Archive for 'Marketing'

Disrupt: A solid business idea that would allow me to GTFO of the rat race

I just finished reading Disrupt: Think the Unthinkable to Spark Transformation in Your Business, a provocative book by Luke Williams that utterly destroys the typical strategic brain storming models employed by today’s businesses. His argument is that in order to come up with a truly innovative business model, business strategists shouldn’t be afraid to throw [...]

My SEMCON 2009 Presentation – Twisted Twitter Tactics #semcon09

Here are the slides of my SEMCON 2009 Presentation: Twisted Twitter Tactics, how to turn Twitter into a mega traffic channel overnight. Twisted Twitter Tactics View more presentations from mikevillar. To recap: For businesses, Twitter is effective as a Marketing/Lead Generation platform only if it is used to build trust for your brand. Start with [...]

Pulling off my OWN #daniela: The..um…”MV Foundation”

Last week, David Armano VP of Experience Design for Critical Mass and one of of the few bloggers I really look up to, brought the case of Daniela, a mother of three kids, forth in his blog and his 8,600+ followers strong twitter network. Daniela’s family, at that time, was living in David’s house after [...]

When I finally put up my own company…(A message to IT Administrators everywhere)

My workforce would be comprised purely of humanoid robots. Specifically those that resemble a female human with 36c breasts and blond hair capable of performing fellatio and maybe a bit of sexy dancing. These robots would be productive 100% all the time–I will mandate that each and every one of them are to log in [...]

Semcon 2008, sorry.

Friends, I have a confession to make: There is a huge disparity between the life I chronicle in this great blog and the real life I live. You see, in this blog, you read about an overweight 26-year-old man who has a menagerie of mental and emotional dysfunctions that range from anxiety to borderline psychosis–conditions [...]