Why is it that every article that proclaims ”you can’t make money at blogging,” is written by someone who is NOT an entrepreneur?   Coincidence?  Or cause and effect? The latest such article is by the journalist formerly known as Fake Steve Jobs.  For almost two years he wr...

Creating and uploading video really isn't as hard as you may think. With simple, inexpensive tools like The Flip, you can be shooting and posting video with very little investment of time and energy. YouTube has 72 million monthly visitors -- don't you want to reach some of those people with your me...

Are you on board with online video in your marketing mix? If not, you really need to consider it. 72,000,000 people visit YouTube every month and watch an average of 4 hours of video online. Your video could be one of those they watch. Here are some more YouTube Stats... It's not hard or expensive t...

"What we’re essentially doing is creating the retail environment of the future. Imagine you walk in and instead of seeing printed materials it’s all digital screens." Those who have seen the movie Minority Report, in which Tom Cruise is tracked by adverts wherever he goes, won&...

… there is still sturdy demand for Treasuries from abroad; foreigners refused to dump them even when they lost confidence in mortgage-backed debt last year . But America cannot take things for granted. [1] The full Economist article has a lot more nuance, but the underlying message is clear. S...

Have you ever thought about how your customer service can affect search results for your business? Before the Internet you could make a customer really mad and they couldn’t do much about it. They could tell everyone they know not to go to that business, but eventually their anger would pass a...

The news wires, Twitter and emails were all a-flutter this morning with the big announcement that Pfizer are buying Wyeth after agreeing a deal yesterday.  The announcement in the WSJ this morning summarises the position admirably when they quoted Tim Anderson of Sanford Bernstein: “While a WYE a...

Canada is not in a depression. There are no breadlines, no hobos riding rails , no agricultural collapse, no banks closing their doors, no dustbowls, no shanty villages on the outskirts of the town. We are in a recession — a serious one, but still a recession. We’ve been in recessions be...

Still, while such a transformation is, to put it mildly, undesirable, the policies are necessary. As outlined in these pages, the U.S. and many of its G-7 counterparts over the past 25 years have become more and more dependent on asset appreciation. Under the policy-endorsed cover of technology and ...

The Twists are old Asia hands, and they remind me that, for whatever reason, Western calendar year-end is a big deal for the host cultures of the foreign central banks that have been buying America’s debt over the last few years. Their increasing appetite for single-malt has become legendary a...