17 2012 July
Dollar Shave Club Offers The Cure For Overmarketing
My current razor has three blades, but I am sadly certain that at some point pretty soon that will seem laughably low. The razor blade...
Read Now21 2012 May
How To Be A Better Entrepreneur, Friend, Parent, Marketer & Human
NOTE FROM ROHIT: Likeonomics is now AVAILABLE – if you read my previous post and decided to wait to buy it because I asked you...
Read Now04 2012 May
5 Marketing Lessons From Uber (The World's Best Travel App)
Several weeks ago I was standing on a street corner in New York. (This is not the sentence I thought I'd start this post with,...
Read Now01 2012 May
Greensurfing – The Rise Of Voluntary Social Media Jealousy
The idea that Facebook causes jealousy isn't new. A study back in 2009 essentially demonstrated that romantic relationships were often suffering from jealousy induced by...
Read Now08 2012 April
How Case Studies Can Set You Up To Fail
My life would be a lot easier if I loved case studies. After all, they are all around me. In our agency, we produce case...
Read Now27 2012 March
The Upside of Being Ordinary And Obvious
How much time do you spend trying to be ordinary or obvious? Probably not a lot. In fact, most marketing people actively avoid talking about...
Read Now04 2012 March
50 SXSW 2012 Panels Worth Getting Excited About
Here's a sad fact about SXSW – at any given time there are at least 16 other talks, events or meetups that you could be...
Read Now01 2012 March
How MindValley Is Building the Next TED (Only More Useful)
This morning I watched an amazing TED video of flying robots that can operate autonomously and collaborate with each other at the same time. It...
Read Now26 2012 February
Likeonomics, Linsanity and Why The Oscars Really Matter
Jerry Weintraub, the producer of Ocean's Eleven, has a dirty little secret. When he talks about getting the first of the Ocean's movies made in...
Read Now12 2012 January
5 Reasons All The Hype About .anything Domain Names Is Like Y2K
The land grab is officially starting. For the first time since the popularization of the Internet, the big news today is that ICANN is opening...
Read Now06 2011 October
What Steve Jobs Really Gave Us
A few weeks ago I was asked an interesting question about what inspires me. As I thought about my answer, I realized that for me...
Read Now08 2011 September
Facebook Bankruptcy: How (And Why) To Convert Your Personal Profile To A Facebook Page
FINAL UPDATE: This process did not go as expected for me and there are several downsides to converting your profile to a page. Read my...
Read Now13 2011 April
A Promising Future For Branded Entertainment
If there is one sign of hope for the marketing industry as a whole, it is that no one really wants boring, one-way, shout-oriented interruptive...
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