“Excuse me, honey. What did you say? I wasn’t paying attention.” These words—or some very similar—are uttered in living rooms around the world every evening and now Twitter is bringing the same phenomena to its online world. The latest version of Twitter’s iOS and Android apps includes a mute feature. Simply put, when you hit […]
Survey says! It’s a catch phrase that’s been in the American lexicon since Richard Dawson started hosting Family Feud in 1976. The show’s main hook is the embarrassing answers contestants give when they try to guess survey results. It can be equally as embarrassing trying to explain survey results, even when the surveys come from […]
A major hurricane—winds at least 111 mph—hasn’t hit the United States since 2005, and I’m not forgetting about “Hurricane Sandy” and the devastation it caused. Technically, Sandy wasn’t a hurricane. However, we should take Sandy as a stark warning that stands in the midst of some pretty mellow years in terms of hurricane damage. While […]
The calendar on the wall says it’s June while the calendar on my smartphone says it’s Entrepreneurs Do It Yourself Marketing Month. For most entrepreneurs every month is DIY marketing month, but as summer rolls in, we take a little extra time to consider marketing. I don’t want to highlight or honor this month with […]
True Story. A friend stopped by his neighborhood donut shop the other day and found a new featured offering temptingly in the glass display case. He bought two; one for himself and one for his wife. His wife loved this new creation so much, the next day she dropped in and bought a dozen for […]