12 keys to being excellent at anything

The Harvard Business Review has an article entitled, Six Keys to Being Excellent at Anything.  I actually haven’t read it yet, or at least at the point of writing this post I hadn’t.  I saw the title and thought that I’d like to read it, but then I thought it would be an interesting exercise…

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A quick rant: It’s not about the fan count…until it is

First, you need to focus on building an engaging, vibrant platform to interact with your customers.  Then you worry about the number of fans. But its not the other way around.  History tells us that get-rich-quick schemes don’t last.  Throwing out an amazing deal to get people to sign up for an experience that sucks…

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A book that every entrepreneur should read

Full disclosure, I was never really interested in the Zappos.com story.  I got what Zappos was, but until Amazon forked over $1.2 billion for the company I really didn’t understand the scale that it had gotten to.  Obviously, it was pretty freaking big. And I had seen their CEO, Tony Hsieh (pronounced “shay”), on Celebrity…

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Social is here. Mobile has started. Interactive TV is next.

I spend a lot of time on this blog talking about new technology and how that’s driving changes in consumer people’s behavior.  Most of the time this involves talking about new advances in social media or mobile technology. I’ve been spending time lately thinking about the next frontier in digital innovation.  What shift will happen…

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I have seen the future of location-based apps, thanks to Tungle

I’ve been pretty vocal about how I’m down on Foursquare.  Not their business model or potential, but how I’m personally struggling with Foursquare’s relevance in MY life.  At the very least its pointed out to me how much cooler my friends’ lives seem to be. And I’ve been equally vocal about my current WeRewards obsession…

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