Is anyone stealing your stuff?
Matt Mason, author of the Pirate's Dilemma, pithily says,
August 22, 2009
July 28, 2009
Scholarship Search Secrets eBook, Sixth Edition released
Of all of the work I've done at Edvisors over the years, Scholarship Search Secrets, a free eBook on using Google and other tools to find money for college, is one of my proudest accomplishments. No other single piece of work has changed as many lives for the better as this one eBook, and the sixth edition brings new ideas to the table at a time when they're desperately needed, because college isn't getting cheaper but our collective wallets certainly are getting lighter.
July 23, 2009
What Warcraft's wool cloth should teach you about marketing
I'm an avid gold-maker in World of Warcraft. Like real life, the amount of gold you have in the game is a direct measure of how much value you bring. If you quest like mad and rack up thousands of gold, you've got the skills and the time to complete lots of quests. That's value. If you farm materials like in-game consumables, you're generating value for other players who don't have to spend their time farming, and the gold pours in. If you play the Auction House, knowing your markets and trends, you can arbitrage items that are sold for unusually low prices by players that don't know better and resell them at market prices - and the gold pours in.
July 9, 2009
The only green shoots are the ones you're smoking
I present two charts.
June 22, 2009
I was on a boat called PAB09
Podcasters Across Borders 2009 has wrapped up and the team of Mark Blevis and Bob Goyetche threw yet another impressive event. This year's PAB theme was ostensibly bringing outside knowledge into the podcasting world, but the general subject of many of the presentations was on story more than anything - ways to more effectively communicate your story from Six String Nation to a Hollywood career. There were some spectacular new tools and techniques debuted which I look forward to integrating into my shows, the Financial Aid Podcast and Marketing Over Coffee, ideas that I think will, if they work well, bring things up a notch. Also picked up some great new photography techniques I'll be trying out soon.
June 17, 2009
How do you reconcile openness and secrecy?
Here's another serious topic for discussion: how do you, in social media, reconcile openness and secrecy?
June 1, 2009
The eye of the storm
A couple of years ago, I posted a graphic of the mortgage resets from Credit Suisse First Boston. Let's see where we are now.
May 10, 2009
Turning this economic ship around
Take a look at these three charts.
April 21, 2009
Time is not money
There's a popular expression, a cliche, that says time is money. However, time isn't money. Why?
March 16, 2009
Seeds of the recovery
The seeds of the economic recovery are beginning to sprout a little. While the broader economy still has a lot to shake off and the investment, credit, and financial markets still have more garbage to take out, there are small signs of recovery underway that will eventually grow to big signs down the road. A few anecdotal pieces of information:
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