A recent commentary piece by Alice Mathias in the New York Times says Facebook should really be called “Fakebook” — at least for the student users who first made the social-networking site popular. As she describes it:
Entrepreneurs and Irritable Online Marketing Syndrome
Every year, many one-man online Web sites and small e-tailers close their online business doors and drop out of the internet marketing race without giving themselves a fair shot at success because of Irritable Online Marketing Syndrome (IOMS).
Google On Carpal Tunnel Syndrome…
The Google blog has one of their informational posts from Doc Razavi about repititive stress injuries (RSI), better known in the office space by one type, carpal tunnel syndrome.
Dropped Jaw Syndrome, Your Fastest, Most Reliable Market Test
Business owners should be more like doctors. Forget selling and start asking your customers where they hurt. Broken leg? Ulcer? Empty wallet?
The Something-For-Nothing Syndrome
You’ve had a long day. You’re tired from working all day long and tired of having to watch every penny you spend. For the millionth time, you wonder what it would be like to work from home and make good money while you’re at it.
Beating Perfection Syndrome so you can write
It’s Saturday afternoon. Your partner has taken the kids to the park. You have a whole hour to write. Instead of which, you sit, staring out the window like Rodin’s Thinker in jeans and a yellow sweatshirt. Why aren’t you writing? A tiny item called Perfection Syndrome. You want whatever you write in this precious hour to be perfect.
The Webmaster Guilt Syndrome
People don’t like to talk about it, but it’s time somebody did. Chances are, you or someone you care about suffers from it. It’s Webmaster Guilt Syndrome, or WGS.
Dropped Jaw Syndrome, Your Fastest, Most Reliable Market
Business owners should be more like doctors.
Curing the Click Away Syndrome
We see literally hundreds of ads every week that arrive by email, are published in Ezines we subscribe to, or possibly banner ads on web sites. Most of them fit into the “click away” category and are not even read. Every now and then however, one gets our attention and we visit their web site, or request further information by email.
First, let’s examine the “click away” varieties. The best shot for a “click away” is sending multiple offers (unsolicited commercial email) advertising the same thing. Face it – if we didn’t “bite” on the old scam of earning millions to help get money out of a South African country, the odds are we won’t now. Sending the same or similar messages every day will get them automatically filtered out or simply deleted.
Multiple Income Streams: avoiding Starving Artist Syndrome
If you’re a creative, the chances are high that if someone is making a buck from your talents, it’s not you. We writers, artists and designers aren’t good negotiators. We love our work, and we’re happy that someone wants to pay us for it. It takes us a while to realize that while everyone else is doing nicely from our work, we’re not.