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Bootstrapper » Carnival of Bootstrapping Entrepreneurs Edition #1 — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 05:00:40 +0000

[...] Is Guy Kawasaki’s Backhand Better Than His Serve? by Ben Yoskovitz of Instigator Blog. Ben, who recently launched Standout Jobs, compares tennis, entrepreneurship and Guy Kawasaki’s recent launch of his Truemors web 2.0 site. Moral: follow-up matters in entrepreneurship and business. [...]

By: Ben Yoskovitz

Ben Yoskovitz — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 04:44:40 +0000

Robyn – I may have used follow-up and follow-through interchangeably. The message is for the person delivering the serve – go for the ace, but if you don't get it, that's OK, you still can follow-up (or follow-through) with a winner.

Hope that clears things up!

By: herval

herval — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 04:29:50 +0000

hey Ben, thanks for your comment! Glad to see you guys are flesh and bones.
I didn't really mean to say that you or Fred think you are movie stars or something – I was actually refering to the videoblog scene in general, like a lot of people on youtube and other vblog sites do.
I enjoy the idea on standout jobs (and the work you guys doing is great – doing different is always great!) – I (like some other people, I presume) just tend to get bored when searching information on 'streamed formats' – like looking for specific things on a podcast, or having to watch some hours of videos to extract something. Anyway, I'm watching standoutjobs closely (hell, who knows my next job comes from your site, eh?) and wish you guys the best. Even if u don't get an Oscar in the process

By: Ben Yoskovitz

Ben Yoskovitz — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 03:44:40 +0000

Robyn – I may have used follow-up and follow-through interchangeably. The message is for the person delivering the serve – go for the ace, but if you don’t get it, that’s OK, you still can follow-up (or follow-through) with a winner.

Hope that clears things up!

By: herval

herval — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 03:29:50 +0000

hey Ben, thanks for your comment! Glad to see you guys are flesh and bones.
I didn’t really mean to say that you or Fred think you are movie stars or something – I was actually refering to the videoblog scene in general, like a lot of people on youtube and other vblog sites do.
I enjoy the idea on standout jobs (and the work you guys doing is great – doing different is always great!) – I (like some other people, I presume) just tend to get bored when searching information on ‘streamed formats’ – like looking for specific things on a podcast, or having to watch some hours of videos to extract something. Anyway, I’m watching standoutjobs closely (hell, who knows my next job comes from your site, eh?) and wish you guys the best. Even if u don’t get an Oscar in the process

By: Business Blogger

Business Blogger — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 16:25:47 +0000

I had looked at Truemors only once before and it just didn't catch my attention. I go back now, as I'm reading this post, and it still doesn't do anything for me.

Guy, you should definitely follow-up with a redesign of that landing page. The site seems to just run together for me and makes everything hard to read. Maybe it's the icons, the color, or the spacing, but it seems to hurt my eyes.

Maybe it's the branding. "Rumors" is not a hot search term by any means. Is it possible that the name is fooling people? To me you're trying to sell a VW Bug (you own a Ford dealership) to someone (a VW fanatic) that's looking across the street at the VW dealership. With the right advertisement you can sell that Bug. The problem is they won't come back to your lot when it's time to buy their next VW.

By: Business Blogger

Business Blogger — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 15:25:47 +0000

I had looked at Truemors only once before and it just didn’t catch my attention. I go back now, as I’m reading this post, and it still doesn’t do anything for me.

Guy, you should definitely follow-up with a redesign of that landing page. The site seems to just run together for me and makes everything hard to read. Maybe it’s the icons, the color, or the spacing, but it seems to hurt my eyes.

Maybe it’s the branding. “Rumors” is not a hot search term by any means. Is it possible that the name is fooling people? To me you’re trying to sell a VW Bug (you own a Ford dealership) to someone (a VW fanatic) that’s looking across the street at the VW dealership. With the right advertisement you can sell that Bug. The problem is they won’t come back to your lot when it’s time to buy their next VW.