by Jeff Yablon | Feb 28, 2014 | Influency, Marketing
I have a new hero. His name is Rocco Digrazia, and this week he showed the Arizona State Legislature how stupid they are by banning all its members from his Rocco’s Little Chicago Pizzeria in Tucson. Talk about Influency! I last called someone my hero when...
by Jeff Yablon | Feb 25, 2014 | Influency, Marketing
Imagine owning a private company. You’ve sold a small portion of that company to Venture Capitalists for a bit under $60 million. And then suddenly you get acquired in toto for $19 billion. If you’re WhatsApp, that’s not just a dream. A few days...
by Jeff Yablon | Feb 21, 2014 | Business Process, Influency
Rick Pitino is an idiot. Let me be clear that I have no insight into the highly successful basketball coach’s IQ, and I certainly don’t mean the statement literally. But speaking off the cuff and communicating in a manner that’s designed to get both...
by Jeff Yablon | Feb 19, 2014 | Business Process, Content, Influency
This one, as my hipster son would say, is gonna be weird. Back in the days when I was a journalist, one of the people I worked with from time to time was Gina Smith. I remember a conversation that Gina and I had one night. I was President of The Computer Press...
by Jeff Yablon | Feb 18, 2014 | Design, Development, Influency, Marketing
One of the questions our clients ask me most often is whether they should have an App. “There’s an App for That” notwithstanding, having an actual App is often both overkill and … just plain the wrong call. A couple of weeks ago I came across...
