21 things membership-driven design resource Fab.com learned in its first year
My colleague Brian James Kirk shared these slides from a presentation from the CEO of Fab.com, a membership-based design resource that is less than a year ago. The slides and the takeaways are...
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How foundation funding could be protecting a journalism pay bubble
A journalist salary bubble may still be lurking somewhere beyond the newspaper right-sizing of the past decade. We at Technically Philly are in the process of hiring our first reporter — to begin as...
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When you buy something, you are voting for its existence
Most of us (myself included) could do a better job of more often recognizing that when we buy something, we are also, in a way, voting for it. Cost analysis should include an awareness of what message...
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Balancing legacy and money in professional sports has lessons for the rest of us
The legacy of your work has a value harder to compare with pure money, so we should try our best to incorporate that in our professional decision making. I’m not a professional athlete. That may...
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Baseball cards: 10 business lessons from my time in the sports memorabilla...
In middle school, I collected baseball cards. A lot of baseball cards. In third grade, I tried pogs before they were outlawed in class when it was found we were effectively gambling with them. In a...
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5 reasons I bought a house
Art lovingly stolen from Brit Miller because it came up high on search. She's a great Philly-based artist. Buy this. Link below post. For all the reasons that home ownership among young people is...
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Corporate jargon: a collection and translation of common business slang
There is no shortage of jokes and jabs at corporate jargon. But here’s another. Though the Internet has its fair share of lists and collections and compilations and generators, I felt too few of them...
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Why 10 percent unemployment and worse is our future, unless we rethink our...
People waiting in line for unemployment relief in Chicago in October 1960. Photo by Myron Davis for LIFE Magazine In the next 20 years, the United States and the broader global economy will either...
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Inbox zero: email techniques for more efficient knowledge workers (like...
For anyone who traffics in ideas, relationships and communication (and reporters are certainly that), “one of the most important soft skills you can have is handling a high-volume of email,” said...
View ArticleWhat happens to old customers when your prices go up
Raising prices for a product or service is challenging. One strategy is to keep the headline price but simply offer a cheaper product — fewer chips in the bag, fewer deliverables in the sponsorship...
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