Category Archives: Vladville

Dear Customer, STFU and GFO

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Sitting around this morning, watching television, and I cannot believe the outpour of anger at the airports over flights that were delayed to repair electrical systems that posed a threat to the passengers. Just what do people expect an airline … Continue reading

Cultural expectations of toll free numbers

IT Business, Vladville
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One of the fun parts of running a global business is trying to adjust to the different cultural and business expectations of different countries. If you’ve ever worked with the people from the far east you know what I mean, … Continue reading

The Loudmouth Kick In The AdSense

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In what is surely to be the most hotly disputed or buried story of 2008, recent study finds that “influencers” happen to have very little actual influence over their audience. Why, I’d never…  You mean to tell me that the … Continue reading

SWAGtrain has left the station

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First of all, apologies to those of you that recently won stuff from Vladville, podcasts, webcasts, comments, etc. It took me a while to get it all in order and things will be better going forward now that I have … Continue reading

Scheduling Woes & Conferencing

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It’s Monday morning and I’m sure the following may make many of you sick to your stomach so feel free to skip to the next paragraph: I love coming to my office with a smile on my face. I couldn’t … Continue reading

Lessons in Bad Marketing: University of Florida

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While I was in school, which teached me how to write this good, the college of business tried all it could to get us to take a semester abroad and study in UK, Spain, Italy. Had I known I would … Continue reading

The Cult of Vlad

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This has been a very good week, very busy week. I shared just one day of my life with you earlier this week and I have to say I enjoy reading your take on it. I consider myself quite normal, … Continue reading

Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be IT Managers

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I never blog about what I actually do for living because I am convinced that nobody believe me. And even when I do give you all a glimpse of what I do, the line of people lining up to kick … Continue reading

What would Vlad say?

Vladville
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So you come here every now and then and read (or listen, or watch) what I have to say. But here is your opportunity to ask whatever you’d like: Karl has invited me to his SMB Books conference call and … Continue reading

It’s the bad Vlad!

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Ok, so a week ago I took my wife (29) to see a Dr. Seuss movie and they had two Vlad’s in it. Coming to terms with not going to conferences this year means tons of swag piling up and … Continue reading