14 Jul
Posted by: Martin Edic in: 24PageBooks.com, Blogging, Customer Service, PR and advertising, Rants, Reputation
Peter Shankman of HARO (Help A Reporter Out) has a great piece on valuing your time and not letting others devalue it.
This is the core driving value of 24PageBooks: Our time is too valuable to waste with filler.
BTW, if you’re not familiar with HARO, check it out. He is reinventing the PR business. And watch [...]
01 Jul
Posted by: Martin Edic in: 24PageBooks.com, Blogging, My Book Start-up, entrepreneurship
Tim Ferriss of The Four Hour Work Week fame was an inspiration to Mike and I as we evolved the 24PageBooks concept. The driving motivation behind it is personal liberation in both a literal sense and a spiritual sense. This recent blog post, though a long read, is worth spending time with- things don’t liberate [...]
25 Jun
Posted by: Martin Edic in: 24PageBooks.com, Blogging, Business models, My Book Start-up, Reputation, entrepreneurship
I just read a perceptive post on adding value with your products by Chris Dixon, an investor and entrepreneur. He rightly points out that start-ups should consider what value they’re adding to society with their products or services, value beyond the obvious usage value. I’ve been thinking a lot about this because I realized earlier [...]
11 Dec
Posted by: Martin Edic in: Blogging, Book Reviews, Reputation, Social Media Marketing, The Experience Architects
Franke is a visual blogger living in Toronto who researches, illustrates and writes amazing visual blog posts about personal action in the fight against climate change. Her latest tells the shocking story of how Canada became one of the largest greenhouse gas polluters on the planet (clue- oil shale sands are very bad).
Franke is a [...]
09 Dec
Posted by: Martin Edic in: Blogging, Business models, Product Development, Social Media Marketing, The Experience Architects, Uncategorized, entrepreneurship
Can a book project be a start-up?
I’ve been looking for a start-up to get involved with in 2010. I’ve also been working on a book proposal. It dawned on me that the book proposal is my start-up. The proposal is a business plan. The literary agent is a business development person. The publisher is both [...]
29 Jul
Posted by: Martin Edic in: Blogging, Business models, Facebook, PR and advertising, Product Development, Social Media Marketing, Social media monitoring, WTSsocial, WordPress
Catherine Taylor of Social Media Insider makes a point that no marketer should ignore. In her observation of the mommy blogger summit Blogher she notes that brands are building relationships with influencers rather than running ads.
Money quote:
“I’m going to quote a competitor to Mediapost, Advertising Age, but its packaged-goods reporter, Jack Neff, said it best: [...]
20 Mar
Posted by: Martin Edic in: Blogging, Facebook, LinkedIn, Social Media Marketing, Twitter, WordPress
This morning I responded to several direct messages on Twitter, made plans for meeting friends for drinks on Facebook, added an RSS feed to a Group I administer on LinkedIn and now I’m writing a blog post in Wordpress. I consider each of these platforms to be necessary for different reasons, at this point.
At this [...]