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IE6, Why It Must Die, and What You (Yes, you!) Can Do About It

November 18, 2009

IE6. Say that word to any computer geek, and you’re almost guaranteed to get a poisonous look. IE6 stands for Internet Explorer 6. Microsoft released it in 2001, shortly after the wide distribution of Windows XP. 8 years later, it’s still got a 15-25% market share, depending on which statistics you believe. What’s wrong with [...]

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How And Why To Dance Around In Your Socks

November 17, 2009

I woke up this morning and wanted to go back to bed. Usually I can get by with 7 hours of sleep. Apparently not today. So I did what I normally do, and set my alarm clock back a half hour. Still not enough. Another? Still no. I slept 1.5 hours extra, in 1/2 hour [...]

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“Serial Entrepreneurship” And Being Who You Really Are

November 16, 2009

I wince whenever I hear or read someone calling themselves a “serial entrepreneur.” To me, the whole concept of “serial entrepreneurship” (and yes, I’m going to keep putting it in scare quotes) is unreal and screwed up. Put on someone’s website, it telegraphs un-trustworthiness and – frankly – skeeviness. I don’t want to do business [...]

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Review: Google Wave (Public Preview edition)

November 11, 2009

Google Wave. If you’ve been living anywhere except under a rock or somewhere in a cave on the Afghan/Pakistan border (which would count as being under a rock), you’ve heard the hype. Is Google Wave really “the wave of the future” – as it’s been touted? No. Why do I say that? Let’s take a [...]

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Giving Up

November 10, 2009

I’m working on a review of Google Wave to be released tomorrow – so do send me your questions or leave them in the comments, if you have any. The review was slated to come out today, but a more important topic got me thinking this morning. Here’s how it started: Charlie Gilkey and I [...]

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Return on Investment (or: How love puts food on your table.)

November 9, 2009

I’m always in the pulpit on this blog about giving value without demanding a return – but sometimes it really is nice to get something back for all your efforts. And let’s face it – none of us would be in business if we didn’t want something. Figuring out what investments you’ve made and what [...]

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How NOT to SEO. (In which I receive a crappy pitch from a John.)

November 4, 2009

Yesterday I received what was possibly the worst email pitch I’ve ever gotten. It looked like this: from SEO Services sender-time: Sent at 12:40 AM to: info@inspir-it.com date: Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 12:40 AM subject: Regarding Link Request Dear Webmaster, I have visited your site http://www.inspir-it.com and found it quite impressive. I am in [...]

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Puppet Shows and Overnight Success

November 3, 2009

I don’t usually listen to people’s conversations while I’m on the subway. Two men stood by the door talking. The younger guy – obviously upset by a conversation he’d been having with an artist friend of his – was complaining loudly about some success or other that the arrogant SOB had had. The older guy [...]

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Is Your Sales Funnel More Like a Sales Sieve?

November 2, 2009

I want to adopt a Golden Retriever. By all accounts, I’m a fantastically qualified candidate. I have extensive dog ownership experience, have trained several dogs (including greyhounds straight off the racetrack, who had never even seen a house before), and have volunteered for years at various breed rescues. I work from home all day, and [...]

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Things Entrepreneurship Teaches You (or: OMG Darth Vader’s in that cave!!)

October 29, 2009

I’ve been working on side projects all week instead of what I ought to be working on. Instead of what I’d like to be working on. Why have I been working on side projects all week? Because Darth Vader is in that cave, and I’m scared to go in. If you haven’t seen the original [...]

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