Category: Business

  • How to make your business card a smart card

    How to make your business card a smart card

    A post by Frank Eliason on business cards got me thinking a lot about the value of such bits of paper. And they are bits of paper, aren’t they? Name, title, company, logo, address, phone, email, etc, printed on rectangular…

  • But it’s not Cadbury’s

    As we’re in a recession, you have to look for cost savings wherever you can find them. From a consumer’s point of view, that often means compromising your brand preferences. At least, that’s how it looks to me when I…

  • Twitter drives $3m sales for Dell

    While many businesses are trying to work out how to make money from Twitter, computer maker Dell shows what they have done to validate Twitter as a credible business tool. Last December, Dell claimed $1 million in sales that the…

  • The best rate to the UK isn’t Vodafone

    When I arrived at San Francisco International airport on Saturday after a 10-hour flight from London, I switched on my Nokia N95 8GB mobile phone. This is my primary phone, on an account with Vodafone UK. I had a few…

  • Business opinion of Twitter by the numbers

    A poll last month by business network LinkedIn reveals some useful and fascinating opinions by nearly 4,000 business people about Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Digg and the iPhone. In summary, the survey results show that a clear majority (30%) of those…