Advice for 2011? Stop talking about your next big thing and just do it.

Have a new Windows Phone?  Here's a simple calculator I wrote that tells you how much things cost you in time.  It's free.  Get it now (and leave a great review).  Thanks.

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Netflix is joining the Standard & Poor's 500 index.  Wedbush Securities feels they're over valued and puts their 12-month price target at $78 per share.  The stock closed today at $194.  Ouch.  I don't agree with the $78 price target, but do think they are overvalued.  Regardless, they will continue to get my $20 per month -- even if their streaming licenses are reduced to 'I Love Lucy' and 'Perry Mason'.  I'm a fan.

Ironically, while Netflix continues to transform digital media two of the three companies that got the boot from the S&P (The New York Times Co. and Eastman Kodak) have been disrupted by it.

Fish sandwich, fries and a peanut butter and chocolate shake from Kidd Valley for lunch today.  I should feel ashamed.  I don't.  It was great!

Sony Creative Software sent me this in the mail.  The postage costs $1.05.  It contained a packing list (that read "ad insert") and a flyer.  They could have sent this as a postcard or just emailed me (I've opted-in to their newsletter).  Regardless, this doesn't make sense.  I'm guessing this was a break down in process and intentional.  I hope so.

Presidential Chia Pets. Supposedly they did a 500K production run on these things.  Wow.

But most of the time it does.  Take this Adobe ad for instance.  Become a wizard?  Really?  Yeah, I get it.  The Acrobat logo looks like a wizard's hat.  Still not working for me.  I know a lot of you commerical marketers want cool consumer-like campaigns.  Please stop that.  Your brand can become more approachable, personable and genuine without pretending to be cool, hip or funny.  Even if you land the cool/hip/funny stuff you might just end up with more attention, but not more sales.  Last time I checked, most of us where in business for the latter.

Get access to classic luxury and super cars on a partial ownership basis.  The Classic Car Club offers annual memberships starting at $8K for 35 days of driving and access to over 40 cars.  This is a pretty good deal considering you could pay $7,500 for an oil change on a Ferrari.  P1 International offers a similar service.

StorageByMail offers an interesting service for people looking to store their stuff.  How does it work?  You send your stuff through the mail (USPS) to the company's central warehouse and they store it for you.  It doesn't look that affordable on the surface.  However, when you load in the full costs for alternatives like self-storage and the price isn't bad.  Good option for people who need to store a small amount of stuff for a short period of time.

http://www.storagebymail.com/