It’s always amusing to see even sophisticated e-tailers such as Amazon make some bonehead mistakes. At minimum, it helps me feel better when I realize I’ve overlooked something obvious. So, [ … ]
Month: October 2014
Take the Win/Loss Poll….pretty please.
Not only do very few PMs/PMMs conduct Win/Loss analysis, but it seems even fewer want to spend 10 seconds to take the Win/Loss poll I’m conducting. Thanks to those of [ … ]
This is your blog on Wordle
I’ve always been a big fan of new meaningful ways to represent information. Perhaps it’s because I spent a number of years of my career working in companies that focused [ … ]
Win/Loss? Anyone?
The results of the 2008 Product Management and Marketing survey by Pragmatic Marketing (whew that’s a mouthful), are now out. Lots of good data to mull over, but like previous [ … ]
Godin vs. Gladwell: Fight!
In Malcolm Gladwell’s most recent book, Outliers, he uses a metric of 10,000 hours of effort as a measure of time it takes for someone to master their chosen profession [ … ]
What do we call this mess?
It’s been difficult to find a good term to describe the economic climate we’re in now. As difficult as the R-word was for political leaders 6 months ago, having said [ … ]
Do This or Die!
A couple of days ago, I recommended one of my favorite radio programs — The Age of Persuasion — to all of you. I also mentioned that that one of [ … ]
Give me a good product any day
The worst thing you can be given as a marketer is a good product to sell. So, I’m going to channel the Cranky PM here a bit. Though I doubt [ … ]
Product Naming Fail? Or Brilliant Marketing Ploy?
So, the invention seems pretty good, but who thought up and agreed to the name? Is it just a dumb name or is it a stroke of genius for viral [ … ]