by Jeff Yablon | Sep 6, 2013 | Influency, Media
Renting books sounds like a great idea. In the case of textbooks, it is; those buggers go for way too much, so anything you can do to reduce costs sounds like a win. More generally, getting books for free at your local library sounds even better, but in that model...
by Jeff Yablon | Sep 3, 2013 | Business Process, Influency, Media
Why Make Trillions When We Can Make … Billions? Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, despite the identical hair style and similar bent on world domination, is way smarter than Dr. Evil. Today, The Man Who Will Change Journalism showed just how smart. Amazon has announced...
by Jeff Yablon | Aug 30, 2013 | Influency, Marketing
A long time ago I ran a restaurant. The guy who mentored me and had been in the hospitality business for a couple of decades shared his motto with me: inspect, don’t expect. I don’t care for that idea when it comes to people; I’d prefer to believe...
by Jeff Yablon | Aug 29, 2013 | Business Process, Influency
If there’s ever been an area where Influency matters, it’s video games. Once you have someone locked into your ecosystem they tend to stay unless something absolutely remarkable happens. Microsoft learned this when they announced the upcoming Xbox One...
by Jeff Yablon | Aug 27, 2013 | Influency, Media
When Google unleashed Chromecast, I told you that given the chance that you should grab one. And I’m standing by that statement; at just $35 the Chromecast is a send-video-to-a-TV game changer. But as time passes and clever programmers find ways to make the...
