Last week I wrote about email as a vehicle to drive user engagement.
Here is another good example from SlideShare. Earlier this week I posted a presentation on paid search best practices from a recent …

Below is a clip from July 9th’s Today Show where Kathie Lee Gifford raved about Living Proof’s No Frizz Restyling Spray — even said it would “change your life”. Not bad!

We are excited to announce the newest Dogpatch Labs class here in San Francisco. It includes entrepreneurs and companies that have been part of the lab over the last few months and those that just …

Before getting to more iPad posts (see this am’s here and here), I have a couple of portfolio related posts.
On QVC yesterday, Living Proof announced their new No Frizz Try Me Kit and the launch …

In an effort to expedite checkout and prevent shopping cart abandonment, retailers like Amazon have pushed “One Click” purchasing and recently introduced “Amazon PayPhrase“. That focus is even more important for time-sensitive e-commerce sites like …

A couple weeks ago I wrote about the Mindy Grossman’s great perspective about hiring talent – look for tiggers not eeyores.
The below quote is related and comes from Peter Brooke’s new book, “A Vision …

In what Ad Age is calling “the Season of Scrooge”, households are predictably cutting back on holiday shopping plans. An Accenture study has shown that consumers will be more cost conscious, shop primarily at discount …

My sister Randi Spoon is a very talented fashion designer. She just graduated from Syracuse University and their College of Visual and Performing Arts. Her portfolio is now available on her new website, RandiSpoon.com. Enjoy:

I will be at the Montgomery Technology Conference through Wednesday. If you will be attending or are in the Santa Monica area – please let me know!

Introducing http://news.ryanspoon.com – I encourage you to test it out!
About a year ago, I weened myself off of Digg (at least partially) and moved onto Hacker News. Hacker News is the best mix of technology …

While seeing a movie over Thanksgiving (the new James Bond), I noticed the following signage for the new movie “Confessions of a Shopaholic.” The movie is based on the “Shopaholic” book series – but it …

I wrote about JibJab’s terrific viral marketing alongside High School Musical 3 (which grossed $42m over the weekend) and said that web / social marketers should aspire to create such engaging, cleverly branded campaigns.

Try JibJab …