When the hockey season began this year – after the lockout – the new salary cap shook up a lot of teams.
Blog to Win Friends and Influence People
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Dale Carnegie classic, How to Win Friends and Influence People. In the book, Carnegie outlines a timeless approach to building people skills. It’s a throwback to an era when civility ruled.
Football to Business: People are Everything
The great NFL football coach Bum Phillips allegedly said of legendary Miami Dolphins Head Coach Don Shula (pictured below) that, “He could take his’n and beat your’n; or take your’n and beat his’n.”
Get Down with the People
Today I participated in a meeting with a group of senior marketers from one of the largest global companies in the world.
Ebay Is For Selling Stuff, Not People
For the last time, people, you can’t auction off just anything on eBay – for example, yourself and your kids. Can’t. Can’t can’t can’t. If you’d like to auction yourself off (leave the kids out of it), try Craigslist. Just watch out for cops.
The Allure of Search: The Beautiful People Phenomenon
The reasons behind the surge in searches for “beautiful people” and its implications on society and the future of online beauty trends.
People To Spend Big On Net Fun
On-demand entertainment like gaming, videos, and music should see consumers spend more and more on them over the next five years, reaching $9 billion by 2010.
Email Is For Old People
Teenage Internet users are as likely as other users to send and receive email even if they often disparage the medium as something for “old people,” according to a report released by Pew/Internet & American Life Project.
A9 Now Has People Snoop, Er, Search
Amazon’s A9.com search engine now lets you be a giant gossipy snoop. Zoom Information Inc., a search engine engineered to collect information on people and offer automatic summaries about them is now the default source of people information on A9.com.
Testing Blog Awareness: Ask Other People
Blog awareness is, as expected, highest among bloggers themselves.