by Jeff Yablon | Nov 21, 2014 | Business Process, Influency, Marketing
Despite his name have come up here over two dozen times, I have at best only a passing interest in model/wooden actor/über-investor-cum-pitchman Ashton Kutcher. But this week, Ashton Kutcher made what can only be called an Ashton Kutcher Uber Mistake. How big a...
by Jeff Yablon | Oct 24, 2014 | Content, Influency
Here are four of the ugliest words you can speak and still make it past pretty much any censors, anywhere: I Told You So No big deal, right? Ignore the nyah-nyah-nyah element of the phrase “I told you so”, and the words mean something simple. Not today....
by Jeff Yablon | Oct 20, 2014 | Content, Influency, Marketing
Today, at least for fifteen minutes, Monica Lewinsky is the Queen of Twitter. That’s a joke, of course; Monica Lewinsky is and will forever be known for the less-than-fifteen-minutes she spent destroying an otherwise-lovely blue dress with the help of...
by Jeff Yablon | Jun 17, 2014 | Business Process, Influency
It’s a pretty good bet that you own something from—or at least something reminiscent of—IKEA. Perhaps the world’s foremost expert at producing and distributing inexpensive furniture and home goods and teaching people how to outfit small spaces to feel like...
by Jeff Yablon | Jun 14, 2014 | Business Change Highlights, Customer Service, Influency
If you missed me last week, it’s because I did something very stupid … followed by something smart. First, I trusted a company that deserved no such trust, and then I started paying them a lot more—just so I could get customer service. There are two...
by Jeff Yablon | Jun 2, 2014 | Content, Influency, Search Engine Optimization SEO
Most times if something you read begins with a disclaimer, you can ignore it. Well, I’m not an attorney, but you’re going to want to stick with the following legal ramblings because The Internet Has No Laws. There have been several developments in the...
