To quote Bill Cosby from an article in the AARP, "The wisest married men give in early. They get in touch with the wife side of themselves, and that's when they stop arguing." This blog is dedicated to all wise men. Not just the ones in touch with their "wife... Read more →
The Internet is an interesting place, if you really think about it. Never before in human history has there been such a ubiquitous communications medium. That is one of its strengths, and one of its weaknesses (cringing a little inside as I write that sentence; it's so cliche.) The Internet... Read more →
My office is overflowing with print magazines--fodder for future columns on my websites, and for blog content. The variety of reading material ranges from business publications I need to review for relevant technology updates (VARBusiness, Information Week, eWeek, CRN, Fortune, Entrepreneur, Business 2.0, Fast Company, American Demographics and more), to... Read more →
Heart palpitations. Eyes that roll, blink sporatically, and shine with anticipation. Fingers that move over the curved keyboard, alive--blood flowing like warm milk-- independent of the brain synapses guiding their movement over the keys; hit this key or that key, and then backspace to make corrections. A soft sheen, just... Read more →
The Internet is misbehaving today. I am tired of watching the hourglass spin, and spin, and spin, so I am going to keep this brief. I am going to share some puns...fun little sayings that you, too, can use to amuse the women who come to your website to shop.... Read more →
The latest report out of Direct Marketing News shows an increase in the U.S. population online. They're showing numbers that should make anyone doing ecommerce drool. For instance, 204 million Americans, out of 272.8 million, have Internet access at home. This according to Nielsen/NetRatings, New York. Take a minute to... Read more →
Who remembers singing "ring around the rosey" as a kid? Who remembers "row, row, row your boat"? I suspect many of us do. Interestingly, those fun kid songs have survived Y2K and the advent of real-time communication. Kids today are still singing them; along with "B-I-N-G-O, and Bingo was his... Read more →
"Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written by men? Are you aware that you are, perhaps, the most discussed animal in the universe?" So wrote essayist and novelist, Virginia Woolf, in her... Read more →
Once upon a time, when the world was very young, people looked out at the horizon, shaded their eyes with their hand, and nodded. Yep, they said. Flat. Then, along comes Christopher Columbus who, despite finger-pointing and laughter at his folly, sets sail out of Spain to discover...a new world.... Read more →
One of the frustrations I experience in my business as a writer is convincing clients that they need to have a local focus before they embark upon a global one. One and all, they insist that because the Internet is a global community, their website needs to show a global... Read more →