Contextually Speaking

Jul 24

Your Judaica shop is having a half off sale on the 3 foot silver Menorah with the golden cups. Regularly $8,000 now only $4,000. Reuven is sitting on his couch browsing the Jewish Press. On page Z23 is the full page ad you submitted. Zalman, Reven’s neighbor, is at this very moment studying the Menorah display in your shop. The three foot Menorah is standing...

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Now That’s Embarrassing

Jun 01

There comes a time in every company’s existence where they are forced to come to terms with an awkward situation.  Whether it is something as simple as an unedited email or as embarrassing as a scandal in the personal life of the CEO, things will come up. There are two ways to try to handle the situation. Either ignore it and hope it goes away, or address it...

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Following Success

Mar 15

There is an icon on the top right-hand side of this blog (note to self: never change the overall layout of this blog so that this won’t come back to haunt you later) to the left of the “t” and the “f” icons of Twitter and Facebook. Yes, I mean the RSS icon. Chances are you know what it’s for, but just in case, here is a quick...

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Hit Me

Mar 13

If you are advertising your website or marketing your business there is minimal benefit to be gained by calculating visits unless that calculation can be measurably segmented and analyzed. The benefit of knowing that you website received 100,000 visitors by itself doesn’t tell you much. Which strategy is getting you traffic? Is it your YidSense or Google...

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SpaceIn TwitterFace

Mar 10

Are you out there? Why do I only hear an echo and no response? You may hate Facebook. You may find Twitter a fantastic waste of time. It really doesn’t matter what your excuse is, the fact of the matter is your reason is probably wrong (even religiously motivated). First of all, owning the virtual property afforded by social networking outlets like Twitter,...

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