Archive for 2011/08


Change

1 I read a "BusinessWeek" article about selling shoes at Nordstrom. Used to be if they didn’t have your size, the salesman would get on the phone and call other stores. How eighties you say! And that’s what Nordstrom realized, they were losing sales. So they put the chain’s entire inventory at the salesmen’s fingertips. […]

The Pearl Jam Movie

It’s tougher to stay alive. Anyone can die, retire, the challenge is to keep on keepin’ on, with no compass, no rule book, knowing that everything you do thereafter could tarnish your legacy, kill your career. John Lennon, Jim Morrison and Kurt Cobain were great artists, but if they were alive today, we’d see them […]

Adelemania

We own this. I just got off the phone with Jim Guerinot, he saw Adele last night in San Diego, he needed to share. Remember when we were a tribe, when we all went to Woodstock to hear the elixir of music and bond with one another? That era is back. You see this is […]

Emotional Content

We all remember seeing the "Sledgehammer" video for the very first time…how’d they do that! That was the essence of success in the MTV era, pushing technological limits to wow the passive end user, whether it be Michael Jackson morphing into a panther or Ric Ocasek battling an insect. But we’re no longer passive and […]