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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 19:42:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came across the Done Manifesto today, and found it quite compelling. The work of Makerbot founder Bre Pettis and collaborator Kio Stark, this 13-point manifesto is the ultimate speed-to-market approach in fast-moving tech spaces. Here&#8217;s a cool poster of the manifesto: This is a very startup-centric view of things, and it won&#8217;t fly in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mitchspeers.com&amp;blog=20105068&amp;post=344&amp;subd=mitchspeers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Content marketing: Embrace the chaos</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Speers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Bethune recently interviewed Paul Conley for his B2B Memes blog, in which Conley laments the way in which content marketing has devolved into self-serving marcomm crap from brands, and much the same from publishers. This mess is to be expected, because there are a lot of people who have devoted their professional lives to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mitchspeers.com&amp;blog=20105068&amp;post=330&amp;subd=mitchspeers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Will mobile commerce steal Black Friday?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 14:54:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Speers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Online retailers like Amazon and Gilt Groupe are set to sneak behind enemy lines en masse on Black Friday this year, and there is little brick &#38; mortar retailers can do to defend themselves. Bored shoppers waiting in long lines for a chance to pay will naturally pass the time by playing with their smartphones. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mitchspeers.com&amp;blog=20105068&amp;post=321&amp;subd=mitchspeers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 15:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Speers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The noted American poet Frederick Seidel published an opinion piece in the NY Times today that asks “Is The Era of The Motorcycle Over?”  He bemoans the fact that few young men now lust after delicious, dangerous sportbikes like his beloved Ducati. I was prepared to dismiss this along with nearly everything that&#8217;s written about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mitchspeers.com&amp;blog=20105068&amp;post=313&amp;subd=mitchspeers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 20:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve done time in the e-commerce trenches, and it amazes me that the fundamentals are still being neglected by so many retailers. Apparently, Jakob Nielsen is amazed as well. Nielsen recently conducted an in-depth e-commerce usability study, the first one he&#8217;s done in 11 years. Here&#8217;s the summary: &#8220;Today, poor content is the main cause [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mitchspeers.com&amp;blog=20105068&amp;post=304&amp;subd=mitchspeers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:32:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Speers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amazon, for all that it seems to be riddled with inefficiencies and discontented employees from the inside, is turning industries upside down. Book publishers are terrified of the online retailer, and with good reason. Amazon already makes it easy for authors to self-publish Kindle editions of their books and sell them through Amazon, while earning [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mitchspeers.com&amp;blog=20105068&amp;post=301&amp;subd=mitchspeers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t build 50 products, build one platform</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Speers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you haven&#8217;t read Steve Yegge&#8217;s eye-opening rant about the power of platforms vs. products, you should. He rambles and gets a bit technical (he is a Google engineer after all) but he brilliantly explains the value of building platforms that can be extended by others vs. building stand-alone products. This matters to much smaller [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mitchspeers.com&amp;blog=20105068&amp;post=287&amp;subd=mitchspeers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon&#8217;s brilliant power play: Kindle Fire</title>
		<link>http://mitchspeers.com/2011/09/28/amazons-brilliant-power-play-kindle-fire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 01:53:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Speers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jeff Bezos, quoted in the NY Times, said about Amazon&#8217;s new tablet “Part of the Kindle Fire is of course the hardware, but really, it’s the software, the content, it’s the seamless integration of those things.” Well, actually, it&#8217;s about Amazon&#8217;s new lightweight Silk browser, which is about to give them amazingly complete, detailed information [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mitchspeers.com&amp;blog=20105068&amp;post=279&amp;subd=mitchspeers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The ultimate data product: Awards programs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 14:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Speers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Awards programs are a great money-maker that can drive significant revenues for trade shows or trade magazines. In B2B, awards for large scale projects have the potential to pull in revenue from both the designer/architect/builder/engineer and the companies they bought components from. So why aren&#8217;t more of these awards programs investing in the next logical [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mitchspeers.com&amp;blog=20105068&amp;post=248&amp;subd=mitchspeers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Innovation starts with people, not tools</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:34:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Speers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many businesses struggling with how to grow digital revenue decide &#8220;we need (insert CapEx investment here)&#8221;.  Sometimes they are right. I consulted with a B2B publisher who wanted a new CMS, because their existing CMS was an unmitigated disaster, and actively impeded their ability to grow revenue or traffic. In their minds, the new CMS [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mitchspeers.com&amp;blog=20105068&amp;post=240&amp;subd=mitchspeers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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