Just read an interesting post about driverless cars and the change that would be needed in order to adopt such a concept. David Roberts writes that we don’t struggle with decisions that follow a reasonable progression of change: If we want to use less electricity, we swap our dishwashers and furnaces for more efficient ones. [...]

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IDEO David Kelley 60 Minutes Interview David Kelley gets it. The founder and CEO of IDEO summed it up brilliantly with the simple term – empathy. If you put empathy into how you create the customer experience you will win, period. Look at the reactions of peoples faces when they use your website and fix [...]

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I’m reading a book called Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance. If you haven’t read this book, I would highly recommend it! Pirsig does a tremendous job of explaining the differences between people who are interested in technology, want to know all about it, vs. those who use it but want no part of [...]

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I don’t like asking for help.  Unless it’s nearly impossible for me to do on my own, and not asking would be considered dangerous, perhaps even reckless and stupid. On the flip side, I like to offer help when I see someone that could use it, and like me they don’t really want to ask.  [...]

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The company Blekko was something of an inspiration to me, and other SEO’s, as they stood for what they believed should be openly available. They freely shared the kind of data that SEO’s use frequently, which I often shared with other SEO’s, energetic website owners who didn’t need much data, but liked to learn a [...]

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Getting customers to leave reviews about their experience gives us insight into how a business operates. It allows us to choose who we want to deal with based on how others have been treated. Some are good, others not so good, but even a negative review helps us. Negative reviews let us see what the [...]

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When we consider the amount of effort put forth daily into blogging, social media, relationship building, it’s no doubt we’re working hard, but what can we expect to happen as a result? We’re accustomed to acquiring tangible things to validate our time, effort, acheivement. If I went to college for 1-2 more semesters I would [...]

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When we think of advertising today we think intrusive, disrupting, uninvited, ignored and so on. The reason is because it literally gets in our way and our reaction is to find the little “X” in the corner as quickly as possible to shut it down and resume our original course of action. Anything that gets [...]

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Sometimes you come across really well executed company blogs.  I wanted to give a couple fine examples of such here in hopes that it might give ideas to those looking for ways to come up with really compelling blog posts. Zillow’s Blog I was instantly impressed at the topics being written about on Zillow’s blog. [...]

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Priceless Customers Come From Remarkable Experiences The people that are going to buy cars from your dealership want you to earn their business. People want celebrity type treatment, they want you to value their time, and not dream of wasting it. I’m not going to the extreme and saying that advertising is wasting their time, [...]

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