Monthly Archives: December 2010

HOWTO: Test Your Email Marketing Campaigns

Have you ever sent an email marketing campaign only to discover it looks like crap when it lands in the recipients inbox?

Would it surprise you to learn that the greater majority of companies (from small to very very large)… Continue reading

Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action

Simon Sinek has a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership all starting with a golden circle and the question “Why?” His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King, and the Wright brothers — and as a counterpoint Tivo, which (until… Continue reading

Women’s Lib was a Blue Ocean Waiting to Happen

Remember the traditional style Christian vows? The man would promise to love, honour, and cherish. The woman would promise to love, honour, and obey. Regardless of your standpoint, the words spoken and commitments given have changed for ever.

Now check… Continue reading

Social Media Seasonal Sewerage

Are Social Media Christmas greetings the latest seasonal spam?

OK. I can understand that some people are genuinely well intentioned in their desire to wish all 1,000, 5,000, or 2 million people in their social networks all the very best… Continue reading

Clayton’s Responses

Remember Clayton’s non-alcoholic beverage that supposedly tasted like Scotch in the same kind of way that McDonald’s tastes like a hamburger? The marketing slogan was that it was the drink you had when you were not having a drink.

Have… Continue reading

Freedom suffers thanks to closet sex workers

Every time some out of control judge or politician (let’s face it that’s most of them) takes it upon them self to make a pathetic ruling or push through some ridiculous legislation, our freedom is reduced a little more. Regrettably… Continue reading

Freedom goes further down the gurgler

20 years on, different continent, different circumstances, same old story. Australians need to wake up and smell the stench of over-regulated bureaucracy that is killing freedom in this country. Marius Müller Westerhagen said it well back in the 80′s in… Continue reading

Too much communication, not enough connection!!

We build big networks without ever really knowing the people in them!

We subscribe to each others blogs but rarely read them, we read each others tweets … or not!

We subscribe to each others mailing lists and auto-filter them… Continue reading

Nine Key Points of Blue Ocean Strategy (BOS)

I am often asked what is Blue Ocean Strategy or what is a Blue Ocean Strategist. The most effective way to explain this is to take you directly to the source at www.blueoceanstrategy.com and offer the following nine key points… Continue reading

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