Gary D. Cohen

As a parent - Watch this video

Gary — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:20:09 +0000

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This will shock and inspire you

Gary — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 04:35:22 +0000

Last year there was Paul Potts and two of his audition videos have been watched by over 42 million and 11 million people respectively on YouTube. Then this year (a few days ago in fact), Susan Boyle arrives. I challenge you not to jump to conclusions when she first appears. Susan Boyle on Britain Got Talent by [...]

Blast from 1998 - Dot Com revisited

Gary — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:01:43 +0000

Sometimes you just know

Gary — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 05:49:11 +0000

A long long time ago I can still remember how that music used to make me smile Don McLean Back in summer camp as a newly minted teenager, I met a guy who could play the guitar and sing. He was cool - and he could really play. Turns out we were distantly related and we would end [...]

Twitter explained to a 90 year old grandparent

Gary — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:26:29 +0000

Many years ago I used to train retirees at companies on how to look after their retirement plans. The lights went on for them (and me) when I started following this simple philosophy: Pretend you are explaining the concept to your 90 year old grandparent or your 6 year old child. If I took my time [...]

What I Learned This Week From You - Installment #1

Gary — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 07:25:16 +0000

When I started focusing on marketing and communications and the massive changes that were occuring a few years ago, I went from not knowing what a blog was to reading 200 blogs a day in about 6 weeks. Soon it was 300 a day and I was learning a ton and running out of hours [...]

JetBlue taps into current market sentiment

Gary — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:12:02 +0000

Definitely not targeting ex private jet travellers. Not sure what else to add.

Skittles gets it

Gary — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:36:51 +0000

My kids love skittles and so do I. In fact they love my home grown “Skittolies” even more. What are they? Frozen Skittles. I do not go skiing without skittles in my pocket and by the time we open the bag later in the day - Voila, you have frozen “Skittolies”! And the kid’s jostle [...]

Mortgage Bailout - Who is getting bailed out?

Gary — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:31:53 +0000

I have met with some pretty smart people in the last few days. Today I met with a partner at a private equity firm and a week ago I was with a fairly senior World Bank employee. The bail out was top of mind. For my private equity discussion, I was asked what I thought [...]

Back up your blog

Gary — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 06:58:20 +0000

So the last few days have been a nightmare. While moving some files around on the server, I deleted some files accidentally, and in one fell swoop my blog, my site and a whole bunch of other data and test spaces went poof. I had the blog backed up on the server - and luckily [...]