The Great Coffee Marketing Mistake

April 22nd, 2007 15 Comments Noah

I am currently chilling at The Ugly Mug in Santa Cruz for a day of thinking and catching up at work.

I am not sure if this is intentional but every hour or so the coffee makers aka baristas accidentally make a fancy drink and give it away to a patron. Think about how great that [...]

Words Speak Louder than Action?

April 20th, 2007 11 Comments Noah

Dan Brown, author of Da Vinci code takes his words and makes millions of dollars. I put down and mix some letters together and you feel a different response. Steve Pavlina writes words of inspiration that should inspire you.

How do you get anything out of this?

How does someone read a motivational story, get inspired and [...]

Giving out Earth Gifts to Humans

April 19th, 2007 8 Comments Noah

Grouporation = Group + Collaboration

Company: EarthLink is a total communications provider. You probably know we do ISP, communication apps, free e-mail, tons of great stuff and a customizable start page (new version currently in preview mode).
Problem: I run Earthling, EarthLink’s official blog. EarthLink’s PCFineTune product team was kind enough to give me one of their [...]

How to recruit college grads

April 18th, 2007 5 Comments Devin

The following post is brought to you by me, Devin Reams. Noah and I plan, podcast and poke fun at each other all the time. That makes me qualified to write on his site.
It’s that time of year where taxes are done (hopefully), classes are wrapping up and many are graduating. It’s scary, it’s exciting, [...]

Business Card Pre-Mature Ejaculation

April 18th, 2007 23 Comments Noah

Yesterday, I was fortunate enough to speak at Web 2.0 and met a fair amount of people. Thanks Dave for hooking it up. The audience was mostly asleep but it was still great speaking and I hope people got some value out of our panel. But the point of this article is about some of [...]

Leveraging Influence to Create Greater Influence

April 16th, 2007 6 Comments

There’s two Noah’s in my life. I like them both a lot. They’re smart, ambitious, free-thinking guys. One is Noah Brier. The other is Noah Kagan. Yes, the author of this blog. I met them both because of my blog and my company.
Noah is the first guy - that I know about - who’s [...]