There seem to be two schools of thought in the Internet marketing world.
The first I call the “rape and pillage” school. These folks don’t know their customers and they don’t want to know their customers. They just want to …
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Forced Continuity – The good, the bad, the questionable
It’s Mother’s Day and I just placed my last minute order for flowers on FTD.
I’m guessing that today is the biggest flower sales day of the year and that a lot of FTD customers are going to wake up …
The winner’s curse
I spent a brief but highly enlightening time working on Wall Street, first providing support to the foreign exchange trading desk at Bankers Trust (the biggest private US dealer in the biggest market in the world) and then at First …
We did it! – Winning the ICANN campaign
On August 17, just one letter was posted in opposition to ICANN’s proposed changes to the domain name system.
The day before the public comments closed, August 27, forty-two letters in opposition were posted.
One the final day, starting from …
Domain name madness
Domain name madness…
Some people worry about the power of Google.
There’s only one force on the Internet that I worry about and that’s…
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Franchise this
Franchises – you get the right to use a brand name, some training, and the obligation to pay the home office forever.
A good deal?
I don’t think so, and yet the price on these things just goes up and …