Category Archives: IT Business

Marketing, Ahead or Behind?

Posted: 10:23 am
January 17, 2008
IT Business
3 Comments

This weeks Businessweek (page 17) is asserting that China must be over because there are so many books written about the bull market there. Apparently, a hot book trend is a signal of a “soon-to-burst bubble” or so they say. … Continue reading →

Two business nonsense realities

Posted: 9:24 am
January 16, 2008
IT Business
5 Comments

Just because a project doesn’t make money does not make it an unprofitable project (especially if a project is a part of an overall marketing approach) Just because you made money on something does not make it a business or … Continue reading →

The Dip for IT Administrators – The Power of my Delete Key

Posted: 6:01 pm
January 10, 2008
IT Business
3 Comments

Seth Godin is a famous writer behind many (damn near works of art) books on marketing, and one of his latest books, which you can read in an hour, is The Dip. Phenomenal book, get it. One of Seth’s things … Continue reading →

MGM in Vegas: Grand disappointment for the business traveler

Posted: 8:35 am
January 10, 2008
IT Business
1 Comment

In my many business and fun trips to Vegas I’ve had the pleasure of staying at nearly everything the strip has to offer, once even booking a stay at Excalibur on a two day notice. I have to say that … Continue reading →

How open is too open?

Posted: 9:23 am
January 8, 2008
IT Business, Legal
1 Comment

The other day you got to read about some motivational buffoonery that is often implemented in the IT field, how to demoralize your troops with a self-congratulating motivational speaker that isn’t qualified to work in this field to begin with. … Continue reading →

Motivational Speaking For Technology Workers

Posted: 8:26 pm
January 6, 2008
IT Business
3 Comments

One sure way to prove yourself as someone that is too stupid to work in IT (and hopefully inflict some bodily harm) is to try the same motivational techniques that are used on dumb jocks on IT people. Believe it … Continue reading →

The Support Superman

Posted: 6:22 pm
January 5, 2008
IT Business, OwnWebNow, SMB
on The Support Superman

This is how I actually talk to my clients: Vlad Mazek, Direct CEO Line As you may remember from our last newsletter, we have put in a lot of effort into the communications, support and documentation of all Own Web … Continue reading →

Are you a Service or Support organization?

Posted: 10:46 am
January 5, 2008
IT Business
1 Comment

In my voice-less trolling of meetings this week I participated in a rather pointless debate over definitions in trying to discover, after all these years, what type of an organization are we. Are we a support organization that delivers technical … Continue reading →

Praise & Purpose

Posted: 10:37 am
December 31, 2007
IT Business, IT Culture, Vladville
1 Comment

Got some pretty big praise for the blog from Karl Palachuk over the weekend, though to be honest it’s pretty high praise every time anyone links to this blog: You may not agree with everything he says, or the way … Continue reading →

Arthur Miller & Death of a SMBTechSalesman

Posted: 1:22 am
December 30, 2007
IT Business
3 Comments

From the mailbag (vlad@vladville.com): (excerpt from longer email): Did you say SMB IT is slowing down? Is this nationwide or just your area? What I actually blogged about previously was not the slowdown in the SMB IT, but that more … Continue reading →