Posts by: widhadh

Diving last summer

On February 10, 2012 By

This guy was not afraid of me at all. Next time I have to get a better underwater camera that I can take further down. I broke the Olympus digital camera that took this by diving too deep with it.

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I’ve read a few things that are a good touchstone for what I’m about to discuss. The Wheel of Time, by Robert Jordan, I would say is the most epic and amazing fantasy series ever. Brandon Sanderson, for the last few books, has done an incredible job to bring things so close to finale after [...]

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In Marketing, earned media is king. Google has tons of engaged, rabid fans. So do Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, Craigslist, etc. Each and every brand that excels online decided, early on in their dominating trajectory, that they would build and nurture relationships with the outside world.

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Why do people talk about products? What makes them social about a service or device?

Extreme enjoyment is one major reason, along with it’s ugly twin, extreme disappointment. Wow factor!  The iPhone, lends itself to cultist adoration and mass fanaticism, to convince me to use another phone someone would really have to wow [...]

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The best companies do niche marketing at scale. When you consider a go to market strategy, you have to aim at a niche, then scale the number of niches either vertically or horizontally. By doing this, you’ll develop large numbers of engaged fans and achieve greater long term mind share. The key is progressively acquiring [...]

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Social Media Strategy 2012

On January 24, 2012 By

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As you can see from the chart below from the research paper from Elsevier, we have a model of word of mouth that is a summary of a few different theories on viral marketing and how WOM (word of mouth) spreads and influences prospects from [...]

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The public internet has been around for decades. Broadband, online video and the merging of TV and the computer have been around for nearly a decade and a half (WebTV). Based on a detailed analysis of the why’s and how’s of the best internet and tech companies in the world, from Google to TripAdvisor, to [...]

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