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Comment on Today in Tech: Which actor will play Steve Jobs? by Raymond Heiro

Raymond Heiro — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 21:05:52 +0000

I can not determine how do I subscribe to your blog

Comment on Build a Wooden Floor Mat by reclaimed wood coffee table

reclaimed wood coffee table — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:06:09 +0000

Would it be possible to get a review unit ?

Comment on Tim Tebow Girlfriend by Everybody is STILL Talking About Tim Tebow | Sports News from Duseyworld

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:55:26 +0000

[...] Everybody has something to say about Tim Tebow. We want to know who he is dating, where he is living, and if he has a chance to challenge Mark Sanchez for the starting spot. Even my buddy Scott has something to say about who Tim Tebow is dating. [...]

Comment on Google Drive leaked screenshots show up to 5GB free storage by paras

paras — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 06:54:05 +0000

What is the unique proposition google brings with gdrive. May be facebook will also launch fdrive.

Comment on Facebook moving to Sun campus in Menlo Park by Mark Zuckerberg Helped David Choe Paint Mural | Bob and Scott

Mark Zuckerberg Helped David Choe Paint Mural | Bob and Scott — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:07:22 +0000

[...] Choe was hired to paint murals in the original Facebook offices (they have since move to a new Facebook Campus). Rather than taking cash for his efforts, Choe decided to let his artist brain decide and took [...]

Comment on The Cruelest April Fool’s Day Prank EVER! by Scooter

Scooter — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:08:43 +0000

I agree…This could be the cruelest April Fools Joke of all time. I saw a video where a bunch of guys really went to great lengths to pull this off.
Their slant was to tape the previous night’s newscast where the lotto numbers where read. The next morning, they went out and bought tickets and gave each person in the room a ticket with the one ticket having the same numbers as the winning ticket the night before. Later, they all gathered around the tv as the tape played the previous night’s newscast. They all acted out having a loser ticket leaving the one guy watching as each number revealed brought him closer to a winning ticket. When he won, he went loony. I was hilarious. The video shows them finally telling him it was a prank and the look on the guys face is brutal.

Comment on Are You Rooting For Tiger Woods? by BobL

BobL — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 02:21:28 +0000

I am rooting for Tiger Woods. I don’t know why, but I have to watch when Woods is in contention. By watch, I mean DVR and fast-forward. McDowell is pretty steady. He has beat woods in the past and he is playing well enough to do it again.

Everyone loves a comeback.

Comment on March Newsstand Issue of Fortune Magazine – Catherine Hooper by Newt Gingrich and fake twitter followers | Bob and Scott

Newt Gingrich and fake twitter followers | Bob and Scott — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:11:08 +0000

[...] people who just want to pump themselves or a website. WRONG. Recently, however, we did a post on Catherine Hooper. She actually replied (didn’t expect that) and gave a meaningful comment. That comment has [...]

Comment on March Newsstand Issue of Fortune Magazine – Catherine Hooper by Scooter

Scooter — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:28:03 +0000

Catherine,
I appreciate the compliment about our blog and although you didn’t have to respond, I’m glad you did. This is the kind of honest back and forth that is great for small business and the kind of insight that small businesses crave. There should be a way where a blog/website can be objective and those affected by the article can give mature and professional feedback. Very cool.

Sounds like you’re getting some free publicity. Sounds like you’re also fighting for a bunch of it…just like the rest of us!

Good luck with BlackUmbrella.com and we probably have more in common that you will ever know.

Comment on March Newsstand Issue of Fortune Magazine – Catherine Hooper by Catherine Hooper

Catherine Hooper — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:34:20 +0000

Dear Bob and Scott:

First, let me say: thank you for the free publicity. It’s a great post and your opinions are far more thoughtful than most of the news media. But I’m not writing exclusively to thank you – I’m also writing to answer some of your questions and to make you feel a little bit better.

The story came about after Pattie Sellers, a very distinguished writer at Fortune, saw me and Andrew on 60 Minutes. Pattie specializing in writing about businesswomen, and runs Fortune’s Most Powerful Women franchise. She didn’t have much interest in the Madoff story, but she is interested in how people, especially women, run businesses under extraordinary circumstances. Pattie emailed me directly to see if I would talk to her. The free advice a friend’s PR agent was not to work with Fortune, as it would be “just another Madoff story.”

Despite the advice, I met Pattie and we had an instant connection. Over the course of the next few months, she had the opportunity to visit me at my office and home and shadow my daily movements. You are totally right to notice that the title of the article is intended to bring in people who think it’s about Bernie Madoff. In working with Pattie, her focus was always on me and Black Umbrella. (If it had been otherwise, I wouldn’t have worked with her.) But, as you know, Pattie has an editor and magazines need to make money – hence the Madoff headline.

So why did she chose to write about a very small business? For one thing, I started not only a new business, but also an entirely new industry, saddled with all of the baggage that comes from Andrew’s last name. That I have any clients at all is a victory. For another thing, Black Umbrella is on track to more than double last year’s revenue this year, and Pattie was able to learn (on background) something about the nature of our private and corporate clients. I’m grateful to have them, and they are the same companies and individuals that Fortune likes to write about – minus a smarmy headline.

All that aside, I want to let you know the real value of publicity like this. It’s not what you expect. I have been profiled on the cover of the Metro section and nationally in the New York Times (resulting in a dozen clients over the course of the next four months), been profiled in People, Redbook, Marie Claire, (less than a dozen clients), and provided expert commentary on preparedness to CBS Moneywatch and Today.com (less than a dozen clients). Most of my business still comes from word of mouth, networking, and hustle. The Fortune article has been brought some new corporate clients my way, and I’m incredibly grateful. But please don’t think that if Fortune writes about you, your struggle is over. It’s never that easy, though as much as we both wish it was.

Your blog is very, very funny and opinionated and I will certainly continue to follow it. And take some comfort in knowing that when Fortune writes about you, it will be with YOUR name in the title of the article. Best in everything you do and feel free to write me back at catherine@blackumbrella.com.