by James Sherrett | Apr 28, 2006 | Work
The Work Industries testimonials keep rolling in. First Alexandre Brabant of e-Marketing 101 let loose with some kind words. Then Jill Smith of Intrawest made me smile and tell people about her wonderful style. The latest comes from Paul Jeszenszky, the Director,...
by James Sherrett | Apr 26, 2006 | News, Work
Via Traffick, Statscan has announced that year-over-year Internet sales have grown by 80 percent from 2004 to 2005. Retailers reported online sales of $5.4 billion in 2005, up 80% from $3 billion in 2004, according to the report. Retail sales accounted for 14% of...
by James Sherrett | Apr 21, 2006 | Internet Marketing Strategy, Online Communities, Web Content
A friend and I have an ongoing discussion about technology and change. It goes like this: change opportunities in the organization she works for only really exist once The Economist writes about them. Before that, as far as her boss is concerned, nothing noteworthy...
by James Sherrett | Apr 21, 2006 | Harebrained Ideas
This past week I’ve come across some very good thinking and writing on the current state of the advertising business. It’s heartening to see, since so much of the current practice of advertising is simple tricks and tactics, hamfistedly imported from...
by James Sherrett | Apr 14, 2006 | Work
Last week I asked a few folks I have worked with in the past to help me out with launching my new business, Work Industries. If they felt comfortable, I asked them to provide a testimonial about working with me. I published the first Work Industries testimonial from...
by James Sherrett | Apr 12, 2006 | Client Work, Work
(Cross posted from my Up in Ontario blog.) The week that runs from Saturday, April 22, 2006 to Saturday, April 29, 2006 is BC Book and Magazine Week in these here parts. I’m working with the folks at the Association of Book Publishers of BC (ABPBC) and the BC...
by James Sherrett | Apr 11, 2006 | Work
Last week I asked a few folks I have worked with in the past to help me out with launching my new business, Work Industries. If they felt comfortable, I asked them to provide a testimonial about working with me. The first testimonial to arrive was from Alex Brabant,...
by James Sherrett | Apr 11, 2006 | Tools & Technology for Non-Techies
For invoicing, Work Industries uses Blinksale, a simple, web-based invoicing system. It lets us and our clients keep track of billables in one place. We just signed up last month, but already we’re pretty happy. Blinksale was recommended to us by the good folks...
by James Sherrett | Apr 6, 2006 | Internet Marketing Strategy, Online Communities
Update: Here is a link to the original post on Kathy Sierra’s blog about her talk, Creating Passionate Users. Via a roundup post of audio and video stuff to hear / watch on the pretty-much-always-excellent 37 Signals blog, Signal vs. Noise, I came across an...
by James Sherrett | Apr 4, 2006 | Web Content
To follow up on yesterday’s 10 Ways Non-Profits Can Use Blogs Britt Bravo presents 7 Ways Non-Profits Can Use Podcasts. Once again Bravo does a nice job of highlighting some great examples of podcasts working for the organizations producing them. And once again...
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