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Get Your Google Profile Tidied Up

Earlier, I Googled the local gyms in my town. I found the place I wanted, and just before I made the phone call, I realized that Google had something that said “write a review.” I did, and immediately after submitting it, there was suddenly a little review, with a “chrisbrogan.com” prominently displayed beside it. read more..

Sponsored Post- Online Shopping?- Pay Cash and Feel Secure with eBillMe

This is a sponsored post. My pledge to you is that I’ll never take a sponsorship from someone I can’t endorse, or from someone that doesn’t match the interests of this community. I also disclose every affiliation on my About page. Do you pay your bills online? Do you do online banking? Have you ever wondered read more..

Why Faceless Untargeted Ads Will Exist For a Long Time

This is from a 7 day test: Whatever Google Adsense felt like showing you above my posts via RSS: Hand-picked stuff I think you might like from Amazon: AdSense paid me $50. Amazon paid me under $20. One took no work. The other was me trying to find what mattered to people I care about. As I read more..

Here’s a Hint- Don’t Whisper

Here’s a brilliant move: place your customer service department in Bangalore, on VoIP lines to cut costs, and then have them call me to make a business transaction. Thank you, GMAC, keepers of my car loan. Because I really heard what “Susan” was trying to tell me this morning. Oh, I can guess: “You read more..

Small News Reporters

Riffing off “Are You a Reporter?” by Christopher S. Penn, and a little bit from All Tomorrow’s Armies, I’m thinking about “we are reporting smaller news.” What would that look like? The answer is ridiculously simple. You know who’s training tomorrow’s reporters? Steve Garfield is on his Off on a Tangent blog. Look how read more..

How Alltop Powers Bloggers

Guy Kawasaki isn’t just the author of Reality Check, his latest nifty book about kicking your competition’s butt. He’s a tinkerer and entrepreneur. I’ve been in love with his Alltop since it first came out ( I first talked about Alltop here). As time goes on, I think of more ways to use the read more..

2008 Holiday Buying Guide

Okay, I tried this the other day, but somehow couldn’t embed it neatly. So instead, I’ve rebuilt the entire guide off-site at Amazon directly. If you have some social media types on your holiday list, or if you’re looking for a way to spend some of those gift cards that people buy because they read more..

All Tomorrows Armies

Today, we wonder how newspapers survive. Today, we wonder how the music industry will survive. Today, we wonder how GM and Ford and the rest of the US auto industry will survive. We worry about a lot of larger scale creations. We used to worry about larger computers. We no longer do. We used read more..

Cafe-Shaped Conversations

The thing with all this talk about social media and how it changes marketing is that I don’t think you’re going to like it. I don’t think the end state is what most companies are thinking about. Google doesn’t buy other companies because they seem neato. Pepsi doesn’t want to talk with a few read more..

The Myth About Batman

In a way, this is a Thanksgiving story. The story of Batman is legendary: young boy sees his parents killed, and grows up determined to fight crime to right that wrong in perpetuity. As he develops, Batman learns martial arts, learns scientific methods, becomes a detective, and combats ever growing threats to his beloved Gotham read more..