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Archive for the ‘sales’ Category

June 30th, 2007

iPhone profits

The iPhone launched yesterday and, predictably, it’s already hitting the secondary market. It’s hilarious to scroll through eBay and read some of the listings for iPhones. As I’m writing this, the prices range from $20,999,999.00
downward. Some of the auctions are pure satire, others are pure greed (Buy It Now price of $5,000? Gimme a break.), […]

By Bren -- 0 comments

May 25th, 2007

TwitterLit is genius

Aside from the questionable practice of hooking into another product’s name to promote your own business, TwitterLit (and here) is one of the coolest Twitter uses I’ve seen. Twice a day, this person posts the first line of a book to Twitter, with an affiliate link to the book on Amazon. The site describes it […]

By Bren -- 4 comments

March 20th, 2007

Greaseless networking (or how to build your business network without being a chump)

I’ve been intrigued by the idea of networking for a long time. But it’s always been a kind of voyeuristic activity for me since my natural inclination is to get a good book and go curl up in a cave somewhere. I’m the farthest thing imaginable from a natural networker. But the deal is […]

By Bren -- 10 comments

March 17th, 2007

Hiring and firing, fast and slow

I’m generally a proponent of the “hire slow, fire fast” school of thought. It can be extremely painful to hire slow, but typically not quite as painful as the destruction a bad hire can wreak on a company or team. I recently read Dick Costolo’s (of Feedburner) post on hiring fast vs. slow and I […]

By Bren -- 13 comments

February 5th, 2007

SuperBowl commercials

I don’t know anything about football–I didn’t even know that the Super Bowl was last weekend until someone told me last Friday. But I always like checking out the commercials. Which is kinda weird since I don’t really watch TV much. But whatever. Here’s an embedded player that has 30 of last weekend’s commercials in […]

By Bren -- 0 comments

January 10th, 2007

Book review: Citizen Marketers

I wrote earlier about this book, and the MarketingProfs book group discussion about it. The discussion starts here, if you’re a MarketingProfs member.
When I wrote the first post about this book, I was really taken with it. I still am, but my enthusiasm is a little bit tempered now. I wasn’t exactly sure what […]

By Bren -- 1 comment

January 5th, 2007

Schoolhouse Rocks, Susanna Hoffs, and…Email Correspondence?

The importance of grammar in email correspondence with clients and potential clients.

By admin -- 3 comments

September 23rd, 2006

50 great ones

It’s always hard to narrow down great business-oriented blogs to a finite list, so I rarely try to do it. Especially lately, since I’ve been focusing on reading books made of paper more than blogs made of screens. Regardless, Lisa Haneberg has listed 50 business-oriented blogs that she and three others find very useful for […]

By Bren -- 1 comment

July 22nd, 2006

Slacker Manager pimp-styles

If you visit the actual Slacker Manager blog (as opposed to reading RSS), you’ll know that there are a few ads on the sidebar. Google Adsense ads have been there for a while, and I occassionally put up the Basecamp banner when I’m feeling lotsa love for it. The RSS feed has an occasional ad […]

By Bren -- 1 comment

July 13th, 2006

Niche market research the cheap, fast and easy way

If you ever have to learn about an online market, there’s a fast and easy way to do it that doesn’t require fancy market research firms or lots of money. Usually the old saying goes: “Fast, easy, cheap: Pick two.” In this case however, you can can have your cake and eat it too. There’s […]

By Bren -- 4 comments

April 18th, 2006

HigherEdBlogCon chat transcript

Yesterday I was a panelist for a chat about using “New Media In Admissions.” The chat was pretty wide-ranging, but pretty fun. About 40 people dropped in to participate and it seemed pretty successful, if a little bit schizophrenic. I have a tough time managing my attention when I’m chatting with just three people, let […]

By Bren -- 0 comments

March 30th, 2006

Coffee is for closers!

I’m not a sales guy, but if I were, and I were prone to blogging about it, I would name my blog “Coffee Is For Closers.” There can be no better name for a sales blog. ‘Course there are no sales blogs because the sales guys don’t have time for blogs. A-B-C, baby. A-B-C. A-Always, […]

By Bren -- 6 comments

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