Ernesto on November 14th, 2009

New Hampshire  newspaper editors and publishers met at UNH in Durham the other night to discuss challenges faced by the industry.  It was an opportunity for a discussion about the newspaper business that, as the organizer and The Telegraph’s publisher, Terry Williams, pointed out, looked beyond the problems faced by the major, debt-laden, metro papers [...]

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The Office recently riffed on pay-walls on newspaper Web sites, in particular the Wall Street Journal.  There’s probably not a newspaper Web site in the country right now not trying to figure out what the right balance between continuing to increase traffic and support growing ad inventory, while at the same time protecting print subscriptions, [...]

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Borrell Assoc. has a new blog post on how Castello (http://ccin.com) is making money of city-dotcom and topic-dotcom sites. According to Borrell, “One of their sites makes more money than any locally owned media site in that market. They do it without a lick of broacast or print cross-promotion, a base of advertisers from which [...]

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Twitter recently released a Twitter 101 site aimed at instructing business people on using the tool for marketing. It’s an interesting overview with plenty of basics for those who haven’t had the opportunity to experiment much with Twitter or who still aren’t sure what it is. (And I know plenty of folks out there [...]

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“In times of stress, leaders tend to communicate less about more, when in fact they should be communicating more about less,” according to Deb Titus, from Dale Carnegie, who gave a Webinar at The Telegraph last week. Here are a few tidbits I jotted down during the session, all of which to me seem to [...]

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Ernesto on April 5th, 2009

In keeping with my note a few days ago regarding PC World’s 10 Business Lessons Learned from Battlestar Galactica, I came across this post by Michael Arrington on the TechCrunch blog today: “Grok This: Forget The Business Books, Go Sci-Fi To Stoke Your Imagination.”  Arrington says of business books that most “are a chapter of advice [...]

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