Month: November 2010

Are you using a hammer to tighten screws?

I peeped in on #MM (Marketer Monday) chat on, well, Monday, and someone said something that caught my eye. They said, “It really makes me…

#30thursday closing for now

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking over the last two weeks, and I have decided that I’m going to put #30Thursday on hiatus, at…

Five features of an effective landing page

You have just come up with the PERFECT, and I mean perfect, Social Media plan. Your tweets are rolling. You’re getting retweeted left and right.…

The Gettysburg Address Was Crap

Special note: This post is dedicated to my friend Jason Sokol, who mostly jokingly (I think) asked if I was going to offer an analysis…

Jeb Stuart, The Panama Canal, and Revolution Agents

Boy have I got the job for you. Do you want to sit in a stuffy office with old strokey-beard guys playing with markers, typewriters,…

What Lincoln’s Generals Can Teach Us

I have been a Civil War nut, or actually a history nut, for as long as I can remember. One of my favorite books when…