Marketing or IT or IT Marketing
Dealing with a Client lately made me think; as this Client has an “IT” contract with me but is continuously asking me questions that are more and more related to “Marketing”. Of course I’m nice about my answers, but I gotta say that in the back of my head I’m saying, “Gee, dude! You hired me for IT not Marketing — maybe I need to charge you more money?”
Yet, it is dawning on me more and more that many of the ‘Marketing’ questions he’s asking me are based on the technology available to him; which can arguably be more than what he’s be privy to normally due to having “me” as his IT consultant. Yet, I think we’re way too early in the new tech game for anyone, (meaning current and/or potential Clients), to recognize that there is a difference between straight IT consulting and IT Marketing consulting.
Not to mention IT Management consulting or IT Accounting consulting or …
Seems the more that IT becomes the mainstream of business, the more the IT Consultant has to know about all the other departments and how they work. hmm.. maybe I should be charging more money! 
Obama Pimped My Job!!
I knew I liked the man for a reason. Seems that even with all the adversity he’s been subjected to; Obama is a man of focus. He understands that America’s stability relies on the Small Business.
http://www.forbes.com/2009/03/17/obama-sba-loans-entrepreneurs-finance-sba.html
“$15 billion, coming from the U.S. Treasury Department, will be used to purchase securities backed by the SBA-guaranteed loans in an attempt to jump-start the secondary credit market for small businesses. Banks that offer SBA-guaranteed loans have hit a lending wall in recent months, as the secondary market is frozen, so banks can’t get the old loans off their balance sheets to free up capital for new loans.”
Google Phones Home
Seems Google is on an expansion kick this year; as they’ve just released their Google Voice service.
The Internet search giant on Thursday is announcing a service called Google Voice that assigns users a phone number that consolidates voice mails and text messages from their various phone numbers and stores them a single location that can be accessed remotely. Google Voice also lets users make phone calls over the Internet.
They can’t even predict how many people will find this a viable solution; with the Skype’s & Vonages and not to mention all the various cable companies out there offering VOIP, now.
One thing you can’t call Google is non-aggressive, that’s for sure.