by Mark O'Brien | Nov 7, 2014
This blog, you may recall, has a theme, which states, in part: “Everything of value has a price. The price must cover the cost.” Accordingly, let’s take a moment to contemplate the value of our goods and services. Let’s take into consideration...
by Mark O'Brien | Nov 6, 2014
We recently conducted a survey of 1,500 companies from the Fortune 1000 to determine what those companies would like their new websites to feature if they could have new websites just by snapping their fingers. These are the top five responses: Cool stuff More stuff...
by Mark O'Brien | Nov 5, 2014
I recently stopped in a coffee shop for lunch. As I was paying for my repast, the earnest young man behind the counter told me all the food was prepared on the premises and said proudly, “It’s all food you can feel good about eating.” Uh oh. Had I...
by Mark O'Brien | Nov 4, 2014
Years ago, returning from a Sunday afternoon outing with some friends in their station wagon, I said I couldn’t believe the weekend was ending — the next day would be Monday already. The three-year-old daughter of my friends called to her father from the...
by Mark O'Brien | Nov 3, 2014
“I’d walk a mile over hot coals to [fill in the blank].” “I’d crawl a mile over broken glass to [fill in the blank].” How many times have you heard statements like that? Certainly there’s a proliferation of love-related songs...