I’ve reached the point in my professional life when I’ve decided to price on the value of services delivered no matter the time required to deliver the service (end result). The rest of this post explains why time tracking is bad and value pricing is good. I’ll have future posts on the challenges and overcoming [...]
I had an interesting discussion with a friend last night. He knows I’m looking into mobile marketing and fundraising and we talked about text messaging. The rates of growth for text messaging are mind boggling. A recent article in the Star-Telegram quoted a Verizon rep as saying that text messaging has increased 20% in each [...]
Teaching your child to tie his shoes? Is it possible? Yes. Recently, the WSJ ran a story on outsourcing so much in one’s personal life. One company that helps you get things done is GetFriday. You can outsource quite personal tasks such as arranging party details, paying bills, setting up appointments, and so forth. [...]
I’ve long been a fan of Delta. Since I live in Lexington KY, I grew up flying Delta. However, as I sit on a very crowded flight to San Diego, I’m beginning to reconsider. First, allow me to say that I understand revenue drivers — especially if Delta is coming out of bankruptcy. Ryanair is [...]
My children will not remember a TV without a Net connection. The boys are 5 and almost 2. By the time they are 10, all TVs will connect to the Net natively. Sony just released a new TV that reads RSS channels. This means the couch potato will be able to surf from a La-z-boy [...]