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Derailed [Book Review]

by Justin Levy on January 23, 2010

Most of the business books that are published focus on teaching you what you can do to improve your sales, marketing, customer retention, productivity or a number of other business-related goals.  The case studies in these books typically highlight role models of the concepts being described and then have actionable tips that you can follow [...]

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The Audacity to Win Video Review

by Justin Levy on November 12, 2009

Were you as amazed as most of the rest of the country when Barack Obama seemingly came out nowhere to take the 2008 Presidential election by storm?  Have you sat back and scratched your head wondering how the Obama campaign did it?  Are you amongst the group that wants to understand how they built such [...]

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Ignore Everybody Video Book Review

by Justin Levy on October 25, 2009

Are you looking for a book that, according to Guy Kawasaki, will “kick your ass and push you out of your zone of mediocrity and stagnation”?  What about a book that is described by Pamela Slim as bringing “the topic of creativity out of the lofty halls of academia…into a place where the average person [...]

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Twitterville Video Book Review

by Justin Levy on September 9, 2009

Today I review Twitterville by Shel Israel.  I enjoyed reading Twitterville because Shel does a great job of telling the stories that have come to make Twitter what many of us love.  The book doesn’t provide you with a lot of tactical, go out and do it-type information.  But, what it does do is tell [...]

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The Think Big Manifesto – Video Book Review

by Justin Levy on August 5, 2009

I recently finished reading The Think Big Manifesto by Michael Port.  You might already know Michael from his previous book, The Contrarian Effect.  Check out my review below.  If you can’t see the video, you can grab it over on YouTube too.
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Note: Sorry for some of the lighting issues. It was my first time [...]

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Thanks to my friend Jason Moore-Brown (@mobomedia) I got a chance to test out a few products from Incipio.  Incipio makes all kinds of awesome cases and other accessories for your favorite electronics such as laptops, BlackBerry, iPhone, Kindle, and many many more.  I really enjoyed the laptop and iPhone cases that I’ve been testing [...]

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Today I review two books which I read while away on my honeymoon in St. Maarten.  First up, Integration Marketing by Mark Joyner discusses ways to market your product or service by integrating it into other streams.  Second up to bat is Alan Webber’s Rules of Thumb which, in my opinion, is one of the [...]

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Shortly after the conclusion of SXSW, Dave Delaney (@davedelaney) of Griffin was nice enough to send me the AirCurve after I geeked out over it when I first saw it.  The AirCurve is an acoustic amplifier for the iPhone.  Using the iPhone’s built-in speaker along with the “wavecurve”, the AirCurve amplifies the sound to approximately [...]

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Social Media Cribs – Pirate Edition

by Justin Levy on June 1, 2009

A couple weeks ago Chris Brogan and I were in Santa Barbara to hang out with the good folks over at Citrix Online (client). When our good friend Graham Farrar heard we were coming to town, he was nice enough to hook us up big willie style with a ridiculous mansion. You see, [...]

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What Would Google Do and Gung Ho – Book Reviews

by Justin Levy on May 30, 2009

Today’s reviews are one about a company that everyone wants to know more about, Google, and the other about igniting the people in your company to do great things.  First up is What Google Would Do? by Jeff Jarvis which I really enjoyed.  Jeff broke the book up in a neat way and I really [...]

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