I have. I failed at it every time when I hired a person specifically for sales. However, when I hired someone for another position and migrated that person into a sales position, we found mutual success. Jim Berkowitz’s CRM blog cites an article from Selling Power. His post is a good intro to the lengthier [...]
I’ve been using Carbonite for a few weeks now and it’s been backing up ~25 gigs of my data. It’s been really great not having to worry about the archiving and security of the files. Between the time I started using it and now, a friend had his laptop stolen. He lost pictures and videos [...]
The new Spreadsheets service from Google is great for our family. It’s free, online at all times, backed up, and accessible from any PC I visit. This means that my wife and I can edit our family budget, gift lists, etc… I can open up the file for her to view and/or edit. No need [...]
Our phone industry continues to change. Skype announced that it is providing free calls from Skype to any US-based landline (POTS) or mobile number through the end of the year. This is amazing. There are over 100 million people using Skype — many of whom probably would like to call the US for business or [...]
The other day, I spoke with an engineer I respect. He and I were talking about a number of issues, but one still resonates with me: Are we, as businesspeople, truly ready to pay for value instead of time? We talked about it in the aspect of a computer engineer’s time to perform tasks and [...]