For individuals, the internet represents an increase in leverage,During the last recession, plenty of entrepreneurs scored by selling businesses on doing a phone bill audit Riskier, sure, but they stand for something, they don't just steal share,When you respond to treatment, that's a plus
This is why I don't have a podcast, a video channel, any activity to speak of on Facebook,Raise it a little, check to see if revenue rises in aggregate, and repeat Every blog and many news services 'broadcast' a tiny little signal that you can't hear, but your RSS reader can,The way that text ads work is this: you pay by the click
I also think it's fine for risk-takers and skilled pros to make a ton of money,Richard was telling me that he doesn't care what his customers think I don't think it should matter whether or not you're trying to make a profit,Woodpulp, printing presses, typesetting machines, delivery trucks, those stands on the street and the newsstand
They say they're lousy because of the time zone issue,You pick a chicken, they bring it into the back room and bring you back fresh chicken parts Christmas has become a holiday about shopping, not about giving,The choice of workers to be virtual or flexible or change careers
How much more would I make over there? Why does that company pay its CEO more than my company pays me?,Like lifting a car off an infant, it was impossible, and I have no recollection at all of the project now It's the work of a passionate amateur, an honest memoir of someone who has lived a life most of us can only dream of,The smart kids at Squidoo just launched a new tool, too
The second reason is that spammers would be all over this information if it were easy to find,Guess what? It triggered twenty more pings and twenty more emails My guess is that his $100 store credit and personal note helped a great deal, but it also cost about $20 million in profit,Tempting to string a bunch together in a blog post or a memo and show how clever you are
Given the choice between acknowledging that your customer is upset or proving to her that she is wrong, which will you choose?,Now that you see it today, what will you create? Pay a little bit and you help a lot of people to avoid hassles,The important thing to remember is that separate events are often separate
Six degrees of separation, social networks, online profiles and Google should all make it automatic,A good friend sent a Facebook alert of some sort to twenty of her friends They were being treated differently, but in the wrong way,It's easy to make fun of business clich��s
A friend worried out loud to me the other day, I spent the last seven months doing this [job] and I have nothing to show for it,Mark points us to this great set of stats If you want a fast start and good sales, be ready to answer the question,Put this on your home page, contact us if you're looking for more information or a price quote
But the new laziness has nothing to do with physical labor and everything to do with fear,If you've got a wagon full of rice as food aid, you can just dump it in the town square and drive away The purpose of software was to interact with a device, not another person,It's tempting to turn the dial all the way to 11, the make everything just a bit louder
Email this ? Subscribe to this feed ? Share on Facebook,These are just a few of the millions of examples of counter-intuitive data-driven findings Often, someone will riff on a concept or approach that characterizes the revolution that we're living through online, and heads will nod,Charles Blow reports in the NY Times that:
