Guy, Heh. No problemo - they're attached. Guy's Top 10 Tips for Using Evernote 1. Take notes, easily find them later Everyone takes notes -- in business meetings, lectures, or simply scribbling things down on the way to the store. Evernote is better. When you take your notes in Evernote, they become accessible from anywhere, [...]
Check out the design of my new business card here. It’s a combination of my company’s logo and a business card—truly making a business card a marketing device. If you have a cool logo, you should do this too!
The guys at Out:Think did an extreme makeover of the Alltop news blog. Click here to see the before and after. Basically, we went from stock template to cool custom design. The firm specializes in building websites for online personalities and celebrities; click here to see other examples of their fine work.
Have you ever wondered about who you’re interviewing for a position, buying something from on Craigslist, dating (or, even worse, who your kids are dating)? You can do a Google search, but there are many people with same name. I discuss a service that enables you to enter a person’s email address and find his [...]
48 hours, 37% of kids had not responded. 62% of adults had It's okay to repeat tweets. Repeat tweets: 1. The CTRs each time are 1481, 1415, 1208, 955 ... 10, 40, 45, 37 It's okay not to engage. It's okay not to take crap. It's okay to tell people to unfollow you. It's okay [...]
Over at the American Express Open Forum, I posted an article called “You Aren’t Crazy, You’re Just an Entrepreneur” by Pamela Slim. This articles explains the four stages of entrepreneurship—and why you’re probably not crazy!
Over at the American Express Open Forum, I explained how to be on time by installing a cool clock on your computer. Check it out by clicking here. It’s simple application that might help you if you tend to procrastinate.
Over at the American Express Open Forum, I posted an article called “Customer-Centric Design: Got Empathy?” by Matthew E. May (@matthewemay). This articles explains why walking a few miles in the shoes of your customers is important when designing products and services for them. Check it out by clicking here.
Over at the American Express Open Forum, I posted an article called “Design’s Deadly Duo” by Matthew E. May (@matthewemay). This articles how companies mistake invention for innovation by making two big mistakes: confusing an unarticulated need with a non-existent one and confusing long lead times with future needs.
Over at the American Express Open Forum I posted an article called “How to Design a Flat Organization” by Matthew E. May (@matthewemay). This articles explains how FAVI built a flat organization to better serve its customers’ needs. Check it out by clicking here.
Over at the American Express Open Forum I posted an article about a panel of young people discussing how they use the Internet, what they pay for, what they would pay for, and what they won’t pay for. Fascinating stuff if you’re trying to make a web business work. Click here to read it.
Now you can add a home screen icon for Alltop on your iPhone. First, click on the + sign. Second, click on “Add to Home Screen.” […]
Have you noticed this tweet button on websites and blogs? A company out of England called Tweetmeme created a service that tallies all the times people have tweeted and retweeted a link. It’s a great way to spread the word about your websites and blogs. Read this interview with the founder of Tweetmeme to learn [...]
By popular demand, we decreased the size of the font when people look at MyAlltop pages with an iPhone or Blackberry. Now you’re able to see seven or eight headlines at once. If you don't have a MyAlltop page, look at mine here. Or better yet, build one here.
Most websites and blogs use something called RSS feeds to push updates to you. RSS feeds are often convenient because you don’t have to go to the website or blog to read them. Instead, new stories are pushed to you—this is akin to the difference between going to a store to buy a magazine versus [...]
Chevrolet loaned me a 2010 Camaro for a few days. There’s no question that it just nailed the styling: just enough visual linkage to the past, but modern in current execution. It really says, “Don’t screw with me.” (FixMyPhotos processed these photos for me. If you’d like them to help you with your profile picture, [...]
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We’re rapidly coming up on Revenue Bootcamp on Friday. The event is almost sold out. Click here to see the agenda. Facebook is providing a $50 coupon that you can apply to advertise your product or service on it plus you can use this discount code to get $50 off the admission price: “FGK09.”
I’ve been to many places around the world, but I’ve never seen a city with cooler store names than Edinburgh, Scotland. Here are the 25 best stores names that I saw on a recent trip. They run the gamut from clever and punny to downright descriptive. Cocaine? Tofu? Stuff white people like? I never went [...]
What better pictures to post on the 4th of July than ones of a good ole, red-blooded Corvette. My buddies in the GM PR department loaned me one to drive for a week after we connected on Twitter—yet another frequently overlooked of tweeting! This guy shows up at my house with the keys for a [...]