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The 10 Commandments of Entrepreneur Business Relationships

By James T. Berger May 15, 2008

So you want to go into your own business? Maybe you have been an employee for most of your career or you…

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The Making of a Billion Dollar Business: Low-Power Schottky

By Tim J. Smith, PhD May 1, 2008

Mark Shepherd, Texas Instruments Chairman from “76 to ’88, described Low Power Schottky as “the single most profitable product line in the…

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Top 6 – May 2008

By Tim J. Smith, PhD May 1, 2008

Emerging Spring From the Winter of Creative Destruction Understand the value customers seek, and excel. Big Progress is rarely received with overwhelming…

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Want To Know Who Sarah Marshall Is?

By James T. Berger April 1, 2008

Signs are displayed on buses, taxis billboards all over the country. They are written in black-on-white graffiti and say things like: “I’m…

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Sales Versus Marketing: Vive la difference

By Tim J. Smith, PhD April 1, 2008

“More than 30 years after the call to integrate sales and marketing activities ,… we find no firms that had adopted this…

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B-2-B Trademarks and Brands – A Slippery Slope

By James T. Berger April 1, 2008

While the marketing gurus will tell you about the importance of trademark and brand building for business-to-business products and services, if you…

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Top 6 – April 2008

By Tim J. Smith, PhD April 1, 2008

Thunder and Calamity, Striking Discharges, April Showers Manage your Reaction to Brand Infringements. It’s about money not emotions. Teasers build that Word…

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Sony’s Blu-ray Triumphs over Toshiba’s HD-DVD

By Tim J. Smith, PhD March 1, 2008

Competitive Equivalence, Competitive Advantage, and the Role of Price The four-year war over the next-generation DVD format for home videos that deliver…

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Looking Positively at the ‘R’ Word

By James T. Berger March 1, 2008

There is an old Christmas tale about the child who finds nothing under the Christmas tree but a pile horse manure.  Rather…

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Adding Bite to Your E-Mails

By James T. Berger March 1, 2008

If e-mail has become your main marketing squeeze, there is a wonderful resource on the Internet.  Her name is Pat Friesen.  Visit…

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