Happy Links
July 12, 2005 in Happy Links- Tom Peters interviews Jason Fried of 37Signals (Basecamp) fame. Zoinks Jason, talk about "arriving." When Tom Peters interviews you, you're official. Good long interview, great questions.
- Dave Shea over at Mezzoblue offers some taxation tips for Canadian entrepreneurs doing business with the US. "Live in Canada? Run a small web design studio or development business? Looking to work with a company based in the US? Got hit with IRS paperwork? There’s good news."
- NYT rakes our hero Jeff Bezos over the coals. Some thought provoking ideas here. They quote Mark R. Anderson who promotes the tired notion that Jeff should step aside and let a "real" CEO take over. (FWIW I understand where this thinking comes from (knee jerk conventional wisdom) but I think it's ridiculous in this case.)
- Duct Tape Marketing offers a common sense reminder about calls to action on your website.
"Your sales message should inspire your reader to act by telling them to take the next step. But, you must give them one darn good motivation for doing it." - An article comparing wage practices of Wal-Mart and Costco.