Read this article the other day about the realities of making money with iPhone applications after reading this one about a developer making tons of dough. The truth is that most don’t make much money and the question that I have, is whether or not, Chris Anderson’s theory of the long tail will be applicable to the iPhone (or Android, Blackberry, Nokia) app store? Anderson’s...
Great video of Clay Shirky talking about the rules behind new Media.
Great video Featuring Josh Bernoff of Forrester talking about Del Monte collaborating with customers to create new business opportunities.
Just finished reading a report by the IAB that defines social advertising and lays out some best practices. In the past I’ve posted about businesses partnering with customers to enable personalized advertising (also known as “ads customers actually want”). I’ve also recommended that business need to create tool kits that enable customers to create quality ads. This is a...
I know. I know. Bear with me. It could end up being “one of those posts” but you’ll have to keep reading to find out. I’ve seen a lot of analogies lately (as there always is) about what marketing is now. Here are some of my favorites: Marketing is listening Marketing is a conversation Marketing is interaction Marketing is like Legos for your brain (one of my favorites)...
Great presentation at TED by Seth Godin on leadership and tribes.
I read a post on TechCrunch about one of the Twitter founders, Jack Dorsey starting a company, code-named squirrel that is going to enable individuals the ability to collect payments like merchants. The system is enabled by the iPhone and a physical piece that allows the user to swipe (not steal) a persons credit card. This physical part of this offering is powered by the actual swiping and looks...
This guy’s accent makes this sound very smart.
I’ve recently posted about businesses utilizing iPhone applications to help monetize new web and aside from giving you some advertising details below, I wanted to clarify my recommendations. In order to take advantage of all that an iPhone application offers and help monetize your business, I suggest when someone hits your site from a mobile browser on the iPhone, they are given a choice of...
I’ve posted about the creation of online personas and where they may live (the browser vs. the social network) and recently read (and commented on) a post entitled Firefox Could Be the Real Facebook Challenger by Marshall Kirkpatrick of Read Write Web. This is an excellent post and sites several reasons for Marshall’s belief that these two companies will soon be in the same business...