Communications
…and another skill becomes a cheap commodity. Ouch.
My designer friends are gonna hate me for that comment. 8-) Sorry guys.
Check out Crowdspring, a marketplace for simple logos and other design work. Most of them going for well under $500 bucks. Some designs are certainly crap, but some aren’t so bad. Yes, you may get what you pay [...]
One Startup. 60 Seconds.
Just found one of Techcrunch’s new projects: http://pitches.techcrunch.com. It’s a site with 60 second videos of CEOs/founders of startups/companies giving their “elevator pitches” to the public. You can rate/comment on each.
I’ve heard of about 3 of the companies that have video pitches up, but I’ve found a few things worth checking [...]
Pricing and Negotiations
Scientific American has a great article “Why things cost $19.95″, focused on pricing of products and more specifically, our brain’s negotiations mechanisms.
University of Florida marketing professors Chris Janiszewski and Dan Uy suspected that something fundamental might be going on, that some characteristic of the opening bid itself might influence the way the brain thinks about [...]
Good news for this blog…
I just realized this blog, Seven87.com has been ranked on the Ad Age Power 150 for Marketing Blogs! Of course the Power 150 isn’t limited to 150 for some reason, as I’m currently in the 500’s, but it’s nice to see that I’m even on the list! Thanks to Ad Age and [...]
Usability (and organizational) Problems with the 2010 US Census
The US Census Bureau is getting ready to conduct the 2010 Census, the population count that will be used to calculate congressional districts and funding. The trouble is, they have usability problems with the handheld computers they were planning to use, in addition to the organizational communication issues you may expect from a government [...]
Focus, Focus, Focus
Here is a well written article on “focus”… well, that’s the point of it, but it’s about Microsoft’s lack of it.
In many ways I agree with the point of the article, Microsoft is a bit fragmented. While I also think that some of the efforts he describes as tangental, actually work out quite well. [...]
Wow, Austin IS wired…
Interesting that Austin is very much into the blogosphere.
A report released Wednesday by Scarborough Research reveals that Austin, Texas has the highest percentage of residents who read or write blogs. In Austin, 15% of adults had read or contributed to a blog in the past 30 days, while #2 Portland followed with 14% [...]
