Yopo Productivity: Email Tips

December 31st, 2005 1 Comment Noah

Tip 1: Reduce incoming Inbox e-mail by diverting Cc’d messages to a personal folder
My assumption is that if I’m only copied on a message, it’s less important than when I’m a primary recipient. Diverting these before they hit my Inbox helps me prioritize and reduces my Inbox by nearly a third. I process e-mail in [...]

Death of a Startup: Online Video Sharing Website

December 30th, 2005 3 Comments Noah

If many of you don’t know I was involved in a website for online videos. This was my first time working on a serious start-up with highly motivated people. I was thinking about positives and negatives and wanted to touch on ways I thought affected our failure.

The initial idea was to provide a way to [...]

Yopo Interview: Ian Ybarra, The MC of Personal Development

December 26th, 2005 3 Comments Noah

A town of “no traffic lights� is the way Ian Ybarra describes Altamont, KS, which I mistakenly called a city. Ian is a special case from that small city where he ventured out to MIT and now works with master of relationships Keith Ferrazzi. I was fortunate enough to catch up with Ian’s hectic schedule [...]

Top 8 Marketing Posts of the Year

December 25th, 2005 No Comments Noah

I worked with Jack Yoest to sum up the best marketing posts we could find across the web. I am sharing 4 and he will share his great 4. Enjoy:

1- Techcrunch: Top 10 things you can do to get blogged
2- ANA Marketing Musings : Great Marketers Market Great
3- Jordan Rule: Discusses how to create a [...]

Damn you look good in those jeans

December 24th, 2005 No Comments Noah

I was shopping with my gf at Nordstroms a few weeks ago and I looked at the price of some of these fancy jeans and it actually said $250. I could hardly believe the amount. It did not come with a television, PDA or with a girl in the jeans. The more I looked around [...]

Okdork Writer Group aka OWG

December 23rd, 2005 4 Comments Noah

Ouuuwaga. I decided it was time to bring a few friends into the mix of writing. I created OWG (Okdork Writer Group) which is a group of people who will focus on specifics of the College or Yopo (young professional) markets. So please give a warm welcome to:
1- Wen-wen Lam, a marketer at LinkedIn: Who [...]