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Archive for December, 2005

Corporate Army Or One-Person Business

Monday, December 19th, 2005

Do you use “we” or “me” when speaking for your MicroISV or one-person small business? Is it better to act as if you are bigger than just one person? Or, is the fact that you are one person actually a distinct business advantage?
Yaro Starak discusses his thoughts on which way to go on [...]

Customer Support Woes

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Why is it that some companies just don’t get it?
Twice in the past couple of months I’ve experienced absolutely terrible service from large companies in completely different industries.
My wife and I recently cashed in a few whole life insurance plans. The company my wife’s plan was with simply required one phone call and a [...]

Marketing in Forums

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Wil Shipley recently went on a rant about “Sock Puppet Marketing”.
Apparently, he has a “competitor” on the Windows platform that is marketing his software in forums that discuss Delicious Library.
This was one of my concerns with posting to forums and blogs with an obvious intent to marketing a product. This [...]

Generating Forum Noise

Thursday, December 1st, 2005

Gianfranco Berardi brings up some interesting thoughts on posting in forums.
At one point I realized that I really shouldn’t talk like I knew what I was saying when I didn’t really know about the topic…
Which was good because I didn’t spend so much time on the forums and was able to direct my energies [...]

10 Questions for Small Business Owners

Thursday, December 1st, 2005

Rajesh Setty [Life Beyond Code] has written up a nice concise list of 10 Questions to ask yourself when you are small.
…it’s not always the right answers that help - it’s asking the right questions.
Article found via MicroISV