Top stories published by Business Change and Business Process in February of 2011

Homepage

Open in app

Top Stories published by Business Change and Business Process in February of 2011

All

2011

February

Jeff Yablon in Business Change and Business Process

Feb 16, 2011

Does Google Forget? On Search Engine Optimization Penalties

With Search Engine Optimization more and more becoming the most important business change you can put in place, you know you’d better do it the right way. And although Google admits they even they don’t know the best way to do…

Jeff Yablon in Business Change and Business Process

Feb 2, 2011

Bill Maher, Socialism, Capitalism, and The NFL

See Bill Maher speak. See Bill Maher make people angry. See Bill Maher Make Sense.

On this week’s Real Time on HBO, the comedian/commentator went on a rant about how well socialism works. Unsurprisingly, not everyone liked…

Jeff Yablon in Business Change and Business Process

Feb 3, 2011

How Do Google and Bing Differ? Literally? Not At All!

Who knew? Search results you get using Bing aren’t any different from the results at Google, because Bing is stealing Google’s results.

Jeff Yablon in Business Change and Business Process

Feb 18, 2011

Doing What You Promise: Customer Service Simplified

It almost doesn’t matter what business you’re in, what the price tag is, or which part of the business process you’re working on: the easiest and best way to make great customer service happen and happen well is simple: just do what you…

Jeff Yablon in Business Change and Business Process

Feb 28, 2011

Search Engine Optimization: One Reason On-Line Reviews Stink

I wonder how much Penelope has paid Yelp for good reviews?

OK, I don’t know whether that’s happened. I mention Penelope paying for good reviews on Yelp only because Yelp’s been accused of some…

Jeff Yablon in Business Change and Business Process

Feb 7, 2011

“You Have Been Warned”

“You have been warned about this before. Please do not leave your link signature in all of your comments. I told you previously that it belongs in your profile.”

Jeff Yablon in Business Change and Business Process

Feb 10, 2011

On Twitter, You’re More Important Than Ashton Kutcher!

You know all those followers Ashton Kutcher and Kim Kardashian have on Twitter? Remember how I’ve told you that follower count just isn’t that important? Now, there’s proof.

Jeff Yablon in Business Change and Business Process

Feb 9, 2011

Where Business Change, VC, and Piracy Meet: Fred Wilson

Fred Wilson is a very successful venture capital guy. He’s happy to pay for his music downloads and streaming. But Fred Wilson is a music pirate.

Jeff Yablon in Business Change and Business Process

Feb 23, 2011

“Do What You Promise” Will Make Your SEO Work Better

Last week I talked about a simple way to deliver superb customer service: just do what you promise. I write about customer service quite a bit, and I’m passionate about it; customer service is what makes your business the right one to do…

Jeff Yablon in Business Change and Business Process

Feb 4, 2011

AOL is Just a Content Farm. And It Can’t Possibly Make Money

What if you write something and nobody reads it? Or produce a video and nobody watches? If it’s your money being spent to produce the media you lose money. And if it’s AOL’s money on the line they lose . . . an amazing amount…

Jeff Yablon in Business Change and Business Process

Feb 14, 2011

The E-Myth Revisited, and Revisited, and Revisited

About 18 months ago, my phone rang and on the other end was none other than Michael Gerber. OK, actually it was Michael Gerber’s assistant on the phone, but it turns out that Michael Gerber was requesting a meeting with me. A few days later…

Jeff Yablon in Business Change and Business Process

Feb 25, 2011

Google Unveils The Ultimate SEO Penalty: Invisibility

Yesterday Google turned the Search Engine Optimization world on its head. I had been all ready to write about Axl Rose today, as the erstwhile Guns N’ Roses front-man is the subject of a great article on Business Change in the latest…

Jeff Yablon in Business Change and Business Process

Feb 21, 2011

Don’t Anger Twitter. They Own You. Or Your Words. Or Not.

As you know, there’s this Twitter thing making the rounds of the Intertubes. All the kids are doing it. People have stopped blogging. 140 characters is the limit for most anything you have to say. Which of course means I’ve…

Jeff Yablon in Business Change and Business Process

Feb 11, 2011

Real World: The AOL / HuffPo / Tim Armstrong Debate Goes On

I was wrong. Twice. Tim Armstrong is a genius, and AOL buying the Huffington Post doesn’t represent the disassembly of journalism in favor of pure search engine optimization.

Jeff Yablon in Business Change and Business Process

Feb 1, 2011

The Sixteenth Amendment Scuttles Health Care Reform

Despite not being an attorney, I have a better-than-most understanding of the United States Constitution. And The US Health Care Reform Act Violates that Constitution. But it’s being rolled out, anyway. It’s like Business Change. You change…

Jeff Yablon in Business Change and Business Process

Feb 8, 2011

AOL + HuffPo = Salvation. But Only for Tim Armstrong

Tim Armstrong is starting to look a lot smarter. But he’s making me look smarter, still. Now that AOL has bought The Huffington Post, Tim Armstrong’s plan for World Domination via Content Farm is actually workable. But that’s a bad thing…

Jeff Yablon in Business Change and Business Process

Feb 24, 2011

Business Change, Fifteen Pennies At a Time [Square Deal]

I have this little device in my bag of tricks. It’s called a Square, both because that’s its shape and because Square is the name of the company that manufactures The Square.

Jeff Yablon in Business Change and Business Process

Feb 22, 2011

When “The Only Bad Press Is No Press” Marketing Becomes Easy

So I look down at my Droid one night last week, and there’s a nasty Tweet directed at me by Nick Denton. Nick is a famously-cantankerous (and very successful) blogger, and owns the Gawker Media family of blogs. Gawker…

Jeff Yablon in Business Change and Business Process

Feb 15, 2011

Surviving Valentines Day, Groupon And Great Customer Service

Valentines Day is in the rear-view mirror. You’ve spent an inflated amount on flowers, a similarly-inflated price on dinner, and moved on. Your life is the same this morning as it was a couple of days ago, except you’re a bit…

January 2011

March 2011

These were the top 19 stories published by Business Change and Business Process in February of 2011. You can also dive into daily archives for February of 2011 by using the calendar at the top of this page.

About

Business Change and Business Process

Talking About Business Change is Easy. MAKING Business Change is Not.

More information