by Jeff Yablon | Mar 10, 2010 | Business Process, Marketing, Media, Search Engine Optimization SEO
Recently a client for whom Virtual VIP does marketing consulting asked me: Are There Too Many Blogs? My answer to him was a quick and decisive who knows? In trying to answer his question, I started by saying that there are way too many for most of them to be terribly...
by Jeff Yablon | Mar 9, 2010 | Business Process
Well, it’s happened again: a state has decided to penalize many of the small businesses operating in it by forcing Amazon.com to collect sales tax there. The “how ugly can you make your business change?” culprit this time around is Colorado....
by Jeff Yablon | Mar 9, 2010 | Business Process, Content, Development, Media
Ever wonder how your favorite television programs come to be on Hulu? Think about it: the studios that own the rights to those shows don’t like giving them away. They sell episodes on iTunes, they sell DVD collections of their programming, and they sell...
by Jeff Yablon | Mar 8, 2010 | Business Process
In today’s world, there are a lot of ways to get ripped off. Ever since software became a mass distribution item, companies have sought ways to protect their products from copying by people who hadn’t paid to use it. In the old days that was called...
by Jeff Yablon | Mar 5, 2010 | Business Process, Customer Service, Development
Think Customer Service is an oxymoron? Turns out you’re right. I’ve written on this topic before. From the supposed communications expert who told me that she didn’t want to hear my opinion, to the software company that thought a good way of doing...