Archive for June, 2008
Experiences This Week
I have had 3 bad experiences this week:
Elance – My Vendor is giving me a load of crap about some software I contracted them for. In essence they are not doing what they signed up to do.
Amazon 3rd Party – They sent me something that does not work, and now will not accept a refund, [...]
What do you sell?
I heard something interesting today. You don’t sell a product or a service, you sell a feeling to someone.
Yes, so that iPhone, new gadget, website, robot, part, TV, etc. is nothing more than a means to an end, a feeling.
Depending on how well you sell that feeling, how well you sell that consistent experience, you [...]
The Value Scale == Time
When thinking about pricing for a product/service, I often start with what other things cost to determine the value offered per dollar.
In robots for example, you can get a basic sumo robot kit for about $100 or you can get a RoboNova for about $1000. The value spread on this is a little disproportionate to [...]
E-Myth Revisited – A Review
I enjoyed reading this book, though after about a few chapters I started to get the feeling I was listening to a therapist rather than a business coach.
This book is heavy into the psychology of starting and running a business. It’s about the way you think and how you mindset changes from someone that’s conditioned [...]
J2EE Makes Programming Harder…
After a year off of working with J2EE (WebSphere) I started again this spring, but this time with Java 1.5, JSF and BEA. To my dismay, nothing has changed. For the most part the IDE, the frameworks, the amount of XML and inconsistent behavior all remain. Instead of making you more productive as a programmer, [...]
Don't Need Microsoft Any More…
This week-end I decided enough, was enough. I did not want to endure XP anymore, and did not want to struggle with Vista. I was tired of the 6-month computer rebuild and the drivers, and the crashes, yada, yada, yada…
Today I purchased a new MSI board with a Duo Core E8400 chip with 4GB of [...]
5 things I have learned about marketing.
Over the past few years of trying to sell robots, websites, etc. I have learned a few things about marketing I thought I would share:
1. It’s not all marketing, but at first it is
Probably the best and worst movie of all time, Field of Dreams (If you build it they will come). This has probably [...]