Archive for October, 2006

Engage Technology Focus Group

Sunday, October 22nd, 2006

The meeting with Engage ThoughtWare was extremely enlightening. The theory behind the technology is rather simple: Politics, Personality and Corporate Culture are some significant inhibitors to corporate success. By developing a system that eliminates as many of these as possible, productivity increases, profit increases, thus boss and employee are happier.
The technology has [...]

Can You Build Land?

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

When I was in 4th grade, I remember learning about the problem of landfill waste and drawing up what I felt was a grand concept to compost waste and create land in floating barges in the ocean. I drew up plans with areation modules, anchoring systems, etc. When I learned that the Japanese had [...]

I Tube… You Tube… We all Tube

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

I’ve been reading so much about the Goo-Tube craze and direction of video advertising that I thought I would try my hand at a little piece. I think what turned the tipping point was Paul Allen’s online video marketing blog. I went to You Tube and thought of a little piece… I tried [...]

Makin’ it happen…

Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

So we thought about it today and we decided we would follow Seth Godin’s advice and Make it happen!
It was a pretty simple idea. Will Donate for Clicks–We identified a non-profit partner we’ve been working with and pledged $.10 for unique click on a simple landing page. Here’s the copy:
This just takes a [...]

Keys to Good Signs and Sales

Sunday, October 15th, 2006

We finished off the first full month of the Worldwidestores, and we were glad to notice a significant trend in sales. Of course this is only a month of data, which in retail is only 1/12 of a really useful picture, but it has been good to see a positive regression line. Believe [...]

Are You Engage(d)?

Thursday, October 12th, 2006

We’ve all been to blog sites, forums or other community sites. More often than not, we havet to fish though mountains of unrelated issues to find what we’re really looking for.
Of course of lot large businesses have seen the benefit that could come from having a forum that actually helped to nuture the thought [...]

Can you Digg?

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006

We just posted our first article at Digg.com. Check us out and let us know what you think.
http://digg.com/offbeat_news/upcoming
This is our first experience in internet publicity at Worldwide Book Drive. We’ll see how it goes!

Worldwide Elevator Pitch

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006

Worldwide Book Drive, (WBD) has the infrastructure and model to support the largest database and resource of free books—in the world.
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WBD has developed a solicitation system to access the billions of dollars of new and used books before they are wasted in landfills or reach the open market. WBD efficiently resells, recycles, or redistributes [...]

Start-Ups Credit Dream

Tuesday, October 10th, 2006

Taking a credit card for a brick and mortar shop can be expensive. It requires that you set up a merchant account, get the hardware and usually you have to pay for an extra line.
Working with service brokers can add up over time and adds an additional step. Early [...]

Webdevelopment Outsourcing

Saturday, October 7th, 2006

In my opinion, development costs are some of the scariest expenses of a business that integrates the web. Generally speaking, front end isn’t too bad, but a back-end that allows dyanmic interface and webmastery, not to mention shoppingcart and customer accounts can add up fast…
I was first introduced to offshore outsourcing by John Jonas, [...]