More choice doesn't mean more sales. Instead, it often frustrates customers and sends them to a competitor. Canon offers 20 models of small digital cameras. How different can they be? Dell offer 6 lines of consumer laptops in 14 variations, every one customizable beyond the 4 choices they suggest. (Plus business, small business technical, and [...]
Bob Pearson from Dell is the new head of the Blog Council
April 7, 2009
Exciting news from all of us at GasPedal and the Blog Council: Bob Pearson, Dell's former VP of Communities and Conversations, will become the President of the Blog Council and Senior Vice President of Communities at GasPedal. I've always admired Bob for his work as one of the pioneers in corporate social media, so it's [...]
Blog Council launches its newsletter: Big Business Blogging
March 10, 2009
As many of you know, my company runs the Blog Council, a community for corporate social media executives at the largest companies in the world. We’re excited to let you all know that we’ve just launched the Blog Council’s newsletter, Big Business Blogging: Corporate social media success stories. Each week, we’ll share a few examples [...]
From the new edition of my book: Word of mouth case study — Dell
March 9, 2009
Over on our GasPedal blog, You Can Be a Word of Mouth Supergenius!, we’re highlighting a new case study from the revised edition of my book each day this week. Today’s case study focuses on Dell and how as one of the first companies to get called out for not listening to their word of [...]
New: Dell’s Social Innovation Competition
February 2, 2009
Announced today: The Dell Social Innovation Competition. It's a worthy cause, and a great use of crowdsourcing tools. The deadline is Feb. 20. "The RGK Center at The University of Texas and Dell are looking for college students worldwide with ingenious ideas to change the world. Dream up a plan that combines creativity and innovation [...]
Road Warrior Gear
January 18, 2009
One lonely night in a hotel room far, far away … I decided to share my essential executive travel gear. Visit my post on Dell’s Digital Nomads blog to find out what all this stuff is — click here.
Zen of Business Travel
November 22, 2008
This is a reprint of my post on Dell’s Digital Nomads blog: I am a very calm traveler. Despite the inevitable delays, idiots, and indignities, I rarely get upset. How did I do it? I decided that it was the only choice. When I was an angry traveler, I got upset, I stomped around, I [...]
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