I am killing the ATDC marketing circle and Internet circle. These were small monthly gatherings of startup types that were interested in either topic. I will continue to support Brandy Nagel who spearheaded the marketing circle effort. If anyone wants to engage with me about either subject hit the BookNow button in the right side […]
Continue reading →I have this theory. It's most likely not going to be real popular. But I have this theory. It's a theory about how social media marketing is going to evolve. The theory goes a little bit like this. Social media is small part of the interactive marketing pie. It's growing fast. But right now it […]
Continue reading →So I was having lunch with an entrepreneur that I respect recently. We started talking about email marketing. The conversation went something like this. Entrepreneur: How do you feel about email marketing. Lance: What do you mean? E: Sending out emails. L: Did they opt in to receive emails specifically from your company? E: No. […]
Continue reading →Google's Master Plan, originally uploaded to Flickr by jurvetson. with a hat tip to Erika Brookes of JungleDisk.
Continue reading →I have been involved in the Internet industry a long time. Much much longer than most people reading this ever heard of Netscape. Much much longer than most people reading this have been online. Well a long time ago in a place far far away the evil empire with its death star logo known as […]
Continue reading →Twenty ten is here. It's going to be a good year. With unemployment sitting at 10%, out of control U.S. government spending, tight credit markets, and wars waging in all sorts of places on the surface 2010 looks kinda tough. But it has to be better than 2009. When the financial crisis first hit back […]
Continue reading →It is not very user friendly. This morning I found a nice message in my mail box. A snippet of what it contained is below. Yes 336 messages awaiting my response. Each with its own little check box spread across 27 distinct pages. And to quote LinkedIn's help pages "Deleting an item from your 'Inbox' […]
Continue reading →Yesterday afternoon a friend of mine checked in to The Commerce Club on foursquare. I had never heard of the place so I two tapped down to learn more. Note the green special nearby call out. It led to this loyalty/promotional offer from the Red Moon Cafe. Interesting.
Continue reading →A social graph of Atlanta Startup Weekend people based on Twitter asw3 hashtag. Click twice to max. Courtesy of Russel Jurney based on Drew Conway’s work and a graphic bump from Blake Perdue.
Continue reading →This morning I woke up to find Ev’s avatar in my personal tweet stream. I was a bit taken aback. I don’t follow @ev. Did not understand why he showed up. So I followed the link and sure enough he does a fine job explaining this. Seems like Twitter has a bit of an retweet […]
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