I get on a plane this afternoon to head back to Boston. A few people have asked whether I feel anything about flying on the anniversary of 9/11. Heck no. We now have the greatest security system in the world on our planes. No, not the TSA. Not Homeland Security. All of that is very
“The market crashes, turns to ashes that you’re dancing on while some fat lady cues up for a song.” – Matthew Ebel, Better Off Dead Well, folks, the great unraveling is picking up pace, with more banks failing, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac taking up hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars in a bailout, and
Here’s a vital question I have from a recent discussion with my CEO at the Student Loan Network: What happened to the other 98%? We talk a lot, especially in marketing, about click through, conversion, and retention rates. Invariably, these rates are small fractions in all of the discussions I’ve had. 1% click through rate,
From MSNBC’s homepage: Anyone from President Bush’s administration “tutoring” someone else on foreign policy is a lot like career binge alcoholics tutoring high school students on responsible drinking.
How To Monetize Your Social Media Outlet In a variation of a Financial Aid Podcast blog post this morning, here’s a brief economics 101 explanation of how you can monetize your blog, podcast, Twitter lifestream, or other social media outlet. Economics 101 Supply and demand are inversely related. When demand exceeds supply, you have to
Google’s announcement of Chrome, their new open-source browser, was greeted with a relatively lukewarm reception online today. Here’s the part that a lot of folks missed, from the Chrome comic book. (yes, a comic book) Get it? If your SEO efforts aren’t up to par, Google’s ignoring you in the testing of their browser, too.
What is visionary? What is vision? Stephen K. Hayes posted an interesting challenge to me for my blog. “I would enjoy seeing your take on “visionary” and why you feel that the term is used so frequently by others to describe your work.” To me, vision is being able to see where you’re going, to
“The reality is that the American eagle needs both a left wing and a right wing or he ain’t getting off the ground.” – J. Michael Straczynski We need both. Neither is more or less correct as long as we actually want to fly. Food for thought: an eagle has a right wing and a
