by Jeff Yablon | May 10, 2013 | Content, Customer Service, Influency, Marketing
Influency takes a lot of work. And sometimes what was influence-y yesterday is less so today. This is why, even though there’s nothing about Influency that you couldn’t make happen yourself if you had the time, you hire The Answer Guy. Here’s a new...
by Jeff Yablon | May 6, 2013 | Content, Influency, Marketing
I love the coincidences that happen in the pursuit of Influency. Like coming across the picture you see here at a blog about Intellectual Property, just a few days after telling you how we handle image copyrights. Or that Seth Godin, a marketing legend who feels as...
by Jeff Yablon | May 3, 2013 | Influency
Generally speaking, I hate software patents. I believe they stifle innovation and make it harder to achieve Influency unless you’re a lucky company like Apple, sitting on a trove of patents, or you’re one of those folks making an entire business as a...
by Jeff Yablon | May 2, 2013 | Business Process, Influency, Media
Yesterday, Netflix lost the right to carry about 2,000 movies. Also yesterday, YouTube ‘declared victory’ over television. And this weekend, my fiancée and I are moving her daughter into an apartment of her own, where she has no plans to sign up for cable...
by Jeff Yablon | Apr 30, 2013 | Business Process, Development
When are you too old to be a programmer? As an old guy, my perspective is skewed. That’s OK; all of our perspectives on all issues are skewed by who we are. But is there an answer that ‘makes sense’? According to a new study, older people might...