Jeff Lesser - Latest Comments

Re: Kidrobot.com E-commerce Enhancement Ideas

Consumer Reviews — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:30:01 -0000

Wow really great points for who are newly launch their website. These are the key points and every webmaster should execute this for a starting level.

Re: A Slight Change In Daily Activities

Ecommerce Developer — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 05:03:19 -0000

The blog was absolutely fantastic! Lot of great information which can be helpful in some or the other way. Keep updating the blog,looking forward for more contents...Great job, keep it up..

Re: A Slight Change In Daily Activities

Randall — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 20:07:39 -0000

Jeff,

It has truly been a pleasure to watch you develop as a professional and I expect nothing short of greatness from you in your new adventures. I will proudly be following your success and growth and am confident you will shine bright at graphic.ly. Your drive, creativity, and intelligence will surely be missed. I am always available to brainstorm and assist in the future.

Founder and CEO "The Head Nerd" at Giantnerd

Re: A Slight Change In Daily Activities

Christopher Reinhard — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 19:13:05 -0000

Godspeed, young man.

Re: http://www.jefflesser.com/post/4100172598

Chelsea — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 01:11:14 -0000

By a short stranger, they mean me. And by blessings, they mean the $500 I'm going to win us. And by share, they mean $25.

Re: http://www.jefflesser.com/post/1164824133

Brian — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 09:18:32 -0000

Sorry for getting up in everyone's grill !! One of the best events I've filmed ... everyone seems so damn happy to be there, which is definitely not always the case.

Re: http://www.jefflesser.com/post/1692121962

Jeff Lesser — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 16:53:12 -0000

If they were really not hiding it they would have made that the title of the landing page instead of "Four Days Only - Up To 50% Off." Also, "Loss Leader" isn't a term you want to show customers even when you are being transparent because it is jargon and many people won't understand it.

Also, the "our loss is your gain" marketing message is played out in my opinion, from a company that has a large and creative staff you hope that they could come up with something more clever and effective.

Backcountry.com are known for being amazing marketers, this in my opinion, is more like the work of amateurs.

Re: http://www.jefflesser.com/post/1692121962

AltaisforSkiers — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 15:42:11 -0000

Or perhaps backcountry.com calls it like they see and don't have to hide it from their customers. I have gotten emails from them that say "Indulge on our losses." Just saying.

Re: http://www.jefflesser.com/post/712316627

Mark Castator — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 12:59:13 -0000

Some dads are Soccer Moms. I was lucky enough to raise a skateboarder.

Re: http://www.jefflesser.com/post/835041896

Lawrencemlesser — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 18:13:54 -0000

This picture is a fake!

Re: The Problem With “Who Moved My Cheese?”

Sarah E. Welch — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 22:35:08 -0000

Agreed. A friend loaned me the audio book a few years ago. A yelled at it. A lot.

Re: The real value of social media has been squelched

neoliberaldinos — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:54:09 -0000

Jeff,
I think that although there are some worthwhile ideas here, you are doing exactly what you seem to critique in the blogpost. "But I will tell you what it actually used for; complaining, whining, gloating, and telling people things they don’t care about."...I think this is a thought many people have had. It's like, who cares if, instead of finding a worm in your apple, you found a pick used by Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock by the sheer miracle of GMOs...blah etc.

If this blog isn't a self-indicting statement in the sense that you have made your argument in such a way as to crush it, as one might fold the Bill of Rights up into a triangle and set it afire, then I think Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobain really were related...and in fact, they probably actually killed each other when a space-time flux distorted, well, everything.
The point is, you are doing exactly what you deride in your post. People bitching, whining, etc. for the sake of self-aggrandizement and potential recognition.
While you may think that everyone else is somehow missing the point with social media/networking, and you may well be right, you seem to think that you have the point sharpened down to such a degree that you could perform a Face/Off type-deal with it...let's face it, ALL of us know you don't have the technology or the steady hands to pull off a procedure like that. ;)
From a simple perspective, a few of the ideas you posit, e.g. "...people can't get over themselves", "self-absorbed dribble, even if it is witty dribble (in reference to status updates)...But hey, we can’t all be marketers", seem to me to be just what you point out as the flaws in others.
Let's start with the latter. My assumption is that your reference to marketing is a jab at everyone who isn't well-versed in marketing tactics/strategies. Actually it should be pretty apparent to everyone who reads your post that it is more than a barbed, egotistical comment masked in an attempt to demean facebook users who don't use their status updates to market their own blogs, websites, and other forms of ego-boosting pseudo-action.
I realize that one possible reaction from anyone, whether they be the nodes that hold the blogoface together, or someone who only checks facebook when their friends are on their accounts, is that people are self-centered, selfish, and all-too caught up in their petty problems that mean very little to the rest of the planet. But for someone who is so involved in social media, marketing and might tear a new orifice in anyone who questioned the merits and potential "real value of social media", it is surprising that you just came to this conclusion.
I mean, really? Facebook users have been altering their profile pictures in various ways since I became a "user" ca.2006. The doppelganger theme week is just another iteration of that phenomenon, albeit a seemingly somewhat more important iteration. In the last paragraph of the post, you insinuate that other users are at fault because they led you to be disappointed when you realized they hadn't undergone any form of cosmetic surgery (ostensibly in order to look more like Natalie Portman haha). If that statement is a misreading of your post please let us know...
I'm tired of typing at this point. I share some of the same thoughts you typed out in this post. I think the approach you took was pretty over the top and hypocritical. I think it's hard for anyone to not, at least once in a while, get caught up in the petty day-to-day events and reactions to them. Your observation that a lot of fb status updates are "self-centered" makes sense to me. The idea that people "can't", by which you imply ARE NOT CAPABLE, "get over themselves" is preposterous. Where does this gross generalization and critique of "people" come from. I'm guessing it came from you.

That these facebook "users" are mere electronic representations of real people, at least in most cases, is only one piece of many that could lead one to a greater understanding of how and why people represent themselves the ways they do.
That such an indictment of people in general could be based on one person's perception of the self-involvement of the facebook population is hard to swallow. TBC...

Re: Jeff Lesser, Hey Dad! This is for you! I know you read this...

Dad — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 09:13:43 -0000

How could I ever forget the Mars Volta experience!!