Chris Knudsen on Life & Business

They’ve officially lost it in the bay area (If they ever had “it” that is):

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Last week I went to Pei Wei and received the following fortunes:
Your hard work is about to pay off.
and…
You are headed in the right direction. Trust your instincts.
Awesome!
Tonight I went to Pei Wei and received the following fortunes:
Business and health matters will improve around you.
and…
You have the strength to overcome obstacles on your way to […]

Last nights episode of The Office provided some great lessons on sales. Jim takes a potential client out golfing in an effort to try and score the guys business. Here are a couple of good takeaways:

Never take non-sales people with you on a sales call
The line between persistence and being pushy is very very thin.
Always […]

I love photography. There is nothing I enjoy more than a beautiful photographic work of art. I just came across these amazing pictures on Digg and I thought I’d pass the link on to you for your viewing pleasure:
Click here for cool photographic art
I took up photography about five years ago as a hobby. I […]

My network has been incredibly valuable to me. I cannot overemphasis the importance of building a large, broad, and deep network full of people who provide multi-directional value. Here are a few tips I’ve learned about building and maintaining a good network:

Number 1 rule: You must provide value to your network. Don’t expect to have a […]

Google brand equity. Someone thinks Google has the highest brand equity in the world. I disagree. If a better search tool came along you, me, and the rest of the world would dump them in two seconds. They may have “equity” given the value of the company but they have no real loyalty.
China has more […]

I recently blogged about Podshow changing their name to Mevio. Its now official. The most telling part of the release is this line:
The makeover represents a shift from the “podcast era” to an era of premium, episodic Web content, the company said.
Translation: Podcasting is dead, the long tail means fail, and we’re going to try to get into something […]

My blog went down…again.
I got the following error when I logged into BlueHost:
2008-04-21 15:20:33: Performing MYSQL maintenance. ETA 30 minutes.
Shouldn’t you guys be doing things like that at 3 am instead of 3 pm?
I’ve been with  BlueHost for sometime now. I went with the company because I wanted to support a local Utah business but […]

I’m off to adtech this week in San Francisco. If you’re heading out catch me at the Sapha booth (#6564).
See you there and have a great week.
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Salt Lake-based MediaFORGE, a company I thought had passed away, launches a cool new interactive ad widget. Check it out:

Its good to see these guys are still around and kicking! Have a nice weekend!
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