What Would Apple Do?

“What Would Apple Do?” or “W.W.A.D.“ That’s the key question we frequently ask ourselves at my company. Apple represents a high standard of simplicity and experience we aspire to in our product and most everything we do. So much that we’re even proudly equipped with Lance Armstrong-inspired bracelets, with the W.W.A.D.… Read the rest

How To Charge $$$ When Your Customers Are Conditioned To Free

I’ve been on a recent kick about “free” — most recently, countering Chris Andersen’s notion that the future of business is free. While I believe nothing is free in the end, I do agree that people are being conditioned by the idea of free.… Read the rest

Enemies Are Good For You

The following is also my latest MediaPost column

Enemies Are Good For You 

January 11th, 2008 by Max Kalehoff

“Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer,” the proverb goes. While that’s sound advice, enemies are more than opponents to manage relative to your allies.… Read the rest

Your Are What You Say, So Say Good Things

Thanks to TagCrowd, I created the following text cloud based on all the current visible text on the main landing page of this blog. As you can see, it’s a visualization of vernacular, listed alphabetically, with frequency indicated by font size and color.… Read the rest