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1 year ago
in Twitter 101: Clarifying The Rules For Newbies on SheGeeks
Oops. Thanks for the information. Seriously. Do I get points for breaking all of the rules?
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:D Not Brownie Twitter points lol maybe spam points.
1 year ago
in The real roadblocks to data portability on social networks on Scobleizer
I was just thinking that this was a real issue but hadn't figured on a solution. Not so much for my email as I control my domain name but because I have friends, associates and the like who change their contact information when they change jobs or rebrand etc.
I thought Plaxo was supposed to lead things off into the right direction but shifted focus to being a pseudo LinkedIn. I think that this will be much easier than the supposed Local Number Portability that was supposed to allow customers keep their phone number as they switched telcos in North America.
For me, too I have dozens of logins, usernames, nicks because of formatting, preference of nicks/handles over emails and such so how are some people to know it is me. Avatars help but have no ID or sniff test for people to say, "That's him!" or say, "This person is an imposter.".
I'd be interested to see if a solution for cross application interaction happens.
I thought Plaxo was supposed to lead things off into the right direction but shifted focus to being a pseudo LinkedIn. I think that this will be much easier than the supposed Local Number Portability that was supposed to allow customers keep their phone number as they switched telcos in North America.
For me, too I have dozens of logins, usernames, nicks because of formatting, preference of nicks/handles over emails and such so how are some people to know it is me. Avatars help but have no ID or sniff test for people to say, "That's him!" or say, "This person is an imposter.".
I'd be interested to see if a solution for cross application interaction happens.
2 years ago
in In Search of the Softwareless Office on Duct Tape Marketing
Hey John,
Great list. A definite del.icio.us tag, for sure.
I have tried a number of these such as Zoho (very slow), BaseCamp (Excellent), Freshbooks (Soon to start talking to BaseCamp), and others not on your list such as Plaxo (Contact Management), BigContacts (Contact Manager), and Stikkits (Cool but needs to talk to Plaxo and Google Calendar).
QuickBooks Online Edition and Sage (Act Online) are very expensive, restrictive and slow (according to support posts and blog posts I have read.)
My biggest issue is that few, if any of these applications work together--never mind well together.
I am on a quest (http://www.jaygilmore.ca/blog/2007/02/01/fast-i...) to have a set of online tools that work the way I would like as well as have intelligent integration. My personal wish is that Google Apps will become more than a Scotch Taped together set of domain oriented tools. Google's own applications don't work well together and work very differently than my normal Google Account.
I have posted my experiences about it here:
http://www.jaygilmore.ca/blog/2007/02/27/google...
I'd be interested to hear what you have to say about it.
Great list. A definite del.icio.us tag, for sure.
I have tried a number of these such as Zoho (very slow), BaseCamp (Excellent), Freshbooks (Soon to start talking to BaseCamp), and others not on your list such as Plaxo (Contact Management), BigContacts (Contact Manager), and Stikkits (Cool but needs to talk to Plaxo and Google Calendar).
QuickBooks Online Edition and Sage (Act Online) are very expensive, restrictive and slow (according to support posts and blog posts I have read.)
My biggest issue is that few, if any of these applications work together--never mind well together.
I am on a quest (http://www.jaygilmore.ca/blog/2007/02/01/fast-i...) to have a set of online tools that work the way I would like as well as have intelligent integration. My personal wish is that Google Apps will become more than a Scotch Taped together set of domain oriented tools. Google's own applications don't work well together and work very differently than my normal Google Account.
I have posted my experiences about it here:
http://www.jaygilmore.ca/blog/2007/02/27/google...
I'd be interested to hear what you have to say about it.
2 years ago
in Eric Sink is a marketing genius! on Scobleizer
John Dodds,
The problem is that Marketing 101 is not "make a great product and people will love it and want to talk about it." It is usually "determine how you can get the biggest segment of potential customers to buy the product--regardless of quality". And the thing is that both approaches work just fine--it just costs more to market the mediocre product over time. Now we have to think about the Long Tail which tells us that we need to make a bunch of small products for a bunch of small sub-segments.
Marketing is much more complex than can be expressed here. There is first position, (Windows), alternative solutions and under-dogging (mac and linux). There are companies out there whose mediocrity is so refined that we are comforted by their consistency such as McDonald's and Wendy's.
This is the second time I have written this today: Sometimes it takes longer to express the full meaning of one's position.
It is arrogant to say everybody knows this. I have been working with small business for more than a decade and I have learned that you can't assume that businesses know anything about marketing. It is them that will get the most of Eric's article. In larger business if they haven't killed the creativity, they will learn something from Eric's article. For everyone else who knows everything else--they wouldn't read the article anyway.
All the best,
Jay
The problem is that Marketing 101 is not "make a great product and people will love it and want to talk about it." It is usually "determine how you can get the biggest segment of potential customers to buy the product--regardless of quality". And the thing is that both approaches work just fine--it just costs more to market the mediocre product over time. Now we have to think about the Long Tail which tells us that we need to make a bunch of small products for a bunch of small sub-segments.
Marketing is much more complex than can be expressed here. There is first position, (Windows), alternative solutions and under-dogging (mac and linux). There are companies out there whose mediocrity is so refined that we are comforted by their consistency such as McDonald's and Wendy's.
This is the second time I have written this today: Sometimes it takes longer to express the full meaning of one's position.
It is arrogant to say everybody knows this. I have been working with small business for more than a decade and I have learned that you can't assume that businesses know anything about marketing. It is them that will get the most of Eric's article. In larger business if they haven't killed the creativity, they will learn something from Eric's article. For everyone else who knows everything else--they wouldn't read the article anyway.
All the best,
Jay
2 years ago
in Blog reading tips on Scobleizer
Download FeedReader for Windows http://www.feedreader.com/ hack the hell out of the atom.xsl file and there you go.
Right click to get options to open in a new browser window or click the "Open in Browser" button on the top right of the preview pane.
I will never use online aggregators and I will never go back to using combo apps like Thunderbird or Opera.
All the best,
Jay
Right click to get options to open in a new browser window or click the "Open in Browser" button on the top right of the preview pane.
I will never use online aggregators and I will never go back to using combo apps like Thunderbird or Opera.
All the best,
Jay
2 years ago
in Surprise of the month: Macs crash? on Scobleizer
My wife and I are experiencing the Myth of the Mac. We recently purchased a new MacBook so that Tracy could have a laptop and so I could do previews on Safari for my development projects.
First things first. After waiting a very long time for it to make its global trek from Suzhou China to Nova Scotia. We tried to turn the system on and we got nothing. It was dead. We thought maybe it needed to charge. Nope.
After looking throught he manual to find out what to do if it won't turn on and proceed to exercize our hands through the intricate key-press combinations that could qualify as a sobriety test the system would come on but if you moved it it would shut down. If you touched it wrong it would shut down.
We called Apple to send it back. They said sure.
We have recieved the new one (that works) and now are attempting to network with my multi system windows based home office network.
Holy crap. I have set up all sorts Windows and Linux networks using SMB and the like and always with relative ease. Trying to give the MacBook access to the windows files is a major pain. Fortunately I have a network sys admin background or I wouldn't have been able to connect to my file server using the archaic server address required to connect.
After a week I still can't connect to my shared Epson printer which I had always been able to connect to using my Nix boxes.
Mac is easy so long as you have never used a computer before. That way you won't be missing what you can't do.
The Myth Of Mac is stong and powerful but it is just that--a myth.
First things first. After waiting a very long time for it to make its global trek from Suzhou China to Nova Scotia. We tried to turn the system on and we got nothing. It was dead. We thought maybe it needed to charge. Nope.
After looking throught he manual to find out what to do if it won't turn on and proceed to exercize our hands through the intricate key-press combinations that could qualify as a sobriety test the system would come on but if you moved it it would shut down. If you touched it wrong it would shut down.
We called Apple to send it back. They said sure.
We have recieved the new one (that works) and now are attempting to network with my multi system windows based home office network.
Holy crap. I have set up all sorts Windows and Linux networks using SMB and the like and always with relative ease. Trying to give the MacBook access to the windows files is a major pain. Fortunately I have a network sys admin background or I wouldn't have been able to connect to my file server using the archaic server address required to connect.
After a week I still can't connect to my shared Epson printer which I had always been able to connect to using my Nix boxes.
Mac is easy so long as you have never used a computer before. That way you won't be missing what you can't do.
The Myth Of Mac is stong and powerful but it is just that--a myth.
3 years ago
in Duct Tape Marketing Blog Channel Grows on Duct Tape Marketing
John,
The header top navigation is now in overload. Time to move to the eBay format. Pick a side. Make a list. Place last post date below or beside. Otherwise it is like a store menu that no one can read.
Congrats on the continued growth and expansion and thanks again for blogging.
Jay
The header top navigation is now in overload. Time to move to the eBay format. Pick a side. Make a list. Place last post date below or beside. Otherwise it is like a store menu that no one can read.
Congrats on the continued growth and expansion and thanks again for blogging.
Jay
3 years ago
in 10 Essential Small Business Productivity Tools on Duct Tape Marketing
John,
This is a great list. I have a couple of suggestions for both CRM and pdf output.
First, as far as CRM is concerned, I have moved from ACT to SugarCRM. SugarCRM (http://www.sugarcrm.com/crm/) has both commercial and OpenSource (http://www.sugarforge.org/) flavours, is web based and is much more easily managed over Sage ACT-- not to mention the advances throught the very active developer community.
Second, regarding pdf conversion. Pdf995 is a must have, but if you are constantly wanting to convert MS Word Documents into pdf files why not leave Microsoft and their pricing schemes behind and try OpenOffice (http://www.openoffice.org/). Once the open source MS Office clones were a far cry from easy to use and learn, now OO is nearly a perfect clone, little learning curve, if any and, guess what a little direct-to-pdf button in the toolbar beside the print button.
As always John, keep on posting.
All the best,
Jay
This is a great list. I have a couple of suggestions for both CRM and pdf output.
First, as far as CRM is concerned, I have moved from ACT to SugarCRM. SugarCRM (http://www.sugarcrm.com/crm/) has both commercial and OpenSource (http://www.sugarforge.org/) flavours, is web based and is much more easily managed over Sage ACT-- not to mention the advances throught the very active developer community.
Second, regarding pdf conversion. Pdf995 is a must have, but if you are constantly wanting to convert MS Word Documents into pdf files why not leave Microsoft and their pricing schemes behind and try OpenOffice (http://www.openoffice.org/). Once the open source MS Office clones were a far cry from easy to use and learn, now OO is nearly a perfect clone, little learning curve, if any and, guess what a little direct-to-pdf button in the toolbar beside the print button.
As always John, keep on posting.
All the best,
Jay
3 years ago
in Use Yahoo and Google Alert as Sales Tools on Duct Tape Marketing
John,
I took your advice and signed up for both and found both to provide terrible results. As an an example the keyword phrase " website design Canada" provided a page of results that had nothing to do with website design. It provided results for an industrial design firm that happened to have offices in Canada.
I think that there needs to be an optional check box to select degree of strictness for the keyword phrases. For very specific keywords -- like my company name-- it provides results that are desirable but I will leave it for now. Yahoo's was by far the worst for results and has not yet, after a week provided a single desirable result. I just end up with spammy press releases from PRWeb etc.
If you were to truly use this as a tool for your business you the services need a lot of added configurability.
All the best,
Jay Gilmore
http://www.smashingred.com
I took your advice and signed up for both and found both to provide terrible results. As an an example the keyword phrase " website design Canada" provided a page of results that had nothing to do with website design. It provided results for an industrial design firm that happened to have offices in Canada.
I think that there needs to be an optional check box to select degree of strictness for the keyword phrases. For very specific keywords -- like my company name-- it provides results that are desirable but I will leave it for now. Yahoo's was by far the worst for results and has not yet, after a week provided a single desirable result. I just end up with spammy press releases from PRWeb etc.
If you were to truly use this as a tool for your business you the services need a lot of added configurability.
All the best,
Jay Gilmore
http://www.smashingred.com
