January 2010

January 30, 2010

The World Doesn’t Need What You’re Selling

By Doug Stephens In the end, the world doesn’t need what you’re selling.  It doesn’t matter if you sell shoes, cameras, cars, goldfish or even iPads.  The world can […]
January 21, 2010

Never Bring a Knife to a Gunfight

It’s been called the first rule of modern warfare – “never bring a knife to a gun fight”.  Although I’m not certain who coined the phrase, […]
January 13, 2010

H&M Submits to Twitter Firestorm

One of my favorite quotes about social media is from noted social scientist and technology expert,Clay Shirky. It goes like this: “Tools don’t get socially interesting until they […]
January 8, 2010

6 Big Ideas for a New Decade in Retail

By Doug Stephens I had coffee recently with a friend who works in the mobile technology sector.  We were talking about how much progress had taken place […]