Marketing today can and should be approached in much the same way you do in building features or running a dev organization (i.e. it’s not that scary).
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Creating a simple blog can be easy. Setup doesn’t take too much work — especially if you go with a pre-designed template and a user-friendly content management system (CMS) like WordPress. Creating a well conceived, optimized blog, on the other hand? Not so simple. This is Part Two in a three-part series on my adventures in creating, launching […]
Last Christmas, my sister and brother-in-law bought me a web domain. Then, like most good Christmas presents, I promptly forgot about it for over a year. But in February — when my hosting company politely reminded me that I needed to renew my subscription plan — I started thinking about it again, and decided that […]
These days, you can follow a movie’s production schedule for months or even years before it’s released. Director and casting rumors, set photos, interviews with the right entertainment magazines and websites, social media campaigns — no rock is left unturned for a movie that wants to build incredible anticipation. However, there’s one movie-marketing tool in particular […]
So yeah, this article probably isn’t very good really…There are probably a million other articles 10 times better…Umm…So, yeah. Sorry… What you should be reading instead is The Atlantic magazine’s audacious new story “The Confidence Gap.” According to the article, evidence shows that women are less self-assured than men — and that to succeed, confidence […]
Q: I’ve created an amazing new product, but no one understands how it works. What’s the best way to educate and excite potential users? A: We frequently work with large companies and start-up clients offering products and services that are relatively new to the world. But no matter how cool a product or service — […]
I’m not unbiased when it comes to Buzzfeed, the Internet-based purveyor of quizzes, listicles and sort-of-news. It’s not that I worked or wrote for them — nothing like that. Basically, I think their content is about 95% useless. How many slideshows about Beyoncé and kittens does the world need? Hand in the Cookie Jar In […]
What does preparing for a singing competition have to do with market research? Turns out, a lot! Last week, I participated in a pop song competition at Martuni’s, an SF piano bar I frequent often. The competition required me to prepare and sing two pop songs, or songs in styles that were closely related to […]
About five days a week, I walk or drive through Capitola Village, a small town/tourist trap in Santa Cruz, CA that has attracted visitors for 200 years or so. Maybe more. And as summer grows closer, the number of tourists also grows. Getting through the area becomes a longer, slower trip. A slower trip means I […]
Whether you are a startup coming out of the gate with a new website, or you have an existing website that’s a bit slow and clunky, don’t neglect giving some serious thought to your website hosting service. For those not already aware, web hosting is the service that your website is built on (think of […]