Hothead Review — Coldplay Viva La Vida
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008Coldplay’s best. Always a new plateau.
There’s always room for confusion
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008Is there room for confusion in what you say or sell to your customers? Seth posted about the Chubb fear letter and I posted about the Chubb fire protection. I emailed with Seth and tried to defend Chubb, but he wasn’t having it. This past weekend I went to dinner with some captains of industry. [...]
Just communicate
Friday, May 23rd, 2008I see a lot of things fall apart by virtue of no communication. I see friends break up with loved ones. I see business partnerships go awry for same. Last week we finished an A/C install at our house. Never had it. Glad we do. The company is a well known outfit in our town [...]
Winning gets down to trying harder
Friday, May 23rd, 2008I was noticing the difference between three pizza purveyors last night. All families I know have their favorite. Some of us go to the local “Lenny” or “Vinny” and get a great pie. But, if we are just considering the 3 national brands of Dominos, Pizza Hut and Papa Johns and we take out the [...]
Sometimes people ignore the numbers
Thursday, May 8th, 2008As in the case of Hillary v. Obama sometimes the stakes are so high people ignore the numbers that all but say “you lost.” It’s like being at the Super Bowl but it goes past the 4th Quarter and just keeps on going. But…How many people will be left in the stands when it all [...]
Hotels with courage
Thursday, May 1st, 2008This piece from FastCompany is very interesting in that Starwood threw out the old line marketing ideas of focus groups and actually decided to use an art gallery twist that took the mundane hotel visit and made it memorable –as it should be. This was done for the Le Meridien chain. Can’t wait until Holiday Inn figures [...]
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