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The Basics of Racing
Lesson 6: Traction Management

WARNING: Don’t Use This to go Get Groceries. But, it’s Standard on the Track. Let’s recap. So far I’ve published 7 out 10 BLOGS (3 more to come) talking about “The Basics of Racing”. Each time using a specific racing skill or technique, as a metaphor, that I apply to the world of online design, development, or marketing. In the discussion about “The Racing Line” I told you that finding the line was the most important technical skill to develop.…
October 20, 2008
DesignDevelopmentMarketing

When the Going Gets Tough…
The Tough Get GROWING. Again.

I originally posted this message about 2 weeks ago. I think it deserves a second time around: The present business “challenges”, and the resulting “wait and see” attitude, brought on by our national economic troubles offer up two marketing choices: 1. Play it safe, don’t spend marketing dollars, and wait and see how things pan out, or 2. Take advantage of a tremendous positioning opportunity, slightly up your marketing spending, and come out the other side positioned in a leadership…
October 17, 2008
Design

The Many Types Of Blogs

I have been focusing on corporate blogging the past two weeks, so I’d like to take a brief break and talk about all the various types of blogs out there in the blogosphere. These blogs follow the same formula of the corporate blog when it comes to key words, meta tags, subject matter, and etiquette. These different blogs have their own agenda, often tied to the business world—the blog may connect to a book or movie, a specific product, TV…
October 15, 2008
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The Basics of Racing
Lesson 5: Types of Turns

WARNING: Don’t Use This to go Get Groceries. But, it’s Standard on the Track. In my last BLOG I talked about the importance of finding the racing line. That was a perfect introduction in to the subject of “turn classifications” as the two subjects are both important, and linked. In books like “Secrets of Solo Racing” by Henry Watts and “Going Faster” by the Skip Barber Racing School the authors go into great detail on this subject. I highly recommend…
October 13, 2008
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Voodoo Economics? Forget It!

A few weeks ago, I wrote in this blog a call to stop paying attention to all the negativity in the news and allowing what is going on in the outside world to have hegemony over your business and personal life. I would like to reinforce that message today, especially with all the chaos and worry with Wall Street, the DOW, government buyouts, etc. etc. I know it’s hard, almost impossible—the newspaper headlines all decry bleakness, and the newspapers are…
October 10, 2008