So this is a promise to take your mask off and share who you are and what you have done ? Looking forward to it, I still say you are a player
Don't be a joker. No "player" would do something like this. Only those that have nothing to lose are free to gain.
But most importantly I won't be talking like I do here. Nor about what I do discuss here. I believe in "what happens in domain industry, stays in domain industry". My blog will be more like Sahar's. I will attempt to talk generally about the state of the affairs in world's online media, and in the process educate the "uninitiated masses" about the power of creativity in all that. All that with a little (lemon) twist.
But that doesn't mean I am a dummy, or that I don't know what I am talking about. Yes, I know a digital media future when I see one
And I only have a graduate degree in Semiotics (for those that don't know what that is, google or wiki it) from one of the world's better universities. So if anything that should provide some thing to the table.
Unrelated to that, you know in my last media corporate life (multibillion company) I was often the brightest bulb in the room (idea wise, and certain experience wise). I gave my company more value than they could ever give me. Yet, when I gave my notice they cared less. They didn't twist my arm to stay with them. They gave that old corporate attitude that everything is replacable. Yes, everything is replacable, but at what cost? Oh the segment of company X doesn't appear to be as bright as it was with Sasquatch. Yawn. Never mind the money down the drain, there always is more money, whether it's a bit less, or a bit more don't matter. In fact a lot more doesn't matter to them. In my second last corporate position (also in a huge media company) one day I was sitting at my ready for a bg media gig, and in walks my boss asking where's the guy that usually was sitting next/near me. When I told him he stepped out to grab something to eat he gave me a sheepish grin and replied quite honestly: "Oh, ok, as long as there's a warm body there, I am ok with it". Let me repeat this for a second "As long as there's awarm body there" - he said. A "warm body". A warm freaking body, is how dedicated smart employees in the America all over are described these days. It's the nature of the beast. It's comparable to what I was saying earlier about the customer service of multibillion retail companies.
They just don't care.
Even the lesser companies don't care.
Even in domain industries companies don't care.
Look at the Moniker, or Sedo. They often never return your inquiry, let alone else you may need. Are they shortstaffed, or swamped? Perhaps, but I don't care. Kick some ass around. Invent strict policies, strict professional codes, hire more people, pay people a little better, provide them with gifts (token ones or meanigful ones) when they do well. Make them care about your own company. Do something about the status quo (Sedo) that makes you a joke noe, after you were an undsiputed leader few years ago! Just because your leaders sold out/cashed out their options, doesn't mean you should stop caring! Read this and learn NAMEMEDIA!
You know what I'd do for companies like this? Wonders! Just give me a mid-level title, give me some decent base pay and a performance based incentives, along a "room to do do my business". And I'll turn you around in no time, whether with my stellar ideas (to be humble here) or with my managerial skills. But you know what? They won't do it. They don't care. Such ideas don't even cross their minds. And I don't mean about me (not that I'd do this anyway, I swore off of working for anyone else long ago), but about anyone else. They don't think in those terms. They believe they are not in people business, they are in Zombie business. And that is in domain industry alone. Industry that is supposed to educate other on the values of... whatever.
Anyway, back to blog.
Somebody on this thread told me along the lines that all you need to do is to appear to know your shit. That happens to be the first lesson in my class. It's the perception that counts, isn't it?