by dustin | Oct 14, 2005 | Business Management, Product Management
Not the 3 Rs of education (reading, writing, and arithmetic). How are two of those “R”s anyway? The 3 Rs of business. R&D HR and PR These should be the fundamentals of any business. R&D “Never ‘ally’ with a ‘vendor’...
by dustin | Sep 16, 2005 | Advertising, Branding, Marketing, Product Management, Seth Godin
Per Bruce and (of course) Seth, Gilette has announced they will unveil a 5-blade razor in early 2006. Somebody please remind me, what is the benefit of multiple blades? Multiple opportunities to cut myself? Originally, I believe they touted that you could get a smooth...
by dustin | Sep 9, 2005 | Branding, Business Management, Marketing, Product Management
Where are you, your company, your product, your brand, your industry?
by dustin | Jul 22, 2005 | Branding, Business Management, Marketing, Product Management, Technology
OK, I’ll admit that I’m an Apple fan. Having a background in graphics, I have been hooked on Apple products since I was introduced to them in college. I’m used to hearing how the sky is falling and Apple is hanging on by a thread. That’s why...
by dustin | Jun 25, 2005 | Business Management, Marketing, Product Management
Seth Godin has displayed four curves depicting typical product life cycles. He’s asked for names for each. Below, I’ve given my titles, descriptions, and names for each curve: The Phenom Unusually talented and charismatic with incredible exposure. But...
by dustin | Jun 17, 2005 | Branding, Business Management, Design, Product Management
I was talking with my brother-in-law a while back and we were talking shop. He is a manager within a large software corporation. Somehow the conversation lead him to discuss how their consumer software has changed over the last few years. Over the course of time we...
