Erich Stauffer

  • X Marks the Spot

    X Marks the Spot

    After I got laid off from my last job, I started working full time on my consulting business while applying for jobs as a product manager. I also started posting more on LinkedIn and Twitter (X) as a way to engage with the product management community. I’ve been following Dan Koe and Sean McCabe (formerly…

  • Twitter Ads: My Experiment and the Results

    How Much Does a New Follower Cost on Twitter? That’s what I wanted to find out. I’d never ran a Twitter ad before. You can run ads for more than just new followers, you can also do it to drive more engagement (retweets, favorites, and clicks). I wanted to experiment with gaining new followers. I’d…

  • What Happened to the Color App?

    Why Did Instagram Succeed When the Color App Failed? We hope you’ve enjoyed sharing your stories via real-time video. Regretfully, the [Color] app will no longer be available after 12/31/2012. That was the message posted on Color.com [Update 7/15/2003: The site is no longer up.], the domain Color Labs paid $350,000 to acquire in 2011…

  • Big Data in a Small Shop

    Four ways to react to client insights So, if you have read any business journal, blog, or magazine in the last year you’ve heard ad-naseum about the power of Big Data. Combing through the digital exhaust that all consumers produce to better understand their preferences and habits can produce big dividends to big companies who…

  • Seesmic VS Path

    A friend of mine recently started testing two social media tools, Seesmic and Path. Here is what he discovered: I would recommend Seesmic. It currently is free only because it is in beta. It will be a pay service when it comes out of beta. Pros: -Can post to multiple social media outlets at once…

  • Facebook Book Printing Companies Review and Analysis

    Back in June, Mashable wrote an article on 7 Facebook book printing companies. As Christmas is now approaching I remembered that article and wondered if any of the companies let you print other people’s Facebook walls. Not everyone wants a book about themselves for themself, but if someone else gives it to them – hey,…

  • What Meetups Mean to Me

    In January of 2005 I started my first Meetup called Indy Game Dev. One person joined and together we started to code a game. I didn’t know how to code a game. I had just graduated college with some Computer Science classes where I had to make a few small games in Visual Basic.NET, but…

  • Backlink Bookmarks

    This is a list of sites I use to backlink from for myself and my web design, SEO, and social media marketing clients: Social Bookmarking Sites BibSonomy BlinkList Connotea Delicious Digg Diigo Fark – moderated Folkd Mister Wong Mixx – currently undergoing some changes Netvouz Reddit – moderated, but very effective StumbleUpon – can be very effective Tagza…

  • The Gig Economy

    We went from trading mp3s with Napster to trading cash with Paypal to trading actual work for goods. Brace yourself. The barter economy is back. Gigwalkers, Runners, and Giggers in the Cloud You can now pay for anybody to do almost anything, anywhere, at any time. From gig walkers at Gigwalk, to runners at Taskrabbit,…