by Jeff Yablon | Feb 13, 2014 | Influency
One of the most-distributed television stations just gave a lesson on how to find pornography. Think that’s a problem? Here’s a bigger one: WGN Chicago figured if they deleted their reference to it and denied involvement, it would cease to exist. As of...
by Jeff Yablon | Feb 10, 2014 | Influency, Search Engine Optimization SEO
When AOL’s CEO Tim Armstrong fired an employee publicly last summer, we asked: Is Tim Armstrong the Worst CEO Ever? And while worse examples of CEO bad behavior exist, Tim Armstrong felt then and has felt for a long time like the wrong guy to run AOL. So...
by Jeff Yablon | Feb 7, 2014 | Influency
In my last post I promised you more about Jason Calacanis’ new venture inside.com. I believe that Calacanis is missing the boat—as his previous media foray Mahalo did—because inside.com has no chance to make real Influency happen. We’ll get there in a...
by Jeff Yablon | Feb 5, 2014 | Content, Influency, Marketing, Media
Search Google for images associated with the word tease, and you’ll get predictable results; lots of young pretty girls in stages of near-undress will fill your screen. But that’s about all that’s predictable about tease images. Use the search...
by Jeff Yablon | Feb 4, 2014 | Influency, Marketing, Media
See these fun building blocks? You recognize the logos, and you know you can’t make marketing Influency without social media, but are you putting your marketing influency blocks in order? For that matter, do you even know which influency building blocks matter...