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Rex Hammock’s RexBlog.com
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.
RexBlog.com was created in August, 2000.
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Five Reasons Domains Are Still Important
This post, including the title, is my reaction to a blog post from Evan Williams, titled, Five Reasons Domains Are Getting Less Important. Ironically, I agree with everything he writes, except one: the title. So this isn’t a negative reaction, … Continue reading
Posted in business, identity, internet, search, small business, twitter
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When words CEOs and CFOs use sound too good to be true
[Note: See update at the bottom of this post.] For many years, I’ve heard radio ads in which the announcer repeated the phrase, “People judge you by the words you use.” The ads touted a program that would help you … Continue reading
Posted in business, observation
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File this lesson away for the next recession
The more one reads about the history of recessions and market collapses, the more one realizes why certain contrarian investors and marketers look forward to those times when others are capitulating, laying off, hunkering down and wallowing in bad news … Continue reading
Posted in advertising, apple, business, marketing
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Dilbert features a little product placement humor
I’ll have to admit. I’m one of those people who don’t really find Dilbert that amusing. I do, however, think its creator Scott Adams is an intelligent — and very funny — guy. Yesterday, the Dilbert comic strip contained a … Continue reading
Posted in advertising, business, media
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If you can make it now, you’ll make it anyhow
My friend Samir Hunsi is pointing to a 2001 New Yorker article by James Surowiecki called, “Let the Bad Times Roll” about BusinessWeek & Fortune magazines being launched in 1929 and 1930 — and other successful ventures that started during … Continue reading
Posted in business, magazines
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I’m following most of ABC News executive guidelines
ABC News executives told to avoid deluxe travel and newspapers. Perhaps you saw where ABC News has instituted new “guidelines” to “reduce administrative costs” during the slow economy. It includes instructions to cancel subscriptions to print media and to travel … Continue reading
Posted in business, media, observation, publishing, travel
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Do you really want to send (or receive) that e-mail?
The Important Part: Despite the fact most people have only been using e-mail for the past 15 years, it has become a dominant channel of business communication — and definitely the most mis-used. A couple of interesting thoughts on e-mail … Continue reading
Posted in business, facebook, internet, twitter
Tagged email, internet, web 2.0, web culture
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How social media like blogs, wikis, Twitter and Facebook are changing business
How social media like blogs, Twitter and Facebook are changing business Continue reading
Posted in blogging, business, conversational media, social media, social networks
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Free Advice: Read this article by Chris Anderson to be ahead of the buzz curve
If you want to be out in front of the next Chris Anderson book every marketing consultant — and worse, your boss — will be quoting in a few months, go ahead and read this Wired magazine article from the … Continue reading
Posted in books, business, magazines, marketing
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Making money is a business model
After adding a del.icio.us link to this discussion on Dave Winer’s weblog regarding Twitter‘s business model, I noticed a memorable observation buried in its comment thread. A commenter suggests Twitter may provide a return for its investors, but the commenter … Continue reading
How to get an RSS feed with tons of ‘free’ stories on WSJ.com
In the previous post, I linked to Kevin Rose’ post about the WSJ.com adding a Digg button to the bottom of pages throughout the site. Obviously, the real news in Kevin’s blog post is that every story that is “dugg” … Continue reading
WSJ executive ‘corrects’ new boss and says the pay wall may not come down, but then Kevin Rose ‘diggs’ a hole through it
[Here's a test: If you don't have a subscription to WSJ.com and you can click this link and end up there, then, well, the WSJ.com is free. See the "update" below for the secret to this trick.] First, you gotta … Continue reading
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Breaking: WSJ.com to drop subscription
[via: AP]: “Rupert Murdoch, the chairman of the News Corporation, said today that he intended to make access to The Wall Street Journal’s Web site free, trading subscription fees for anticipated ad revenue. “We are studying it and we expect … Continue reading
Posted in advertising, breaking news, business, media
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Business lessons I’ve learned from dogs
(I’m writing something for one of our magazines and need your help. What business lessons have you learned from your dog(s)? Read on, and add your lesson as a comment.) For most of my life, I’ve lived with dogs. They’ve … Continue reading
Posted in business, observation
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Business.com: Like revenge, vindication is a dish best served cold
On June 22, I wrote a long explanation of why the sale of “business.com” is not merely the “domain name” story it was being spun on that day when it was leaked the company was on the market. Last night, … Continue reading
