by Jeff Yablon | Feb 23, 2015 | Business Process, Marketing
When Google Wallet launched, I wrote a piece suggesting that it was a solution in search of a problem—or at least, the wrong solution to the wrong problem. When Facebook and Google started looking like pretty much the same thing, I suggested that the two monsters of...
by Jeff Yablon | Feb 7, 2015 | Business Process
It’s one of those idioms that, depending on where you use it, may not mean anything. “Having It Both Ways” is a simple idea, though; it means wanting all things. Taking a position but also wanting one that is at odds with it. In a world where you...
by Jeff Yablon | Jan 26, 2015 | Business Process, Content
Have you ever been involved in a conversation and suddenly realized that it wasn’t a conversation at all? You know; there’s this a-ha moment when you realize that whomever you’re speaking “with” is actually speaking at you? I’ve...
by Jeff Yablon | Dec 30, 2014 | Influency
Right after I posted yesterday’s piece on The Death of Social Search, I moved on to the rest of my day’s work, drumming up buzz within The WordPress Community for The WordPress Helpers. It was not my best day. I engaged a few influential WordPress geeks,...
by Jeff Yablon | Dec 29, 2014 | Content, Influency, Marketing, Media, Search Engine Optimization SEO
I’ve been quiet here recently; our moments-away launch of The WordPress Helpers has been keeping me busy. But you can bet that with the year drawing to a close I’ve been trying to think of a way to put a bow on the idea of Influency in 2014. Yesterday...