Josh McCormack's Blog, page 2
November 20, 2017
What Should I Charge?
The age old question, what should I charge for my work, when I’m working for myself. First, the situation. Maybe you’re just trying things out, getting a little extra money and doing the “side...
October 5, 2017
LinkedIn Reexamined
Long ago LinkedIn was a community building system, where Questions and Groups let you establish your expertise on particular topics, learn and network. It was to your advantage to grow your community aggressively. Now...
August 3, 2017
The Square-Cube Law of Social Network Companies
I’m going to try to take a law of science and apply it to what happens when little, innovative, tech driven companies, in this case social networking companies, become gigantic companies with shareholders and...
July 17, 2017
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) PG-13
Spider-Man: Homecoming picks up where Spider-Man’s work as a fill in with the Avengers took place, from his perspective, and continues with Peter Parker back in Queens trying to find his place as a...
June 19, 2017
Helpful tips for people in India and elsewhere who want to seem like they are in the US
Don’t put USA in the location you claim to be at. So, say you’re in New Jersey, not New Jersey USA. headquartered in New Jersey, USA and offshore development center in India. Have a...
May 26, 2017
Could Record Stores Be Reborn?
If you were born in the late 80s or after, depending on where you live, you may not have ever been in a record store. I don’t mean the CD aisle of Walmart. I’m...
May 24, 2017
Clear Content Clear Results
I’ve been really interested in researching productized services lately, essentially where you get clients to pay a monthly subscription fee for a specific offering of your services. It makes for consistent, ongoing work, and...
April 18, 2017
How Bitcoin Can Reveal the True Value of the Chinese Yuan
As you may or may not know, the Chinese currency, the Yuan, has a fixed exchange rate set against the US dollar. If you’ve wondered what Trump was going on about, when he’s talked...
March 31, 2017
Which Story Platform Will Survive?
In our world of constant copying nearly every platform that claims to be social in some fashion has entered a contestant in the Story Thunderdome. Many will enter, one will emerge. Is that a...
March 30, 2017
The Bestest Influencer Keynoters on Social Media!
There’s pretty much no better place to find the biggest misunderstandings in social media than in lists of the most important people in social media. Many of the usual suspects listed don’t interact with...
