Archive for the ‘Rants’ Category
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
So in planning an upcoming blog I was fishing for opinions from various community leaders. My favorite response was from Vlad Mazek whom suggested:
Admit defeat and start writing books or throw a conference or peer group?
-Vlad (mobile)
Since I'm not the most creative guy in the world he proceeded to share ...
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
Day 3 at SMB Summit and something is seriously missing. The SBS and EBS labs are awesome! The quality and quantity of content is beyond exceptional. I’ve seen 2 solid 10 hour days of SBS and EBS content and opportunity presentations by some of the actual product team leaders. I’ve ...
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
...if you don't do the right thing for your customers. In reading a dear friend's blog today about being sticky, Andy mentioned repeatedly that the key to success in small business is actually about putting the client's interest first. Check out this wisdom where Andy writes:
Well you don’t become a ...
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
Why does Dell keep going to channel events and embarrassing themselves? Last year they went before the same channel VARS and asked if we trusted them (see Spelled Dell or Duh!).
Karl Palachuk reports live from XCHANGE in SoCal that Dell's basic message (only 6 months after asking if we trust ...
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
Thanks Karl for making the declaration. I'm not sure how something that never existed can be over but I couldn't agree more either way. I may have slept through economics but I do know what my peers and customers are telling me. Between the news and the fear manipulation being ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Got a giggle our of this this morning's CompUSA ad.
I especially liked the "1 Year Limited Warranty" part. Man, I feel sorry for anybody that falls for this one.
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Friday, January 18th, 2008
I'm sorry you may not find this as funny as I did. Maybe it's that I'm back at the office at 9:30 PM on a Friday night pretending I can actually get caught up from all my time out of the office this past month but I found this the ...
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Well maybe they didn't get it from Wal*Mart but I'm sure it was worth all of the 5 cents they must have paid. The advice was that that they should turn powerful and effective technology for driving a small business into a cheap commodity by delivering it through companies like ...
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
It's no secret that companies like Time Warner Business Class Cable, Comcast and Cox communications (to name a few of the big ones) want to sell bandwidth and add-on services to your customers but now the game is changing as they move into competition with you. You knew it would, ...
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Sunday, November 18th, 2007
Microsoft has apparently conspired with Comcast to give away the key benefits of SBS and Centro with Microsoft Communication Services.
In a press release last week, Microsoft announced it's plans to have Comcast bundle some of the MS Live services that directly compete with the very same solutions many Microsoft SBSC ...
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