Wednesday Links: Assigning Priorities

Nathaniel Ward — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 11:45:02 +0000

Prioritizing tasks can be hard. Trent Hamm offers some advice on how to distinguish the important from the merely urgent.
Why is your marketing copy not converting? Copyblogger has some ideas.
“Every piece of the ‘success story’ of the auto bailout,” Todd Zywicki argues, would “seem to be in error.”
Regulatory capture in reverse: heavily regulated industries are protesting a Florida proposal that would remove licensing requirements for professions like interior design and dance instruction.
Timeliness and concision are the keys to successful marketing on Facebook, Lauren Drell reports. Equally as important: asking your supporters to engage.
Last but not least, Readability is an intriguing new online tool to make long-form online text easier to read in the browser. The Chrome extension is pretty nifty, but I haven’t taken the plunge to purchase the full service.

What I’m Reading — January 6th

Nathaniel Ward — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:25:01 +0000

Rock Solid HTML Emails How to build e-mails that work in every e-mail client.
How Apple Leaks Information “Often Apple has a need to let information out, unofficially. The company has been doing that for years, and it helps preserve Apple’s consistent, official reputation for never talking about unreleased products.”
Todd Zywicki on Proposed New Credit Card Limits. “What would happen if the Merchants Payments Coalition gets its way and politicians squeeze interchange fees? Credit cards are essentially a closed economic system: A reduction in interchange fees will have to be offset by increased revenues elsewhere or a reduction in costs. For example, issuers could try to increase the revenue generated from consumers through higher interest payments, higher penalty fees, or reinstating annual fees.”