Make me Strong

June 14th, 2007 11 Comments Noah

Background: Today I heard about a new drug, Provigil which helps you stay awake and improve memory retention. Almost sounds too good to be true. I searched online but didn’t find anything great. So I went to Daily Strength and looked up Provigil. I found tons of user reviews, what you can use the drug [...]

The Real Effects of Marketing (On Your Mother)

June 14th, 2007 7 Comments Andre

Have you ever heard people bad mounting marketing? Saying it doesn’t work. It’s not a science. It’s ineffective, etc. etc. Here’s an exercise you can do yourself or have your unbelieving friend do to settle this once and for all.
First of all, the credit goes to the late marketing genius Gary Halbert for this [...]

Top Web 2.0 Business Buzz Words

June 13th, 2007 37 Comments Noah

I was writing an email to Aaron from Box.net and I enjoyed using the word synergies.
I used it out of hatred. Then I started to daydream all the other buzzwords I hate:

leverage
web 2.0
web-centric

I went dry right away but then I thought who would know better than Okdork friends. What else do you hate?

Community Next Viral, from 0 to 10 million members

June 12th, 2007 9 Comments Noah

A month ago a reader named Adam contacted me to chat. I suggested a romantic walk around Mountain View and he was down. We held hands (not really) and talked about life, love, business and what he was up to. He quit his accounting job (yay!) and was living in the Bay Area not doing [...]

Goal Cards for Faster Progress

June 11th, 2007 5 Comments Andre

I’ve been setting goals for some time now and I am always experimenting with optimal way to keep my top goals in front of me. I’ve tried writing them out, printing them out in big fonts, keeping them on 3×5 cards. Recently I’ve tried something else that has so far proved it self to be [...]

Presenting help wanted

June 8th, 2007 10 Comments Rik

From the few presentations that I’ve done, I find that the single most useful tool that allows you to do a natural talk, instead of ‘going through a deck of slides’, is having a wireless presenter to click through. Not having to stand near your PC and being able to walk around and gesticulate makes [...]