Archive | June, 2007

29 June 2007 ~ 19 Comments

2 Ways to Get Started With Personas (Part 1)

I was having a conversation with the experience team at a major “entertainment” company after my presentation at the Internet Retailer conference a few weeks back. We were discussing ways they could get started on Personas, and how to overcome the challenges they’d faced thus far. Given that this dialog took place just off-stage, we […]

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27 June 2007 ~ 5 Comments

Guy Kawasaki on Making $5M/yr in Your Underwear…

It’s pretty nice work, if you can get it: Markus Frind, the founder of PlentyOfFish.com is my new hero (James Hong of Hot or Not is a close second). Marcus spends about two hours a day in his underwear managing a free dating website that gets twelve billion page views a year. He is the […]

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12 June 2007 ~ 10 Comments

McDonalds Instead of Starbucks: Brand Heresy?

I know my audience. Or at least I thought I did. My bet is that this audience sits right in the Starbucks demographic sweet spot. I just read this in an article from Bloomberg: Marc Greenberg, a Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. analyst in New York, reduced his target price for Starbucks shares to $32 from […]

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