Feb
24
Photo Shoot Tips: How to Improve Your Project
Posted by Dan Williams at 5:09 pm | Filed In Smart, Strategic, Technical | Add a Comment
In the past few months, the TricomB2B team has been conducting product photography shoots for various clients. Through the process, I have created a photography checklist to use as a guide to help manage jobs and to develop additional ideas.
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Feb
20
The Cranky Communicator: The Lost Art
Posted by Jack Lilienthal at 12:27 pm | Filed In Smart | Add a Comment
I have contempt for absolutely everyone in marketing and advertising who claims to be adroit in the art of written communications. Almost without exception, the work of these langorous nitwits is more akin to the affliction of vitiligo than to clear, compelling prose. At their best, their writing is pedestrian… most often, it is dreadfully prosaic.
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Feb
16
Who Are Your Customers?
Posted by Erin Paulson at 4:51 pm | Filed In Smart | Add a Comment
I had a conversation this morning with my 4 1/2-year-old son, Jack, that will certainly sound familiar to any working parent. Every work day, we talk over breakfast about the schedule for the day - where mommy is going to be, where daddy is going to be, if Jack has school or a playdate, etc. He asked me when Daddy would get home, and I said a little later than usual - after Jack was asleep. Jack responded, “Does he have to take a customer out?” To which I asked him, “What do you think a customer is?” And he answered, “A customer is very special and it is like when we have a guest at our house. I have to play what they want to play, and share my toys and be nice.” Apparently, we are raising a future entrepreneur.
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Feb
10
Social Media and B2B
Posted by Chris Eifert at 2:11 pm | Filed In Smart, Special, Strategic | 2 Comments
A few weeks ago, TriComB2B sent an email invite to participate in a Social Media survey. We have been reading and learning about social media for the last year, and wanted to know what our audience thought about it. Those invited to participate are B2B decision makers and influencers in the technical or industrial world. The response was pretty good — more than 20 percent of the recipients completed the survey. Might have had something to do with the drawing for an iPod touch …
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Feb
4
PHP Error Reporting
Posted by Jesse Gifford at 5:25 pm | Filed In Smart, Strategic, Technical | Add a Comment
Troubleshooting PHP and the Elusive Missing Curly Brace
I’ve been working on a project that involves some fairly complex PHP code. The code creates an HTML form based on values inserted in the database. Getting the form to display was fairly simple, but getting the results to be inserted back into the database proved to be a much more complex task. I had several parts of the insert working correctly, but the last step was just not working. Whenever I tested the page, all I got was a blank screen. In PHP this usually means there is some syntax error, such as a missing semicolon or of course the elusive missing curly brace.
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