Patagonia is an amazing company. Their founder is a great climber and outdoorsman, their products are awesome and the brand is one that lives its values on its fleece sleeve. So, it’s not all that surprising that the company is now asking its customers to buy only what they need, repair what breaks and recycle [...]
Liz Strauss, a social web strategist and community builder at Inside-Out Thinking wants to know if your marketing is in an unaware, self-centered place? If it’s all about your product or service, then it probably is. If your purpose is to get to know your customers, ask questions about customers, not what they think of [...]
Virginia Postrel recently talked to Richard P. Rumelt, author of Good Strategy/Bad Strategy and a professor at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management, about GM’s desire to be more like Apple, a sentiment that’s hardly unique among managers of the world’s big consumer brands. According to the good professor, Apple’s magic isn’t magic at all, rather [...]
Bloomberg BusinessWeek is running a detailed profile on Dietrich Mateschitz, the 67 year-old Austrian marketing titan behind Red Bull. Concerning the recent U.S. launch Red Bull’s international lifestyle magazine, The Red Bulletin, the real journalists in the room want to know, “what’s the visionary behind a $5 billion-a-year soft-drink empire doing in the media business? [...]
Jason Fried of 37signals doesn’t work for free and he sees no reason for me, or you, to do so. Here’s an excerpt from his latest thought piece on Inc. Never be afraid to put a price on something. If you pour your heart into something and make it great, sell it. For real money. [...]
The business press loves to frame things, because frames make a nice presentation, even if they’re not always factual. At the same time, it can be a mistake to take a corporate titan at his word. Let’s have a look at Eric Schmidt’s word, delivered in Davos, Switzerland, home of the World Economic Forum. “We [...]
The Khan Academy is an online school with the mission of providing a world-class education to anyone, anywhere. Silicon Valley-based entrepreneur, Rajesh Setty, writing on Open Forum about the need to “do everything in your capacity to create something remarkable, not once but over and over again,” says: Salman Khan of Khan Academy is a [...]
OPEN Forum got my attention this morning thanks to a feature interview with Andy Hunter and Scott Lindenbaum of Electric Literature, a new literary magazine that’s making it big. One of the reasons they’re making it big: they practice media agnosticism. By offering more than the paperback option–in fact, by making their journal available on [...]
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