Monday, September 26, 2011

I Love Marketing: Live (the Joe Polish and Dean Johnson Annual) THANK YOU

Wish you were here, having a wonderful time

If I had been on a lazy beach in Bimini, and sent you that traditional postcard, it could not better describe the few days I spend last week with Joe Polish, (of Piranha Marketing, and others) and Dean Jackson, plus his invited World's Best Marketing Gurus. Dan Kennedy gave an (always amusing) very informative presentation on marketing to upscale. John Carlton also spoke. John is known as the world's best sales and advertising (i.e. marketing)

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Sunday, September 18, 2011

Exporting Green, 2 Presidents on the Bandwagon, Smart Grid & Energy Conservation, Algae & Biomass

Not Exactly News

Not "exactly" unexpected is the fact that Andy White is CEO of Trilliant, a global smart grid communications company is recommending that the USA export smart grid technology as a way of creating jobs at home and income (and balance of payments/trade surpluses on the domestic side of the balance sheet) through those exports. The only surprising thing, to me, is that he takes a brilliant idea, gets it published in Forbes (at least it appears here) but turns it into a narrow,

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Friday, September 2, 2011

Debt of 15 Trillion = No Big Deal

Cross posted from a Focus.com Discussion (yes, I wrote this)

It may seem counter-intuitive to say that 15 TRILLION in public debt is "no big deal", but the causes of it are an interesting slice of politics, and the solution (to reducing the debt as a percentage of GDP) is relatively simple.

You see back about a decade ago, we elected one of the good old boys from Texas and the folks that crafted his public image and got him elected were the ones who benefited from his administration and t

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