http://www.kellerblog.com Entrepreneurship and Business Management Wed, 21 Jul 2010 03:25:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Anyone who has done affiliate marketing can agree that keeping track of online publishers, affiliate networks, and numerous advertisers--across multiple platforms can be a nightmare. Although it's not especially common to hear online affiliates talk about how they keep track of the different customers and clients that they interface ... http://www.kellerblog.com/like-an-esilver-bullet-to-the-heart-of-online-affiliate-crm/ In today's fast-paced world of GPS enabled devices, the possibilities for life-saving technologies available for the everyday consumer have never been more accessible. Much like On-star provides real-time information regarding your vehicle's status, MY911 will constantly ping your location and status information to the MY-911 platform. While my911 ... http://www.kellerblog.com/my911-life-saving-app/ I recently reviewed the research work by Parasuraman, Zeithaml and Berry on the Conceptual Model of Service Quality. Their work suggests that regardless of the product or service in question, customers use relatively the same criteria to evaluate the exchange. Although their research was published in the Journal of Marketing ... http://www.kellerblog.com/products-change-but-good-service-rarely-does/ John Osher in inarguably one of the most successful entrepreneurs of age. What makes him so successful is his ability to replicate his success. In todays world where we like things packaged and clearly organized, he has set forth a list of 17 top mistakes, which if avoided ... http://www.kellerblog.com/17-mistakes-that-entrepreneurs-make/ This past few weeks has been an exciting blur. I recently had the opportunity to participate in the Utah Student 25 Event, where David Kasteler and I placed in Utah’s top 3 student entrepreneurs. Third place isn’t bad for a true social venture to place in a competition ... http://www.kellerblog.com/top-3-of-25-student-entrepreneurs/ This past week I, (John Keller) had a great opportunity to participate in the BYU Entrepreneur of the Year event. This is the first time in nearly 5 years that I've entered a competition like this. Amid building a number of different businesses, it was a challenge to ... http://www.kellerblog.com/byu-student-entrepreneur-of-the-year-2009-seoy/ It's always refreshing to hear when new businesses are starting in tumultuous markets. There are few industries that have been hammered worse that real estate. While the Utah real estate market hasn't been hit near as hard as Arizona or California, there's no question that it's seen better days. New Homes ... http://www.kellerblog.com/building-utah-1-utah-homes-at-a-time/ Every business that stores, organizes or shares large amounts of digital information, uses a data center in one form or another. Whether in house, (often found in a retrofitted closet or larger room) or outsourced, (just about anyone who has hosted a webpage somewhere has used a data-center space). ... http://www.kellerblog.com/premier-data-center-coming-to-utah/ On Tuesday, June 23rd, I had the pleasure and honor of attending the Utah Angel Investor of the year award banquet. It was fun to see and meet with so many of Utah's active Angel community. It was also really fun to see them bestow recognition to Greg ... http://www.kellerblog.com/utah-mentor-of-the-year/ This past Friday, I had the great opportunity to attend the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the year award. It was an inspiring program to see so many talented and driven entrepreneurs who had been successful in their ventures. Perhaps the most inspiring part of the program was ... http://www.kellerblog.com/community-foundation-of-utah-and-ernst-and-young-social-entrepreneur-of-the-year/