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November 28, 2008
Ed Kohler Tim the IT Guy brings up an interesting point about how companies could save costs in a down economy: fire people who monopolize your internal IT departments due to technical incompetence: [Bosses]can no longer afford to pretend that it's okay...






November 25, 2008
Ed Kohler Did you get to play the stock market game when you were in school? If so, you probably learned something about how to analyze companies, pick stocks, and balance a portfolio. But I'm willing to bet that you would have...






November 19, 2008
Ed Kohler Laurel Hart, Senior Fellow at The Logos Institute, brought up an interesting point on Twitter after giving a talk about social media to a group of grad students at NYU: First, I don't know if Laurel happened upon a group...






November 16, 2008
Ed Kohler When people first come online, they seem to bring some of their offline behaviors with them. For example, if they want to look up a business, they might turn to the online yellow pages for information. However, as the above...






November 11, 2008
Ed Kohler The following quote found within a Wall Street Journal article on Facebook advertising really jumped out at me: "I haven't heard of anyone purchasing something off an ad on Facebook," says Angie Tulgetske, vice president of RE/MAX Preferred Choice Properties,...






November 10, 2008
Ed Kohler Amazon has offered a "Subscribe and Save" features for quite a while now where customers receive a discount if they'll agree to automatically purchase a given product on regular intervals. This feature seems to be most common among grocery and...






November 7, 2008
Ed Kohler In real estate, some of the easiest business to win is generally from your own network: your family, your friends, and friends of theirs. After that, you're generally prospecting against other agents who have their own networks, so you're essentially...








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