Consulting for Social Media, Niche Social Networks & Digital Monetization

“Approximately once a decade, a radical new technology emerges that fundamentally changes the business landscape.  In every case, regardless of prior competitive dynamics, businesses that understand and appropriately adopt the technology win, while those that fail to do so lose.  In the 1970s, this was mainframe computing.  IN the 1980s, it was the PC. In [...]

A Better Micro-Payment Solution than PayPal

Paul Allen recently asked me to identify the best solution for accepting micro-payments. The problem is that websites like LDSaudio.com, which sell a large number of products for a small amount, are charged very high minimum credit card processing fees. This makes the transactions almost impossible. For example, if LDSaudio.com sold a digital [...]

Google – The #1 Angel Investor for Small Businesses

What did small businesses do without Google? In this blog entry I’m not referring to the Goolge search functionality, although that has revolutionized the accessibility of information. I am instead referring to the lesser known tools that Google has made available to small businesses. Nearly all of these tools are available for free, [...]