by Jeff Yablon | Nov 19, 2012 | Business Process, Customer Service, Influency
Regular readers know that I lost my sister a few months ago. It was and has been, either surprisingly (you’re both in your 50s!) or unsurprisingly (I lost my sister!) a tremendously impactful and painful thing. Barbara and I were close and in pretty much...
by Jeff Yablon | Nov 16, 2012 | Business Process, Influency, Marketing
The last time I suggested two business titans came from the same place, I had my tongue planted firmly in my cheek. Today, let’s go literal: Chris Brogan and Julien Smith have merged into one guy. That’s Chrisjulien Brogansmith at the top of this post. Mr....
by Jeff Yablon | Nov 15, 2012 | Business Process, Marketing, Search Engine Optimization SEO
Hubspot’s Brian Halligan is one smart dude. I’ve written about Hubspot several times, and once before, I wrote about Hubspot’s CEO. As in that piece, today I’ll be pointing you to a video of Brian Halligan, this time talking about a very cool...
by Jeff Yablon | Nov 12, 2012 | Business Process, Influency, Marketing
Remember the good old days of eBay, when you could pick up $500 software for $30 or $40? Those days are back—if “I got an unexpected but not very exciting bargain” qualifies as the same thing to you. The question is: does this matter? Is it real business...
by Jeff Yablon | Nov 9, 2012 | Business Process, Content, Influency, Marketing, Search Engine Optimization SEO
As smart as I’ve convinced me I am, at the end of the day I’m insignificant. The picture above says it all. Each of us is lost in a much larger world, and when it comes right down to it any business owner knows that his or her goal is to get just a little...
by Jeff Yablon | Nov 8, 2012 | Business Process, Influency, Marketing
If you know me, or read my words here with any regularity, you know that I tend to say what’s on my mind. Political Correctness leaves me cold, and I truly believe that we’ve become far too genteel a society—or at least spend too much time pretending we...