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Potential Hubspot Acquisition by Google
Please forgive the length. If I had more time, it would be shorter. While I am currently spending a ton of time “in the business,” of Vendasta I am still maintaining some time for higher-level...
Let’s Work Together to #ProtectLocal
At Vendasta our core purpose is to drive local economies. 50% of the world’s employees work for small and medium businesses. Small businesses fuel the world’s economies, they invest in our...
How Innovation Happens
Why Mom-and-Pops need to learn “Social Media Management”
I have been busy. I haven’t posted for a long time. I needed a shot in the arm to make me post. I got it today when I read Julie Brooks post on StreetFight titled “Why Mom-and-Pops will no longer...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...