Is subcontracting the new economic model?

Everyone knows the web has created a world of endless niches, but that seems to have started to spill over to business. Everywhere I look someone is a consultant. And not just calling themselves consultants, they are busy beyond belief. It used to be you called yourself a consultant when you couldn’t get a full [...]

The Anti-Agency

Are agencies antiquated? I think they are. They want to grow and when they do they can’t do what it took to get where they are now. They must continue to get larger clients and shun the smaller ones because their overhead constantly climbs. Growth equates costs and costs equates higher fees. I propose the [...]

SEO isn’t the only means to being found

People tend to do the easiest thing in order to try and get found by Google. And just because Google finds you doesn’t mean it matters. That’s like saying you walk down the road and a beautiful woman sees you doesn’t mean she is giving you her number and giving you a chance to date [...]

Service? Who gives a crap about service?

Today at the gym I saw a trainer texting while his client was killing themselves on the leg press. If I looked up and my personal trainer was texting during my time I’d fire them. He couldn’t wait until after to return a text? It was embarrassing. The bad part is that the person was [...]

Cable television and the big missed opportunity

What year is it again? If you time warped from the year 2000 to your couch could you tell anything changed with cable? Not much has changed chwith the cable industry. They charge more, but they still don’t offer much in the way of progress. How in the digital age can our remote controls still [...]

You Can’t Find What You Don’t Know You Need

This really sounds like an obvious–and dumb statement. But a lot of companies I come across who are looking to make stake their claim online think that if you build it, they will come. Well they won’t. Not because they think your product sucks, its because they don’t even know your product exists. The web [...]

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