Recent Entries
Delivering Happiness To Your Fans
If you are in the business of sports, then you are really in the business of “happiness”. No matter what role you have within the organization, at the end of the day, win or lose, one question should be asked to judge whether you and your organization have been a success:
Have you delivered happiness to your fans?
On Monday June 7 Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com, releases his book titled “Delivering Happiness“. I was lucky enough to get an advance copy to read before the official on-sale date and it should be required reading for everyone in the sports business world. Read more…
How Marketers Can Benefit From Interest-Based Ads
If you’re paying attention, you should be seeing more relevant and targeted ads as you surf the web lately. This is due in large part to Google’s fairly recent implementation of “Interest-based advertising” through its adsense program. Read more…
Really Dis-liking The Facebook Like Button (Stats)
A few weeks ago Facebook made a change to the way people interact with Facebook fan pages. For all the gritty details there are a couple posts you can read here and here.
But basically… (and this is oversimplifying it greatly) they changed from having people “Become a Fan” of your page or business to having them now say they “Like” your page. Seems like a small change that should not have much of an effect on the amount of people taking the action, or at least it would seem. Read more…
My Tall Housing Article in Tall Magazine
A few years ago there was a magazine geared towards the vertically gifted called Tall Magazine. At 6′8″, I was an avid reader. Unfortunately the magazine is no longer around but while it was still being published I had an article printed in it about how tall people could build or remodel their homes to be more height friendly. For posterity, here’s the article: Read more…
So After The Clapton Concert
Image credit: AndreaTX on Flickr
We were staying at Royal Pacific (gotta love the upgrade to the King Suite) and had dinner at The Palm which of course involved a couple cocktails, so we decided to take a cab to the concert. Getting a cab to the concert was no problem…after the concert not so easy.
So we ended up getting a ride in a van that had been rented by these two guys headed to Portofino, next door pretty much to Hard Rock where we were going back to. It was by far the funniest cab/van rides we’ve ever experienced. (Audio below)
“I referred like four people to you already. I’m networking for ya buddy. What’s that? Well they haven’t called you yet because they can never get ahold of you. Your a buuuusy man!”
Apparently they were flying out Monday to go to NYC for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. The one guy was on the phone with his ticket broker Michael (who was skiing in Aspen) trying to get some balcony seats, limo, etc. I wish I had caught more of the conversation because there were some other funny parts involving Madonna and private jets but this is still pretty funny: