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The blog of Rex Hammock, founder/ceo of Hammock Inc., the content marketing, strategy and media company founded in 1991 in Nashville, Tenn. Rex is also founder/helper-in-chief of the wiki, SmallBusiness.com.
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Monthly Archives: December 2011
Perfectionism Schmerfectionism
One of the things we were led to believe in 2011 was a myth about Steve Jobs being a perfectionist. This myth was given a free pass by everyone from The New Yorker on down. In reality, his perfectionism, while … Continue reading
Posted in apple, iPad, iphone, ipod
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Looking at 2011 through the rearview mirror
Tomorrow, I’ll post some 2012 predictions. Here’s how I did on my predictions for this year. Magazine apps will stop being called magazine apps: The point I was making has gone mainstream. Magazine companies are beginning to put out apps … Continue reading
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Happy American Boxing Day
In the U.S., we don’t have Boxing Day. In the U.S., the day after Christmas is, well, the day after Christmas. However, when Christmas is on Sunday, the federal holiday is Monday, the 26th. That means that today is an … Continue reading
Today is the 150th Anniversary of the Medal of Honor
On this date in 1862, President Lincoln signed into law the legislation that created what we know today as the Medal of Honor. The photo accompanying this post is of the cover of the current edition of Semper Fi, a … Continue reading
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The 2011 Top 12 Best Ever Last Minute Tennessee Related Christmas Gifts
Admit it. You blew the entire weekend before Christmas not getting out there and expressing your consumer spirit — the spirit necessary to send this old Scrooge of an economy packing. Fear not, for I bring you tidings of great … Continue reading
Posted in Nashville
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I’d like to influence you not to worry too much about online influence gamified metrics like Klout
There’s a story by Anita Wadhwani appearing today on Tennessean.com regarding the efforts of a company called Klout to create a measurement of someone’s influence online about a particular topic. As the company is backed by the influential (in ways … Continue reading
Posted in internet, Nashville, social media
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Except for all the other times, now’s the best or worst time to start a small business
Recently a writer for a national magazine (that’s not about business) interviewed me for a story he was working on about starting a small business. As such interviews usually end up getting whittled down to a sentence quote from me, … Continue reading
Posted in small business, smallbusiness.com
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Fed Research: A&E’s Flip This House Responsible for Real Estate Bubble
On Twitter, I’ve said (primarily, as a joke) that, in addition to Wall Street, we should blame the real estate and mortgage meltdown of the late ’00s on TV shows like A&E’s “Flip This House” and The Discovery Channel’s Flip … Continue reading
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Two photo sets for a chilly morning
During this past weekend, my wife and I made a quick trip to the Tampa Bay area to visit my in-laws. Below, I’ve embedded a couple of photo sets from the trip. The first is four shots of a sunset … Continue reading
Posted in photography, travel
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RexBlog’s 2011 musician of the year: Noam Pikelny
Wednesday night at Nashville’s most awesome venue, the Station Inn, I enjoyed the performance of Noam Pikelny (and friends) so much, I decided to create a new feature called “Musician of the Year.” As I don’t blog about music except … Continue reading
Posted in Nashville, observation, review
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Why executives and lawyers aren’t creative directors
This morning, I noticed the tagline (slogan? mission statement? mantra?) at the bottom of each page on the website of the Small Business Administration: “Aid, counsel, assist and protect, insofar as is possible, the interests of small business concerns.” Here’s … Continue reading
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