February 26, 2008 – 5:36 pm
I just saw a great byline quote in an article in this months Entrepreneur magazine:
“Numbers that are tracked and watched are numbers that grow.”
Personally I believe a key to successful business is knowing which numbers to track and watch. Then again, I also tend to believe that you can spot most problems in those numbers […]
January 10, 2008 – 11:29 pm
Rex Hammock has posted some thoughts on what he has termed Mediacasting. The basic gist is that “advertising” is the conversation with your customers. It is a conversation that is happening across a wide variety of communication channels on a wide range of devices. A key point is that the only barrier to entry is […]
December 20, 2007 – 8:06 pm
You know that statzen widget I talk about? I am starting to change the way I think about it.
You might have noticed that the widget has three tabs (only they don’t look much like tabs). The first one is contextual information about the page that is being viewed; it displays how many visitors have looked […]
December 20, 2007 – 1:25 pm
I made some changes to the statzen widget. You can see it on the right sidebar of my blog.
Now it should never hold up a page from loading (a much for widgets these days). I also tweaked the way the tabs work so that it is not a link and is instead an onclick action […]
November 16, 2007 – 9:16 am
I love aggregate statistics. Sure, I know this makes me a dweeb, but I am cool with that (and the Harley in my back yard helps my aggregate dweeb score to stay in check).
There is an article on Time.com today that is talking about what an “average American” is. There is a really […]
October 25, 2007 – 9:36 am
One thing I have learned from being a partner in a retail store is the importance of measuring performance. The “one true metric” for a small business owner is “how much money is in the bank”. Unfortunately, if you only watch that metric you don’t see problems until it is too late. You […]