Marketing Manager vs. Entrepreneur-exhaust

Entrepreneurs breathe their own exhaust. Marketing managers ask the audience what it thinks and try to keep entrepreneur-exhaust from poisoning it. The DEMO Innovation Tour came to town last week and held a reception at the office of one of the sponsors. Plenty of entrepreneurs were there, and their enthusiasm was palpable. In fact, it [...]

Getting Your Content Thing Started – A Newsletter Article

Marketing managers battle a dozen dragons a week. Content often falls to the bottom of that list of dragons. “I’m glad you followed up,” said the VP of marketing, once I’d reached him by phone. “Thanks for keeping me on my toes about our technical content. We’ve decided that we need to spend some more [...]

How to Create an eBook in Less Than 20 Hours (Part 2 of 2)

More on writing an eBook, a relatively painless content vehicle that lies somewhere between a presentation and a white paper. Resuming from last week’s post on creating an eBook, I had chosen Microsoft PowerPoint as an adequate application with which to build an adequate eBook. Start with a template… The usual design guidelines apply to [...]

How to Create an eBook in Less Than 20 Hours (Part 1 of 2)

An eBook is a relatively painless vehicle for content, especially when an article would be too short for the topic and a white paper would be too long. A few months ago I decided I needed to write an eBook. The term “eBook” (or “e-book”) applies to two very different items: an electronic version of [...]