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Let’s Work Together to #ProtectLocal
At Vendasta our core purpose is to drive local economies. 50% of the world's employees work for small and medium businesses. Small businesses fuel the world's economies, they invest in our communities, they unlock economic opportunities, create jobs and grow the...
How Innovation Happens
How Innovation Happens [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sha2PfbyTyE&w=854&h=480]
Why Mom-and-Pops need to learn “Social Media Management”
I have been busy. I haven't posted for a long time. I needed a shot in the arm to make me post. I got it today when I read Julie Brooks post on StreetFight titled "Why Mom-and-Pops will no longer pay for "Social Media Management" . Julie I agree that it is a very...
VendAsta 2011 – A Year in Recap
….. and I’m back. It’s been a while since my last post. I took a year off blogging to try Twitter instead. I don’t think I will stop tweeting but I find I need more words to express myself. Let’s see if I can find the time. 🙂 VendAsta is a software development...
The Power of Word Of Mouth
In 1989 fresh out of university I started a business with a college buddy. I remember those early days fondly. Our business only had a handful of employees. We worked long hours for very little but we had a great time. We started out recycling / remanufacturing...
Exploring the question: “Is Groupon the New Yellow Pages”.
Greg Sterling asked the question, “Is Groupon the new Yellow Pages”, and then went on to make compelling argument as to why Groupon could indeed be seen as the “new” yellow pages. Basically the analogy is that in the glory days YP owned all the content, sales and...