Loud Dog Links

February 4, 2010

• How CEOs think (Persistent Sys CEO Blog)
  Focus on top-line growth, partnering to solve complete business problems, and maintaining high levels of involvement in a few priority areas.
  by: Josh Orum | tags: business
• Selecting a CMS: How to Build a Short List (CMS Wire)
  Some interesting and straightforward guidelines to select a CMS. Not a list of CMSs, but just an outline of a good selection process.
  by: Josh Orum | tags: business, cms

January 4, 2010

• ReadWriteWeb's Top 5 Web Trends of 2009 (ReadWriteWeb)
  by: Josh Orum | tags: business, technology

December 21, 2009

• A Social Media Strategy Checklist (ClickZ)
  Before you spend money on building a social media presence, take a step back and craft a strategy. If you don't spend money with a strategy, you're throwing it away.
  by: Josh Orum | tags: business, marketing, socialMedia

December 20, 2009

• Itâ��s All About Selling for Survival
  "Selling” conjures up negative images of used-car salesmen peddling clunkers. But the ability to persuade people to believe in you is a necessity. That’s because sales is not just about selling things for money. Selling is about life.
  by: Josh Orum | tags: business
• The End Of Hand Crafted Content (TechCrunch)
  My advice to readers is just this – get ready for it, because you’ll be reading McDonalds five times a day in the near future. My advice to content creators is more subtle. Figure out an even more disruptive way to win, or die.
  by: Josh Orum | tags: business, content, copywriting, seo

December 10, 2009

• The reason social media is so difficult for most organizations (Seth's Blog)
  It's a process, not an event.
  by: Josh Orum | tags: business, marketing, socialMedia

December 8, 2009

• Letting Go of John Hancock (A List Apart)
  Interesting article on paperless signatures and contracts.
  by: Josh Orum | tags: business

December 4, 2009

• Google DNS makes the web faster (kottke.org)
  Google introduces a public DNS server to make the web faster. Why invest in making the web faster? Their research showed that speed was critical: half a second delay caused a 20% drop in traffic.
  by: Josh Orum | tags: business, usability, webStrategy

November 25, 2009

• HBS Cases: Customer Feedback Not on elBulli's Menu (HBS Working Knowledge)
  For Chef Ferran Adrià particular business owner, creativity and innovation trump any traditional decisions about pricing and operations.
  by: Josh Orum | tags: business, marketing

November 5, 2009

• A List Apart: Articles: Can You Say That in English? Explaining UX Research to Clients
  A cheat sheet that describes different UX techniques using plain, client-friendly language that focuses on the business value of each exercise.
  by: Josh Orum | tags: business, usability

October 6, 2009

• 9 Ways to Take Your Site from One to One Million Users (Carsonified)
  On-the-cheap viral traffic building tips.
  by: Josh Orum | tags: business, pr, promotion, webapps

August 5, 2009

• Analysis of the Netflix Inc. guide to culture (scottberkun.com)
  Scott's analysis of the linked-to Netflix guide is right on.
  by: Josh Orum | tags: business
• Netflix Culture
  Awesome slideshow about creating a great, high performance culture at Netflix. Key quote: "There is no clothing policy at Netflix, but no one has come to work naked lately."
  by: Josh Orum | tags: business

July 30, 2009

• The Agency Problem
  by: Matt DeClaire | tags: business

June 15, 2009

• Dear Dustin Curtis (Dustin Curtis)
  American Airlines UX responds to Dustin Curtis's redesign. I think the UX Designer's letter is more interesting than Curtis's following rant. Curtis is right in some ways, and he writes more about it on his blog.
  by: Josh Orum | tags: business, usability

June 10, 2009

• Yes! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive (alex.moskalyuk)
  This is very interesting.
  by: Josh Orum | tags: business, interesting, psychology, social

May 18, 2009

• Luxury vs. premium (Seth's Blog)
  Interesting note by Seth Godin. Luxury goods are expensive because of scarcity. Premium brands are expensive because they are better.
  by: Josh Orum | tags: business, marketing, positioning

April 9, 2009

• Tools for Analysing and Tracking Your Competitors (The Netsetter)
  There is an abundance of tools for analysing and tracking competitors, allowing you to quantify their traffic, see how their site has changed, find out details about their domain, be alerted when they are in the press and lots of other things. Most of these are better for sites that get a lot of traffic, but any information is better than none.
  by: Josh Orum | tags: business, competitiveResearch, webdesign, webStrategy

April 8, 2009

• The Secret of Great Online Customer Service (Peter Clark)
  Speed. Be so remarkably quick it surprises the user.
  by: Josh Orum | tags: business, marketing