Ian Landsman

Founder & Dev. HelpSpot / Larajobs / Outro

How to Sell Anything To Anyone: "A few minutes later, the prospect handed over four million dollars."

(Via Seth's Blog.) - Gosh darn Seth Godin is good. Another excellent blog post and at a very relevant time for me. I've been thinking alot about product positioning lately. Not sure why. Maybe this is what you do when you're half way through building a piece of software and your mind is begging for distractions. Anyway it's a good read along with Eric's announcement of a

new product at SourceGear which also has to do with positioning.

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Thanks to all the hard work of

Mike Rohde of MakaluMedia.com we've got logos!

HelpSpot logo, notice the "spot" as well as how the spot turns into an exclamation point. Really nice colors, very vibrant.

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UserScape logo, the dot here is pulled through and makes the head of our little abstract user. Hmm I guess I need a name for him, have to think up one.

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I'd just like to say thanks again to Mike for all his hard work on this. I actually found Mike via the NSLog blog and his work on the MailDrop 2.0 logo. I think it's a real testement to the power of weblogs and how they can bring folks together

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I'm flippin around and BAM there's Smokey and the Bandit. You know AMC is quickly becoming one of my favorite channels. Lately they seem to have so many good movies on, especially late at night. The other night the Blues Brothers kept me up until 3am. The website is pretty slick as well for a channel that I used to think was for "old fogies". Does that mean I'm getting to be an old fogy? Can you be an old fogy before your 30?

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Getting scoblized and trying to decide if I should watch my stats or this really funny South Park that's on right now!

(Actually I can do both because I have the very cool AlchemyTV DVR software running on the old G5 :-))

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Blog Business Summit: "Expanding on a previous post where I showed how the google/alexa stats of our 3 month old blog compared to the northwest’s largest PR firm, I decided to run a similar test on a larger scale. This analysis contrasts A list blogger (and our conference keynoter) Robert Scoble to the top PR firms in the world. The result may serve to surprise those who write press releases for a living…"

(Via Blog Business Summit.) - Interesting analysis. Not exactly scientific but yet more circumstantial evidence that blogging can potentially help your business grow as much or more than high priced pencil pushers.

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MacMerc.com >> MWSF 2005
01:36 PM - Mac mini is in stores January 22nd.

01:34 PM - The Mac mini fits in the palm of your hand. Hook it into your own keyboard and mouse, or Apple's. Comes with Panther and iLife 05. Price point:$499 $599.

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Nice. I can see my office decked out with a bunch of these. No word on the specs yet, should be interesting.

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Looks like a nice overview of techniques. Need to go through this and make sure I'm catching everything I need to be.

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Dave and Adam mess up big time on this one

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Nice coding article by the guy who wrote the Notes R6 formula engine. R5 is the devil, there is no other way to say it, but I have heard better things about R6. The problem really is, as he says, that Notes is basically an operating system with many different apps running on top of it and as such most of those apps are only average. Of course then you put an average app like Notes Mail next to Outlook and it just looks silly.

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