What on earth would make me want to spend $90 on a monocle? 
Even stranger:  what would make me save a catalog for over 12 years?
Amazing copy. 
Check this out, from the J. Peterman (yes, that J. Peterman) catalog, dated “Christmas 1995.”  I haven’t changed a word.
The Return of the Monocle.
“Good grief, Peterman, do you want me to look […]

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Tamar Weinberg just wrote a great post about how she uses the big social media sites.  Since she asked for everyone’s opinion, I thought I would add my thoughts on the subject.  This is somewhat easier for me since I mostly ignore everything except Facebook and LinkedIn, i.e. no MySpace for me. 
I have a longstanding account […]

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I’ve been thinking about doing a travel tips post with all of the travel I’ve been doing of late.  Of course, when I got back from Pubcon, I noticed that others had the same idea.  But, I’m going to go ahead anyway.

Be Chill.   Back in my management consulting days, I used to obsess over my travel.  […]

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I highly recommend that you read this short article from the New Yorker about how a checklist dramatically improved outcomes in a hospital’s ICU. 
Those who know me know that my business life is dominated by checklists.  During calls or meetings, I make little boxes in my notebook to indicate that there is a task to […]

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Here’s the question of the day:  who do we compare Major League Baseball to, Enron or FindWhat? 
First, a little background.  I grew up loving baseball, in particular, the Dodgers.  I bled Dodger Blue.  Each win was a triumph, each loss a dagger through my heart.   I was at the stadium to see Fernando pitch in […]

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After a little more than a month away from the SureHits blog (and mostly away from home), I’m back.  And, I’ll be here regularly from here on out. I need to thank Stephan Spencer from Netconcepts for getting me going on the blog again.  He said some really encouraging words to me at Pubcon in Vegas. Stephan’s […]

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Sorry for the light posting of late, I’m on my third trip in the last 2 weeks (with 2 more upcoming).   I’m at ad:tech NYC with 10,000+ of my closest internet marketing friends.  I’ll give a recap soon.  In the meantime, here’s what we’ve been up to at SureHits,  (adapted from our recent newsletter):
The SureHits Quality […]

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Craig Kelly, the EVP & CMO at SunTrust Bank delivered a fine keynote on Monday. 
We were at the 5th Annual Financial Services Symposium, which was pretty much a dud overall.   Some of the speakers I caught were very good, though:  Sylvia Reynolds from Wells Fargo and Jenny Powell from U.S. Bank in particular. But, for being a small conference, it […]

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My favorite tree is the one I’m lucky enough to look at almost every day, pictured above.  It sits just outside my office window.  I’ve been told that this tree is a ponderosa pine and is over 100 years old. 
100!  That’s amazing to me.  Think of the vast changes that have happened in our world […]

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At the Graphing Social Patterns conference on “the business and technology of Facebook” (yes, that conference does sound ridiculous) Jason Calacanis went into a short, but fairly accurate rant about why Facebook is not close to delivering the ad value of Google.  My favorite line:
“Social networking is second only to chat rooms as the worst place to advertise.”
He’s […]

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