What Business Are You In?

Many businesses suffer from an affliction known as “marketing myopia“, a term ably presented and explored by Theodore Levitt in Harvard Business Review. A central component of Levitt’s essay is the danger in focusing on products rather than customers. While this was written in 1960, it still rings true today. For …

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The Age of Twitter’s Platform

Cupping Water

As usual, Fred McClimans got me to thinking with this blog post in a tweet: Are we witnessing the beginning of the profitability of Twitter AND the end of its present value? @berkson0 @nigelcameron — FRED MCCLIMANS (@fredmcclimans) June 30, 2012 It’s my basic operating premise that most businesses don’t …

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