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VendAsta 2011 – A Year in Recap

….. and I’m back.  It’s been a while since my last post.  I took a year off blogging to try Twitter instead.  I don’t think I will stop tweeting but I find I need more words to express myself. Let’s see if I can find the time. 🙂 VendAsta is a software development...

The Power of Word Of Mouth

In 1989 fresh out of university I started a  business with a college buddy.  I remember those early days fondly.  Our business only had a handful of employees.  We worked long hours for very little but we had a great time.  We started out recycling / remanufacturing...

Exploring the question: “Is Groupon the New Yellow Pages”.

Greg Sterling asked the question, “Is Groupon the new Yellow Pages”, and then went on to make compelling argument as to why Groupon could indeed be seen as the “new” yellow pages.  Basically the analogy is that in the glory days YP owned all the content, sales and...

Product Development and a Strong Vision

At VendAsta we have been working for the better part of a year and a half on  projects that fall under our www.SocialConnections.com umbrella.  VendAsta has a team of world class software developers, but building  software products from scratch is difficult. Period.  ...

Yellow Pages Advertising Analysis and a Prescription for the Future

I recently attended the Kelsey DMS2009 conference to learn more about they YP space.  There is certainly a lot to learn.   I am very interested in better understanding how the real estate industry’s relationship with YP has evolved over the years.  I am sure that many...

Inspiration

Almost a year ago I wrote a post called “Dream Like A Child”.  I watched a video today that captured the sentiment of my post in much more elegant way. Take a look: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6MhAwQ64c0]