we’ve been paying ourselves for almost two months now (that’s a fancy way of saying we’ve not been paid). we’ve been splitting our time between building our product and pitching investors from Boston to Palo Alto. we’ve come by plane, car and maybe soon train. we’ve slept on couches and love sacks in Palo Alto [...]
Keeping these devices in sync is driving us crazy … We have a great solution for this problem. We are going to demote the PC to just be a device. We are going to move the digital hub, the centre of your digital life, into the cloud. -Steve Jobs, WWDC 2011 for apple-fan-boyz-worldwide this was [...]
good marketing is hard to find and in general most technology marketing makes me want to vomit. junk mail, landing pages that lead to signup pages, lots of text, white papers, flash animations, SEM & SEO. did i miss anything? i’m not alone either, brad feld vomits a little in his mouth every time he [...]
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this was passed on by a friend, it’s an interesting way to either get your homepage viral, entertain new viewers or annoy a customer on a mission. Checkout HEMA’s page … you’ll need to let it load. i don’t think backcountry.com will be ascribing to this anytime soon addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.clintgc.com%2Fblog%2F2010%2F02%2Fa-little-homepage-fun-from-hema%2F’; addthis_title = ‘a+little+homepage+fun+from+HEMA+%26%238230%3B’; addthis_pub [...]
two weeks into the new gig @backccountry.com and like any new opportunity i’m getting to know new faces, a new culture and some new technology. maybe i should use the word “different” instead of “new”. is ecommerce new technology?
it’s official, i’m now spending my days as a billy w/ the rest of goats at backcountry.com. like every new kid i spent my first week in gearhead training; a five day crash course in customer service and the labyrinth that is inventory mgmt. by the end of the week my trainers (shawn & angela) had me completing customer tickets, tracking order, handling miss-ships, refunds, exchanges and even chatting w/ customers about gear. pretty sweet! i have a profound appreciation w/ the frontline troops and the warehouse dudes.
when i got to mozy as employe number forty-something i often walked past josh’s office waiting for him to pull me into his office and ask me who the hell i was; this never happened.
i learned a lot of little things from josh, but i also learned one really big thing.
Communicate early and often (even if it seems no one is listening). addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.clintgc.com%2Fblog%2F2009%2F06%2Fpgm-tip-002%2F’; addthis_title = ‘PGM+Tip+%23002′; addthis_pub = ”;
If you are more MBA (yuck) than geek, get yourself some dark thick rimmed glasses; it won’t give you credibility but it will soften your predator image addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.clintgc.com%2Fblog%2F2009%2F06%2Fpgm-tip-001%2F’; addthis_title = ‘PGM+Tip+%23001′; addthis_pub = ”;
