by Jeff Yablon | Sep 9, 2013 | Content, Influency, Marketing
Are you writing blog posts for other web sites, spending that time in the hope that you can attract enough traffic to yours to make it worthwhile? This ‘guest blogging’ has been a popular way for lesser-known people to build their web sites’...
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 23, 2013 | Influency, Marketing
If you were a little girl, I’ll bet I know which one of these guys you’d find more appealing. Well, it turns out that on Vine, Harry Styles way out-pulls Nicholas Megalis, too. But the creator of ‘mad gummy money’ is doing pretty well if you...
by Jeff Yablon | Aug 9, 2013 | Influency, Marketing
Here’s a fact: you’re either listening or talking, all the time. Every minute, every day, if you’re not the customer, you’re the product. And you need to decide, each minute (or however you break down the math, but you get the idea, right?)...
by Jeff Yablon | Aug 2, 2013 | Content, Influency, Marketing
A long time ago, I found myself playing with a piece of software that used “hypertext”. I’m talking a VERY long time ago; the Internet existed, but nobody was on it yet, and this hypertext-using software was designed to link things on a single...
by Jeff Yablon | Aug 1, 2013 | Content, Influency, Marketing
This week, President Obama sat for a short interview with David Blum, the editor of Amazon.com Kindle Singles. My compliments to Mr. Blum for conducting a back-and-forth with the leader of the free world that was actually interesting (you can get it here). It...