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Wal-mart’s “shoot Yourself in the Head” Strategy

The Kindle Fire is squarely targeted at growing retail sales for Amazon

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Wake Up! Ballmer’s Driving Microsoft Off a Cliff!

Steve smiles and says “Well, I wake up Alex.”

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Wake Up or Get Out of the Way

News Corp is a major player in internet communications owning, among other properties, MySpace.com. This is in addition to book publishing, newspapers, direct broadcast satellite, film, cable TV, and magazines.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Wake Up Happy

In his recently published book ‘Wake Up Happy - The dream big, win big guide to transforming your life’, there is a chapter entitled ‘Why Play should be the Work of Adults’.

Gabor George Burt · 29 April 2025

Wake Up Call! How Stagnation Spiral is Hurting Illinois

Illinois' economic decline, driven by job losses and high taxes, is prompting residents to consider leaving, highlighting the urgent need for leadership to address the state's deepening issues.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Waiting for the Economy? That Won’t Work.

People fear they'll lose their jobs, so they don't eat out as often.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Wait, Too Late

Kodak missed the digital photography wave, and in the 1990’s was kicked off the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Kodak has recently layed off nearly 30,000 employees

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

WPO Southern California Event

Gabor George Burt · 29 April 2025

WELCOME TO THE NEW ERA OF AUTOMATION

Vending machines have evolved beyond the pull a level and get a product transaction.

Michael Graber · 29 April 2025

Vision Beats Numbers – How Apple Showed Intel a Better Way to Grow

Apple's success demonstrates the power of acting on trends rather than relying only on past data.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Virgin- Use White Space to innovate, disrupt markets, grow, drive value creation

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Virgin Wins By Investing in Growing Markets C8

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

View of the Swamp

Welcome to the Swamp. "It’s always something" Roseann Rosanadana used to say on Saturday Night Live. And so it is in the Swamp.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Verizon’s Aol/yahoo Debacle – Think You Can Fix That?

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Verizon's AOL/YAHOO Debacle– Think You Can Fix That?

It is crucial to understand why these to GIANTS of the internet are now part of history’s dustbin.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Velveeta-land

Company CEO Deromedi explained away the poor performance with "We don’t want to repeat mistakes we made in early 2003 when we raised prices and had significant share declines."

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Vegas Big Mac Attack

According to the Chicago Tribune, "The store managers’ performance will largely determine just how successful McDonald’s is going forward."

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Value of marketing bookmarklet?

You should always use a simple rule of thumb: if you can’t measure it, don’t do it.

Rob Gonda · 29 April 2025

Value is Created in the Future, Not the Past – U.s. News and Other Old Brands

Businesses have to develop and fulfull future scenarios, and forget about what made them successful in the past.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Value Goes to Growth – Apple, Microsoft, Sears/kmart

Apple now has a market cap of $210B. Microsoft has a market cap of about $260B.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Value Creating Ceo – Steve Jobs, Innovation and Apple

Steve Jobs added $150 billion in shareholder value, proving innovation drives success more than cost-cutting.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Utilizing Big Trends

President Franklin Roosevelt declared the retirement age would be 65 when he established Social Security.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Using ‘on camera’ filters or Not

A clean image refers to shooting a raw image without any in camera processing .

Michael O'Toole · 29 April 2025

Using White Space to Learn and Grow – Google V Microsoft

Nothing is more accurate than real market feedback, as readers of this blog have heard me say often.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025