- 6:15 pm - Wed, Jun 23, 2010
Make “The Wait” Less Boring
The iPhone 4 is dropping tomorrow, and if you read my Virtual Lines post from last week, or remember the past iPhone launches, you know there is going to be an insane line up of folks just dying to get their paws on the new “it” gadget. There are more opportunities as a result of the lines than meets the “i” (get it?).
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- 3:06 pm - Thu, Jun 17, 2010
Virtual Lines
The upcoming release of the iPhone 4 has me thinking about how insanely long the lines will be for the early adopters who pre-ordered Apple’s latest “it” product. The formation of physical lines seems so 1995 with the technology we have today. Here’s an idea I came up with that just may work to resolve queuing up outside the Apple Stores the night before June 24th.
The idea will work with location based services like foursquare or Gowalla. Rather than lining up and waiting for things like the iPhone, you’ll simply check into a virtual line.
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- 2:53 pm - Tue, Jun 15, 2010
New Author E-Book Tips
Okay, so I’ve never written an e-book before, so it may seem alarming to some that here I am, giving tips on something I’ve never even attempted in the past. But, if I was to write an e-book as an author with virtually no following, this is how I would go about it. I know there has to be a slew of people just itching to write something to share, so maybe this will help.
To start, I’d research some websites to help me write and eventually publish. One website I’m dying to try is FastPencil.com (which I will soon write a post about). With FastPencil, you can write and easily get your work published in a physical format aka a book, or translated into a PDF to share online or with iPad and Kindle users. Since we want to avoid the risk of making traditional books at high costs, we’ll only focus on the e-book publication.
Once you have written your masterpiece, the one pricing strategy I recommend may sound foreign, but it’s called FREE.
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