I’ve been in the SEO game for a long time, since sometime in the early aughts. I had a lot of temporary victories along the way including having the top placement on Google for popular hip hop and alternative culture keywords for years at a time. Now a few of my projects land on the … Read more
A regularly updated index of posts from: Transforming The Game: Business Transformation Welcome to Transforming The Game Disneyland and the Transformation of Disney
Transforming The Game: Business Transformation is a new project of mine that has a long history inside my busy head. Here’s my description from the site: Transforming The Game is a periodic column by Clyde F. Smith about business transformation. Every week or two I will share an interesting tale of a business that transformed … Read more
I always enjoy seeing the details of what themes, plugins and services bloggers and WordPress site creators are using. I often discover new products that way and often see an endorsement for a useful service I might not otherwise encounter. So here is my current WordPress blogging stack for Flux Research plus some bonus plugins … Read more
[Update: The Death of a Playlist Blog] Original Post: Some of you may have noticed that I recently started posting news links about the business of playlists at Playlist Biz. I just wanted to make a more official announcement here at Flux Research and explain what I’m up to. Playlist Biz is a lightweight blog designed to allow … Read more
My Learning To Be A Startup CEO series continues at Medium with tips from Mixcloud co-founder Nico Perez on building your team and finding your technical co-founder. Perez shared these tips for non-technical founders after discussing where he and his co-founders turn for answers when they have questions about building their startup. This is the … Read more
I just posted the second of two interviews related to the topic of Learning To Be A Startup CEO. The first was with Shezhad Daredia: Bop.fm CEO Shehzad Daredia’s “Incremental Path To Entrepreneurship” The second, posted today, is with Nico Perez of Mixcloud: Nico Perez On Where Mixcloud’s Founders Turn When They Have Startup Questions … Read more
I’ve been working over the years with a number of different RSS feed and email subscription options including FeedBurner, FeedBlitz and MailChimp. Lately I’ve been moving all my sites to FeedPress to take care of both those duties. Normally I wouldn’t post about what is relatively minor news to site users but I’m switching my … Read more
I recently began an interview series with startup CEOs about how they learned to do what they do starting with Shehzad Daredia, CEO and co-founder of Bop.fm. During the interview we discussed his status as a Thiel Fellowship mentor, teaching others what he knows, and I asked about his advice for young entrepreneurs considering ditching … Read more
I’ve been rather quiet of late. After having to put DanceLand on hiatus due to an overwhelming job situation, I’ve managed to start scraping together some time to move forward with my writing. But the first result has less writing than quoting! It’s an interview with Shehzad Daredia, CEO of Bop.fm. It’s also the first … Read more
