, but ever becoming more disillusioned as the months roll on. Wouldn’t it...
