product management

Product Review – when the value-added service becomes more important that the product itself

For my travels to Austin and my work with Transverse (www.tractbilling.com), I just became a Car2Go customer. Car2Go is a car sharing service that lets me skip the hassles of car ownership or conventional car rental. I paid a one time membership fee and — BOOM – I can reserve a car ahead of time, [...]


MarketingReportCard.com seeks BETA testers

Just launched free website that helps small business better measure and manage tactical marketing programs We are looking for beta testers for our new website called MarketingReportCard.com – a marketing measurement dashboard. Designed for small to mid-size businesses, companies can login to the beta version of the MarketingReportCard.com and document and measure tactical marketing results [...]


When higher education and economics collide

by Robert van der Hooning and Ben Bradley NOTE: Robert is a friend of mine who used to teach at Northwestern, University of Chicago and University of Illinois. He’s a former high-tech CEO and President of the International Bankers School in Zurich, NYC and Chicago. This article is the result of an ongoing discussion about [...]