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Tweeting To A Million

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It made news a couple of months ago when Ashton Kutcher hit the million follower mark on Twitter.  Since then, he’s been joined by Ellen, Oprah, Jimmy Fallon, and as of this writing 19 others at the million mark.   By the way, I only have 999,600+ to go – feel free to follow. Continue reading

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Stoopid

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I’ll admit that I’m not the brightest guy in the world but it’s apparent even to me that suing your customers is a bad idea no matter what business you’re in.  When you’re in a business that is struggling due to a sea-change in the economic model under which you’ve operated, alienating the customer is tantamount to suicide.  And yet… Continue reading

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What Are We Doing

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Today I’m raising a question for which I don’t really have an answer.  I guess it’s more of an observation and perhaps we can all figure out the answer together.

I’ve spent a good number of years in the sports business.  I love it because it’s a business about which people are passionate, both the folks who work in it and the fans who consume it.  But lately I’ve asked myself what we’re doing to those fans and I had a conversation the other day which really raised my level of concern. Continue reading

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