Thanks to Chris Brogan for the following list of 10 Things You Could Do Better Today:
Improve your response time to requests.
Improve the brevity and simplicity of your email correspondence.
Connect with five new people and seven existing colleagues or friends each day.
Inspect your business process cycle from start to finish for improvements.
Rethink your approach to helping others succeed.
Google has always fixed and limited the typefaces that advertisers and publishers could use for text ads. As of now, Google lets publishers and bloggers choose their own. Now, publishers and bloggers can choose from three different typefaces: Arial, Times and Verdana. To do so, log in to the AdSense account, select the My Account Tab, then Account Settings –> Ad Display Preference. A dropdown for selecting a preferred Google Adsense typeface will appear.
My office recently held our Secret Santa party for the holidays. My contribution, a Tweety Bird Chia Pet. Why, because my daughter wanted me to buy it. In the end, the rest of the gifts were just not up to par, so in a bold move, I stole back the gift I gave and brought it home for the almost 6 year old to play with. It is kind of a creepy thing, growing what essentially looks like alfalfa sprouts from the heaf of a ceramic Looney Tunes character. While doing some digging, I came across one really interesting stat about the sales of Chia Pets;
A full 90% of Chia sales occur during the holidays
That seemingly omnipresent “Ch-Ch-Ch-Chia” refrain hits the airwaves every year around Thanksgiving
I normally focus on issues that deal with digital and online marketing, however while reading the news today I came across an article that in my opinion shows the world as we know it is falling apart. Let me caveat this with the fact that I personally do not eat cheese. I do not like the smell, the taste, the texture, I just avoid it as much as possible. With that knowledge I bring you news that with data showing growing food lines now in most major cities in Europe, the Italian government has come up with a way to help the needy while propping up one of its iconic industries.
Advertising Age reported that Fitch Ratings gave a gloomy outlook for advertising in 2009. The word used to describe the upcoming year was “gloomy”. They are predicting that the advertising environment next year will be the weakest it’s been since the 2001 downturn and that was the worst ad recession since 1970.
What most people don’t realize is that it is not just about national, mass advertising that is in risk. There is a substantial amount of local advertising as well. It is the local advertising that drives so much of the production end of the industry that it in fact could be the most impacted.
As we are in the midst of a global economic crisis it makes sense for companies to hold back their spending and make tough decisions. In the face of uncertain times ahead there are still consumers, products to be sold and marketing and advertising to be developed. For some companies, the holding back of spending i forced upon them. They are losing sales, market share and cash. Take the big three automakers as an example. Their pullback on spending is a necessity to avoid bankruptcy. So what do the competitors of the companies in trouble do in the face of a huge opportunity?
When I was in school we used DOS. Ok, first I had a Commodore VIC 20, and all I did was play games like River Raid, but then I finally in 1986 bought a Tandy 1000s PC with, if I can remember, an 8088 processor, 20 MB hard drive and a 5 1/4 inch floppy drive. It was raw, rustic and almost unusable against today’s standards.
Then came Windows 3.1 and …
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