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I love the chart below showing years to revenue for many large companies. I also love the chart from tableausoftware.com and I am looking forward to trying out creating my own visual datasets. The Business Intelligence junkies who read this blog will hopefully share my appreciation for this graph. Go ahead – select one of [...]

My friend Lee Jones and I started Marketing.fm in March of 2006, which feels like a decade ago. Since then a lot has happened and since I missed providing a 3 year birthday update this year I thought a post was due. If you want to catch up on previous milestones see Year 1 and [...]

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Since starting this blog I have been getting an increasing amount of PR firms pitching various products, promotions, companies, and more. My information is easy enough to obtain, or you can even fill out a form and I like being this reachable. Lately it seems that the quality of [...]

Image via CrunchBase Google announced a new way to maximize revenue potential with current ad placements by allowing participating ad networks to run ads in current AdSense spots. I received an email update earlier, but the feature is not yet active within my account. I find this an interesting move and one that enforces the [...]

As you may know I have been exploring Google Apps Premiere edition for an email solution. Recently Google finally completed the final step necessary to move over to a pure Google Apps Email environment called Google Apps Connector for Blackberry Enterprise Server for an office that uses BlackBerrys. Get the benefits of Google Apps with [...]

Since I began working at USV I have heard the importance of backing a team of technical co-founders that can code and iterate fast. I believe in this thesis and have seen its importance up close and personal. I also feel there is a time and a place for the Business person to come in. [...]

Cover via Amazon I recently finished Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely after it got high praise in my office from Andrew and Albert. It is a great book and one that anyone interested in sales, placebo‘s, and the “why” behind the everyday choices we make should read. It also changed my view on something that [...]

It seems to be presentation week at Marketing.fm but as I find great resources I like to share and archive them here. This one comes from social web design expert Bokardo. I am sorry I missed this one in person, but that is why being able to share and embed great presentations is helpful. Designing [...]

I have worked at a few different companies since I started my career, while in college at many traditional organizations and after college at a few startup environments. I came across this presentation by NetFlix at CommunityGuy and wanted to share it here. Culture View more presentations from reed2001. It goes into some great points. [...]

As a follow up to the WordPress plugins post and my 10 tools for web traffic research I wanted to share some services that I use, and pay for. Disclaimer: where possible I use affiliate links Hostgator – This is where I host Marketing.fm and refer anyone looking for great shared hosting. GetDropBox – the [...]