The best single malt I have ever had

The other day one of my brand new clients - send me a bottle of single malt - and the sweetest thank you letter. Only one month into our cooperation. And only in my second month of business with crone & co at all. Could there be a better time for just that. I am so thankful - since it really fuels my energy - to believe in what I am doing.

Paul Smiths brain on pages

I fell over this amusing book the other day by Paul Smith: "You can find inspiration in everything. If you can´t look again".
You don´t even have to read it - to like it. I didn´t knew that I was a fan of Paul Smith. But I am. It´s an exciting insight into his life, his thinking, his designs, his career..... I haven´t read it through yet. But go and buy it for what ever reason. Fan of Paul, design, customization, design, creativity, innovation...... or?

N.Y. Man to Use Tattoos As Advertisements

Talk about new media - live experiences !!
New York Man Agrees to Have Advertisements Permanently Tattooed on His Body.
Read this: http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=453128

Timbuk2.com - enjoy customizing your own bag

Customize your own bag and buy it online. Great customer experience. Fun bags from the streets of San Francisco. I had to buy one for myself and my daughter.

Build your own bag: http://www.timbuk2.com/tb2/byob.t2

Man Takes Out Ad to Win Wife Back.

It´s all about emotions!
Ain´t it just a sweet example on how talking straight from the heart - works. No surprise - but often forgotten. True, authentic and honest communication.
That´s the road to follow in both personal and professional communication. It works, it´s catchy. Just read people´s reactions. Sure we don´t know if it ends out with a reunion. But I would be surprised if it doesn´t. No matter. He certainly had his message heard.
Read the story: http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=443483
Unfortunately there´s no picture of the ad.

Mac mini! Take a look a this one!

I am a totally PC person - but I am geeting more and more in to them Mac.s - take a look at the latest and greatest from Apple. It´s really tempting to buy one.


Mac Mini

10 years with the Internet

Being in Microsoft 10 years ago - I remember how 1995 (end of 1995) was the year when Gates decided to go for the net - and shifted the whole Microsoft strategy towards an online strategy, and the great browser war, and generally the world wide web euphoria, started. It is quite funny to recall my first contact with the net. Actually I was the first in Microsoft Denmark to get an internet connection. Crazy - but true. Well okay we where only 20-25 persons in Microsoft DK at that time. Also somewhat almost unbeliveable today - but true.

I remember how I really didn´t know what to do with that internet connection - and all the techies - where jumping around to use my connection. However I was the marketing guy - getting the job to publish Microsoft Denmark on the net. Establishing Microsoft DKs homepage. I remember how you just got totally frustrated and confused by clicking around and searching on the net was a vast of impossible, unusable, ridicolous links to all kind of useless and of course sometimes - as if by luck - useful information. It was really chaotic. And then today - see how everyone uses it. How I feel old ..... internet times old - .....talking about these things. Which today seems so obvious as using the tap in the kitchen to get a glass of water. Today I wouldn´t live without it. In 1995/96/97 it was all about getting a company homepage - and every ad for any company focused on www.company.com announcements - and nobody really knew what to do with it - when they first had it. Really funny. Quite bizar - just less than 10 years ago. Just look at it today! Amazing times. Amazing technology.

Starting up

The dream has come true. Starting up my own company. After so many years being employed - it is indeed a really weird experience at first. But then again - I am finally here. I started my own. Not that I am the first on Earth to do that - but to me it is big.

And then only to realise that one of the biggest change really is the shift of company name, email and phone numbers (of course there´s a lot of practicalities to solve too). The challenges needed to be solved for the clients are no different than before. But the motivation and the eager somewhat and naturally even higher.

Crone&Co. is a reality - couldn´t figure out what else to call it :-). And people tells me this sounds okay. So well..... croneandco it is. Working on all the details soon there will be a website croneandco.com.

New adventure

Well then - now it is all set. I am settling for a new adventure. Starting up a new venture of my own. Exciting times - tipping point times :-). I am so impressed by all you good hearts out there - who suddenly where there when I needed you and has indeed helped me and still will in this transition period. I am so thankful.

Tipping Point

A silly reflection on coinsidences. As I am reaching a significant tipping point in my career - I am by coinsidence reading a book with exactly that title: "The Tipping Point". Quite exciting read on how viruses and epidemics spread - written in a marketing context. Well somehow a completely different tipping point than my personal one - and somehow actually not - depends on the eyes that see. But more on that as it "spreads" :-)....the virus I mean :-)
Ambiguity indeed. I know.....