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Mobile: Google gets it

By Ken McCarthy in Internet insight, Mobile

I hate to give Google free ink, but facts are facts.

Here’s a fascinating take from David Rothwell, one of the smartest guys I know and one I see far too rarely. (Please someone move the UK a few hours …

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The great mobile scare of 2014

By Ken McCarthy in Business advice, Internet insight, Marketing news, Media Industry, Media/Tech history, Mobile, Web/Tech

It’s pretty clear that the Golden Era of people accessing the Internet from a desktop/laptop 100% of the time is over – and it’s never coming back.

I encounter many “old school” direct marketing-oriented Internet marketers who find this reality …

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What Adam Smith really said

By Ken McCarthy in Human rights and justice, inspiration

Many people think Adam Smith, author of “The Wealth of Nations,” gave his blanket endorsement to any activity as long as it makes money in the free market.

Not so at all.

“This disposition to admire, and almost to worship, …

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Mission impossible…accomplished

By Ken McCarthy in Business Tools, Marketing news, Marketing Tools, Top Picks

Here’s your mission…

I need you to assemble the following team.

Get me:

* The #1 direct mail copywriter of the last 40 years
* The top infomercial guy in the world
* The world’s foremost direct response radio expert…

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Margaret Gould Stewart: Design for the interactive digital globally networked age

By Ken McCarthy in Internet TV, Marketing Tools, Videos to Watch

Margaret Gould Stewart is director of product design at Facebook, Inc.

Before Facebook, Stewart spent three years as head of user experience for YouTube and two years leading search and consumer products user experience at Google.

A graduate of NYU’s …

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The essence of crowdfunding – Steve Jobs (1980)

By Ken McCarthy in inspiration, Media/Tech history, Videos to Watch

– Ken McCarthy

P.S. For over 25 years I’ve been sharing the simple but powerful things that matter in business with my clients.

If you’d like direction for your business that will work today, tomorrow and twenty years from now, …

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