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Effektiv
I consulted for my friend's smart building startup, building up the marketing and sales funnels from scratch.
- New Paradigms in Power Distribution
- Why Smart Buildings Need Open Standards
- Putting Smart Buildings on the Blockchain
- Balancing Your Building Management System's Data Load
- Smart Lighting Can Brighten Up the Future of Work
- Smart Companies Belong In Smart Offices
- Smart Buildings Are Well Worth the Investment
- 3 Ways Smart Buildings Can Boost Productivity
- Is Your Building Secure? Time to Discuss Access Controls
- Measuring the Value of Occupancy Analytics
- What Is a Smart Building?
Applico
I ran the marketing at Applico and wrote a ton of articles, some under my own name and others I ghostwrote for my CEO. I managed the company blog, my CEO's column on Inc, and pitched and wrote a number of piece for industry publications.
APPLICO BLOG & INC COLUMN
- This $8 Trillion Industry Is About to Get Disrupted
- Not Even Home Depot Is Safe From Amazon
- Disney's Breakup with Netflix Won't Go Well Without a Platform
- Facebook and Google Are Literally Breaking the News
- The Hotel Industry Finally Starts Embracing Platform Innovation
- How Product Marketplaces Can and Should Evolve
- Why Facebook Reigns Supreme at Social
- Amazon Isn’t a Monopoly – It’s an Opportunist
- Grainger’s Disappointing Q2 Highlights the Ever-Growing Amazon Threat
- The Disruptive Future of Interior Design Is Here
- The Chatbot Revolution Is Getting Reimagined
- Turvo Brings Much-Needed Collaboration to Modernize Logistics
- The World Needs an Anti-Amazon Alliance
- Freightos Is Poised to Transform the Trillion-Dollar Freight Industry
- Rental Companies’ Team-Up With Autonomous Tech Is a Last Gasp
- Snapchat's New Map Feature Is a Sign of Hope
- Quantopian's Army of Analysts Is Defining the Future of Investment
- Apple's New HomePod Is a Total Dud
- If Gamut Hopes To Succeed, Grainger Needs To Learn From AmazonSupply
- Plaid Is Powering the Future of Banking and Finance
- How the Nintendo Switch & Platform Thinking Saved the Company
- Google Announced Some Awesome Upgrades to Its Platforms
- Grainger (GWW) Missed Earnings – Good for Amazon Business, Bad for B2B Distributors
- Lessons From Snapchat's Awful First Earnings Call
- What Is a Platform For the $8 Trillion B2B Distribution Market?
- Google Assistant Is Open Now So Google Can Be Everywhere
- Amazon Opened Its Alexa Voice Software in Pursuit of Further Dominance
- Facebook's A.I. Assistant Shows Incredible Platform Promise
- The Investment Game Is Being Disrupted By iCapital Network
- Google's Ads Fiasco May Cause More Headaches Than Anticipated
- GOAT Is Preparing to Crush the Shoe Resale Market
- BigRentz Is Transforming the $52 Billion Equipment Rental Industry
- Airbnb Drops $200M to Further Its Travel Takeover
- Facebook Takes Aim At YouTube With New Video Strategy
- Twitter Gets Smart and Retools Its Content Discovery
- Snapchat Flip-flops On Creepiness And Enables Ad Targeting
- Facebook Takes a Step Toward Solving Its Identity Crisis
- For Students, Landing a Job Only Requires Handshake and a Smile
- Mercari Doesn't Think E-Commerce Is A Done Deal
- Meet Yup, the edtech startup that's rethinking tutoring
- Digital Transformation in Chemicals Industry with Platforms
- Trolling on Reddit Underscores the Need for Rules and Standards
- Ola Is Transforming the Automotive Experience With an Entertainment Platform
- SpotHero Paves the Way for Parking
- Hotels Should Be Wary of Airbnb's Next Moves
- Digital Transformation for the Trucking Industry with Platforms
- Can Vimeo Help Save the Cable Industry?
- Freight Forwarding Is Finally Getting Disrupted
- Amazon Business Has Painted a Bullseye on the Industrial Supply Market
- Nintendo Finally Switches to a Full Gaming Platform Business With Its New Console
- Amazon's Next Billion Dollar Opportunity Could Be Food
- Why Spotify's Move to Feature User-Generated Content is a Smart Move
- Facebook Goes to Work
- Apple's iCar Dreams Rev Its Engines
- Can the Public Beat GM, Google, and Uber on Self-Driving Cars?
- Google Acquires Apigee, Reminding Us of APIs’ Value to Platforms
FEATURED ARTICLES
Industrial Distribution:
How Industrial Distributors Can Avoid the Mistakes of Circuit City
Opinion: Gamut Shows That Grainger Is 5 Years Behind Amazon
Electronic Business News:
Amazon Plays Hardball with Electronics Distributors
Electronics Distributors Need a Marketplace Strategy to Defeat Amazon
The Amazon Effect: Future of Electronics Distribution is Marketplace Model
LBM Journal:
The LBM Industry, Disrupted
Metal Center News:
Metals Will Be Dominated By Marketplaces, But Whose?
Industrial Supply:
Modern Monopolies
Bloomberg:
B2B Distributors Have Opportunity for Marketplace
Modern Healthcare:
Amazon Poised to Deliver Disruption in Medical Supply Industry
Wiredcraft
I was part of Wiredcraft's marketing team and managed the blog during my time there, from "How to Recruit For Your Startup in China" until "Our Job Ads Will Never Die."
- How We Do Business (and Land the Sale)
- Wiredcraft Hits the Beach
- Uncovering Our Tracks With Link Tagging and Google Analytics
- Company Blogging Done Best (or, Make Sure It's Not a Snoozefest)
NDI
This was my first real job after graduating college, assisting the technology programs team. I edited the blog and wrote a few posts myself. Forgive the lack of readability; I was still learning.
- My House Is Smarter Than Yours
- It's the End of the Year As We Know It
- The DemTools Are Yours Now: A Retrospective
- DemTools 2.0 - Petitions
- DemTools 2.0 - FixMyCommunity
- DemTools 2.0 - Elections
- DemTools 2.0 - DKAN
- DemTools 2.0 - Civi
- DemTools 2.0 - Issues
- The Importance of Being Young
- Choose Your Adventure: Hackathon Helps Build Smart Games for Democratic Development
- Batten Down the e-Hatches
- Games for Good: Video Games, Education, and International Development
- Hello, World (and all who inhabit it)