Ron Lindeboom
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Me, I learned early on, Mark, that the organization seemed far more interested in hearing the side of the dues paying member than it ever cared about the consumer.
Over the years, I got cheated by a couple of companies that were members and they could have cared less.
I gave up on them many years ago. Long before the internet ever came along.
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[Mark Suszko] “Well, except for the thin-skinned and immature ones, but they don’t last long here anyhow.”
Yes, they do not last long here at the COW. The thin-skinned learn to either suck it up and go on, or they find that in a community where hundreds of thousands are posting, they don’t get their way all of the time.
No one does.
Not even those that are paying the bills.
Ron Lindeboom
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Hi Bob,
There is my favorite book that I always put forth as the single most important book (in my opinion) for anyone doing business in the current world order of things. It is…
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Chaotics: The Business of Managing and Marketing in the Age of Turbulence
by Philip Kotler, and John A. Caslione (Hardcover – May 15, 2009)
Buy New: 20 Used & new
Chaotics is one of those books that when you read it, it is so current that few books are its equal. I have recommended it to some of the management and marketing heads of companies that I work with, and to a person, they have all thanked me and said what a profound read it was to them.
Have fun, Bob.
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Bummer, as a truly cranky curmudgeon — and as someone who likely won’t ever stop changing changing subject lines when it makes sense to (or I just feel like it — I doubt this phenomenon will ever change.
It’s been going on like this for the 15 years we’ve been building media communities. I don’t foresee anything changing soon. But who knows, perhaps we’ll see a slow gradual change that takes place over the next 15 years or so. There is always hope.