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Bringing Back Boring
There have been exactly five posts I’ve been meaning to write over the past several weeks, as I trickle out this stream of consciousness. Somewhere between now and 10…
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Double The Traffic, Double The Pleasure
It’s been about a year, or a minute, depending on your colloquial dialect. I haven’t had any time to write out my stream of conscienceness, mostly because it’s been…
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“Unsilent Night”: How Phil Kline transformed Christmas caroling into an avant-garde walking symphony
Phil Kline is no technophile. He doesn’t own an iPod, even though he was involved in marketing the Shuffle. He doesn’t own a TiVo, because he doesn’t watch TV….
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Need for Speed, COVID-19 and Data Cleanses
Over the last two months, things have gotten crazy, no thanks to the coronavirus. One of the things, I was able to launch relatively quickly was the Coronavirus Press,…
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Affluent to embrace condensed TV programs on mobile devices
“Hi! I’m Sam the Cooking Guy. In the next two minutes, I’m going to show you how to make broccoli and beef. You won’t believe it , it’s so…
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Volume Solves Problems
Slow sales? Boost the pipeline. More contacts. More calls. More emails. MORE. OF EVERYTHING! Not enough sources for that research paper, that article, that study? Get more sources for…
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Georgetown Grad Turned Hitmaker: Meet the Producer Behind Dave Matthews, John Mayer, and More
Georgetown graduates do trials, not Billboard hits. Tell that to John Alagia and he’ll laugh out loud, because he’s been the mastermind behind nearly a dozen, recent hit singles….
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New Year, New Host
I’ve been a WP Engine (WPE) customer for years. Love the service. Amazing support. Awesome founder. But when you’re running a pet project on the back of a WordPress…
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Imperfekshun Magazine: Imperfectly Perfect for San Diego’s Streets
Magazines are flattering. They’re shiny, fun and fully disposable lumps of recycled trees. And because we live in the digital age, when everyone routinely checks e-mails and Myspace messages,…
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Extended Play 2020
In keeping with attempting to tackle something new every year that’s an extension of myself, I’ve got something in mind — an EP, or extended play for 2020. I…
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Strategic Planning & Forecasting
I used to have many false preconceptions of what I thought were relatively easy skills to master given X amount of time — anything from marketing to design and…
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What Monday Taught Me
Nope, not the actual day but rather the project management platform that I’ve been retargeted for. One of the little micro-interactions that sold me on trying it out was…
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Your site performs above average for male age 25-34
Headline up there comes courtesy of Google Analytics, which you’ve also got set up on your site/app, hopefully, lest you love navigating in the dark. With that in mind,…
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60-Plus Open Items And Counting
It’s that time of the month again when a few random thoughts spur some fingers to dance on this lovely keyboard laying in front of me. That is, in…
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Top 3 Audiobook Playlist on SaaS Apps
Mandatory post since life is busy… a good list on audiobooks for SaaS apps. The Messy Middle by Scott Belsky Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Technology Projects to…
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24 Notes on Instagram
Not a thorough post… more like sticky notes… Growing from 0 to 100 feels like a slog Growing from 100 to 150 still feels like a slog When you’re…
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Data Due Diligence
A funny thing happens when your web traffic starts to travel up and to the right … you tend to overlook the outliers. Sure, you’re aware that those tiny…
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The Reality of Setbacks
Last year ended on whimpering note for one of my passion projects. Just as I was recovering from the growth slump following two months of seemingly exponential growth, December…
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2018: Year In Review
It’s my freshman year for a hypothesis: hyperlocal journalism just needed to be approached from the right angle. True statement? All signs point to a resounding yes after launching…
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Cannibalizing Traffic … with Google AdSense
This one’s another one-liner: Add Google AdSense tags and watch traffic take a dive as it makes your site load like a slug. August was a great month as…
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Losing 10,000 Views … On Purpose
This one’s a one-liner: Upload a song to YouTube, let it gain traction to reach about 10K views, and then delete said video. Ok, let’s back up a little….
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Breaking 10,000 Plays On Soundcloud
As of this moment, I have 11,177 play racked up on Soundcloud, which sounds decent until you dive into the granular part of the stats. Given the whole story,…
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If You’re Explaining, You’re Losing
A couple of years ago, I built an online marketplace for musicians. It went so great, it wouldn’t even cover my server costs. Awesomesauce. If I had to do…
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Cut What You Love
The other day, I was trying to figure out why I’ve had so much cognitive dissonance in my head, regarding some of the features I’ve built for one of…
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1,000 To 10,000 Users
Long time, no type, so here goes another bloggity post/newsy update: The network of headline-driven media sites, aka The Press Enquirer, I’ve built over the past several months has…
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Feeling a Pulse
Content. There’s this phase in your iterative efforts of continuous content creation where you feel like Neo; you breathe in/out your matrix of content. You know exactly what you’ve…
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Lowering Your Bandwidth
By most measures, increasing your bandwidth ought to be a good thing. I’m not talking about internet speeds here, although that’s probably the key topic associated with the term….
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One-Minute Readings
As I’ve hunkered down to spit out a few posts, what I’ve come to notice is that with each post, it gets easier and quicker. It feels like riding…
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In Aggregate
For the most part, and backed by no data whatsoever, I think a good amount of folks juggle multiple things at a time, with each moving piece reaching its…
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Redundancy++
Redundancy++ … this is one of the topics on my writing list, mainly because I didn’t feel like writing about other topics today. I always thought the difference between…
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I Keep A List
I keep a list of all things I want to remember, because my mind goes off-tangent in about a gazillion-and-a-half different directions, when I see something that inspires me. That…
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No Comments
One ring. Two rings. Three rings. Four rings. Foot steps. Silence. Growing up, I’d always hear my dad say, “well, if it’s important, they’ll leave a message” just as…
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Everything Old Is New Again
It’s 2018, eons later after the entire designer community is already online, and I’ve just started dribbbling, thanks to my awesome CD’s invite. By uploading my blast from the…