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Learned: Slow down to speed up.
New: iPad photo flip orientation is geek candy.

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Something Learned:there’s a fine line between an email subject line that grabs attention and one that gets an eye-roll and marked as junk by users.

Something New: LinkTrust has a per-call tracking feature on their affiliate management platform.

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Finding a Web site doing something original seems to be a rare occurrence any more. Here are a few that have come across my radar recently. (Yes, I recognize the irony of unoriginally highlighting other people’s ideas at the same time that I criticize the Web’s shortage of unique ideas). HelpHive is a home services [...]

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Nearly every major “win” I’ve encountered at an online lead generation business has been “found” money. Win = something that will end up on the resume some day.  Found = revenue generated with little to no new expense required. I’m sure there other vertical applications for this but it is especially true in lead gen [...]

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1. Be real. If you feel sorry for the people receiving bad news, tell them that. If authentic tears flow, so be it. If you don’t know the answer, say so. If the answer isn’t what they want to hear, say it anyway. 2. Don’t delegate the delivery of bad news. The best way to [...]

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Oh my, meat!

Just when I thought my friend couldn’t get any cooler, he rolls out a Web site all about meat. Meaten.com is all about why meat should be eaten. I don’t need to be told why meat should be eaten, I get it, a quarter pound at a time usually. But I still like to read [...]

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Top 10 things I’ve got simply by asking: Married. Tickets to the Obama swearing in ceremony (That just happened yesterday – the getting part, that is. The asking happened a few days after the election. The waiting part happened in between). A raise (There was a lot of working hard that happened before this one. [...]

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Epiphanies: 1) Have this philosophy: Don’t do stupid things. Hire smart people. Then… 2) Don’t do stupid things 3) Hire smart people. Examples of this not happening: 1) Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich (allegedly) 2) This pizza delivery guy Examples of smart people ruling: 1) Google 2) Obama transition team 3) A lot of the sites [...]

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Epiphany: The world would be a much better place if more people were like Shaq. Proof? Here are the Top 10 Shaqisms from Shaq’s Twitter updates: Go were yo dreams take u, live the live u have imagined He who has never learned to obey, cannot b a good commander (Shaq quoting “The big aristotle”) [...]

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Epiphany: Great social networks satisfy human curiosity. This is a significant part of their appeal. Take Facebook. I’d guess the majority of Facebook Friends are existing or old acquaintances, not newly found amigos. Question: what’s more tempting,  looking in a friend’s medicine cabinet or a complete stranger’s? Which would create more intrigue, finding an embarrassing [...]

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