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Opinion vs. Expertise
It’s not often that I disagree with Mike and I am not ready to fully do that here but he is not fully centered on the core issue either. Kimball is correct that he should be better defining his brand...
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Reading is Writing: Illuminating The Digital Manuscript
Back in 2004 I wrote post called The Death of Consumer Electronics. Wishful thinking of course. My central, hopeful, argument is that we’re actually content creators, not consumers. What exactly do...
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Supply Risk: Learning From Purchasing’s Demise
I recently chatted with Charles Dominick, who gave a talk at Corporate United’s Synergy event in Chicago. He recently published a thoughtful post on his blog in late April that suggested Purchasing...
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The gift of a book
I have benefited from generosity of many, many in the research, interviewing, proofing, reviews, now marketing of the book. So, in turn I and others are turning around and giving back in several ways:...
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Borders Books In Trouble Due to eBooks
There was a point when our family went to a Borders or other bookstore at least once a week and sometimes twice. We would invariably spend up to $100 a trip. No more, and it seems like others have...
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Bottom of the Pyramid of Digital Media
If you read this blog regularly you should be used to my constant carping about the lack of imagination in the music industry due to which the price per song is stuck at about $1. While the music...
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Demand Side Economics
Image credit: Georgia State University Library Recently I wrote a couple of posts about Apple’s plan to charge vendors 30% of the transaction price for anything sold through the Apple Store (aka...
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Disintermediating the Publishers
Selling is hard work. In Sales 101 you need to learn that every customer objection is not a demand for a lower price, though that seems to be SOP for more companies these days. Sometimes a customer...
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Resolving To Write A Book in 2013 With Guy Kawasaki’s Help
Nearly everyone has at one point or another thought about a book they would love to write. The good news is that disruptive innovation is flourishing in publishing right now. It’s breaking down...
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Subscriptions, Social and CRM
“Who is the customer?” It’s a great question and one that my managers liked to ask when I was a young sales representative. Like all great questions, it got to the meat of the matter with an economy...
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Community, Recognition and experiences of a Community Manager
For several years my primary role and concern really was that of being the Community Manager for the SAP Developer Network (SDN) which is now known as the SAP Community Network (SCN); I still work at...
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