Posts tagged as "business"

Posted by Markus on 10th May 2010

Apple, the modern Knights Templar

I’ve been playing Assassin’s Creed II a lot lately, and simply put – it’s a great game. It has the Knights Templar in it as the main enemy and architects of conspiracies and coincidentally I had to spend some time in an actual Templar related organisation (at least they call themselves Templars, although the order [...]

Posted by Markus on 25th September 2009

Technology or Business?

After you’ve figured out that you really want and need a web site, you come to a very important crossroad. This fork has two different paths and usually people don’t even realize the existence of the other. Let’s go back a bit. Imagine you walk to an advertising agency to do a print campaign. Do [...]

Posted by Markus on 31st August 2009

How much to spend in a website?

Right, in our previous posts in our continuing series Web101 we have talked about: Why do you need a website? – Have you really thought it through? What should it contain? – You’re not building a site for you, but your users Why you don’t need a community? – Because it’s your house, not a [...]

Posted by Markus on 18th June 2009

What should your website contain?

Hi and welcome back to our jovial playground of “how you can purchase a website for yourself or your company in the near future and not get depressed enough to try and swallow a shotgun after your project has crashed and burned because someone made basic mistakes.” So, if you read the first and previous [...]

Posted by Markus on 15th June 2009

Why do you need a website?

Since working in helping people create websites for the last decade or so, I’ve noticed that there are many simple things people skip when they’re doing their planning. I work as a planner, and a planner is a person who looks at the client straight to the eyes and should tell them what they need [...]

Posted by Markus on 24th April 2009

Cops and Clowns fighting Matrix-style

I knew you just can’t resist looking at that topic, and the best part of it is that it is actually true. Here’s a video by Stink Digital they made for some TV company promoting some new technology, but I’m unable to say which those are since this “ad” doesn’t mention neither of them. So, [...]

Posted by Markus on 20th April 2009

The Beckham Terminator

Ad agencies, brand building, ooh, aah. I’d like to see the effect on business this advertising campaign has. David Beckham rubbing himself with a phone that looks like a, um, I don’t know – a lady shaver? Still, it doesn’t tell anything about the product, its price, when it’s coming out, what does it do [...]

Posted by Markus on 13th April 2009

HP asks $298 for two keys

The Consumerist is a site I’ve been following for a very long time. Being a person working in marketing, I think it’s very important to see the everyday mistakes companies make, how they affect consumers and eventually how the shit will hit the fan and everything will be FUBAR. Good customer service is the only [...]

Posted by Markus on 9th April 2009

4th of 5 Reasons why printed media will evolve

Note: This is the fourth part of my week-long series of posting 5 reasons why I think the printed media will have to evolve and what I think it should evolve to. The steps will be posted daily starting with this on a Monday, and ending on this week’s Friday. If you missed the first [...]

Posted by Markus on 9th April 2009

The Genius behind MacHeist

MacHeist is something I’ve been a part of since the beginning and finally they are getting the big press they should have been receiving since the first MacHeist. Of course they’ve been around in the media, but with the coming of Twitter and the final breakthrough of Facebook has fastened the media circle around them. [...]