If you want to start an extremely profitable company today, it needs to be built around patents, trademarks, or customer loyalty to particular lifestyle. This is one of the points Martin Lowy makes in his excellent Seeking Alpha piece, The 2-Track Economy: Employers Versus Moat Builders. The “moat” he mentions in the title of the […]
Learn the Art of Influence from the Go Giver with Bob Burg Do you ever look at the world around you and wonder what is going on? It seems that no one can agree with anyone else – take Washington, D.C. for instance! A business can implode on itself simply because people can’t agree. How […]
Brand partnerships can be a great growth strategy for businesses as small as the health club on the corner or as large as Coca-Cola. But as with dating apps, you need to be extremely careful who you hook up with. One of the most important elements to consider is size. But don’t merely look at […]
Does Spotify tell us more about the economy than the Fed or the Bureau of Labor Statistics? Should you ditch your blog and start a podcast? Are you just too darn productive? Those are just some of the questions writers attempt to answer in this week’s collection of curated content. Leadership, management, and productivity Is […]
It was a big deal earlier this year when Twitter doubled the allowable length of a tweet from 140 characters to 280 characters. But when Google doubled the length of meta descriptions from 160 to 320 characters at about the same time, the news flew under the radar – yet that change could be far […]