Warren Buffett, Obama, The Banks, And You

Warren Buffett, the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway on Fox Business News today said that he does not agree with Obama’s New Proposed Regulations on Banks placing Government Regulations on risk.   He said that he felt it was the individual’s CEO’s and even their wives responsibility to manage risk.

He said that if there are failures, that the CEO’s should have to pay for failing to manage those risks. He also went on to say that by implementing such regulations, there there are often unintended consequences.

And those consequences may already be happening as Banking stocks have tanked today and JP. Morgan and others may be getting rid of their banking divisions. —–> READ MORE

Tags: Banking, Berkshire Hathaway, Obama, Warren Bugges

Coke Got It!  YEAAAAA.   Coke finally got it and changed their website design.

After half a dozen emails, and a bunch of blog posts,they finally got the message. They are also going to lose their Darwin Dodo Design Award that I gave to them last month as well. It is a good thing. I am glad that they finally changed their Website.

There are some great lessons to learn from this story.  Watch the video and you see what I am talking about.

They went from this…

to this…

Don’t you think it looks better?

Tags: Berkshire Hathaway, Coke, Lessons, Warren Buffett

Coke Gets First Ever 21to21.com Darwin Website

Design Dodo Award

Coke-Cola’s main Website has won the first ever Darwin Website Design Dodo Award ™ for their design of www.Coke.com .

This award is handed out for Website designs that show the best of why Dodo’s are now extinct and only live on in books and stuffed in Museums.   These designs have no branches in their family tree of design and are perhaps best represented by a stick.

The reason why Coke has received the first design award is because of what I thought was a mistake, but Coke’s PR department proceeded to send the following email:

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Hi Anderson,

Hope that you are well.

I’ve confirmed there is not an error on the web page, it was an intentional stylistic design decision.

Have a great afternoon.

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I ended up contacting both Coke and Berkshire Hathaway which is Warren Buffett’s Company which is Coke’s largest stockholder.

The Darwin Website Design Dodo award is not given to necessarily to honest mistakes or even ugly designs, but for those designs that defy common sense.  In this case, they have consciously covered up part of a Logo that could arguably be said to be worth Billions based on whimsy or someone actually not catching it.  For this, Coke’s Website Designers receive the soon to be coveted Darwin Website Design Dodo Award for  a Website.

Here is a picture of it. You be the judge…                  Click on the Image to see it full size.

You can go here to see the Coke Website Design Live for yourself.

The reason why I feel qualified to hand out this design Award is that I myself have designed some pretty darn ugly and bad designs and this will help remind me and others, perhaps even you, not to do these types of things on a Website.

If you have other designs that you would like to submit, please make a comment below.  I am thinking about awarding a Darwin Website Design Dodo Award on an as needed basis, perhaps even Monthly.

Would love to hear your thoughts…

Cheers,

Anderson

PS  I have to say that the PR people at both Coke and Berkshire Hathaway were very nice and helpful.  I never did speak with the Website designer at Coke though.  Would like to know what was running through their mind when they did this wouldn’t you?

Coke and Coke-Cola are registered trademarks of  The Coca-Cola Company

Tags: Berkshire Hathaway, Coca-cola, Coke, Dariwn Website Design Award

Werror Day 6

Day 6 of the werror (web error) on the main page over at Coke.  No call from Warren Buffet or email from him either and the same goes for Coke.

Might see if I can get through the switchboard at Coke or at Berkshire Hathaway if I have the time but we have a launch coming up and that is in rather short supply.  Definitely a lesson for us all. 

Also I will post another really good free tool to help you avoid things exactly like this on your own site and how to have a much more profitable website.  I also  explain why I wrote that sentence exactly the way I did.

Here is a hint…. how would you like me to show you where to gain an audience as large as your current one that I can almost with 100% certainty say that you nor no one else is targeting at all no matter what niche you are in?

I kid you not… kind of a mind blowing marketing mega secret that I have decided to share with you soon.

Cheers,

Anderson

Tags: Berkshire Hathaway, Coke, New Client Base, Warren Buffet, Werror

2 days and counting on the Coke boo boo on their main Website …  About 4:30 PM EST and the logo is still partially covered by their tool bar.  Go see for yourself at www.Coke.com .  Do you think it will be fixed by Monday?  I actually sent an email off to Warren Buffet at Berkshire Hathaway just for giggles letting them know about it.   Warren Buffet is Coke’s largest stockholders.

Here is a live shot of the Coca-Cola Website so you can see if it has been fixed yet.  Come on guys, I am rooting for you, you can fix your site!

Talk about a lean and mean website.  Take a look at Berkshire Hathaway’s site.  Wow, talk about minimalist and saving money on fancy designs.  But guess what?  It works…

Click on image to see full size

Back to the Coke issue.  I actually think it is kind of funny.  But, I don’t want to laugh too hard, as like I said it could happen to any one of us too and I have done things at least  as obvious before myself.

The Profit Tip Of The Day Is

“Remember to check your site for errors on a daily basis!”

I will check tomorrow and see if they have fixed it.

In other news, I have been using an interesting new tool to help keep me organized that is working wonders.  It is an easy way for you to instantly find information from virtually anywhere at anytime.

Will post about it over the weekend.

Hope you have a relaxing and profitable weekend which brings up another point.  If you are like me and have a web based business, you can be earning money while you are relaxing.

In the coming weeks I am going to show the quickest, easiest, most efficient way you can do exactly that and the only skill set you need is to have the ability to go on the web and read this blog.

Cheers,

Andrew

PS   In response to a couple of readers, I promise to at least use spell check and read what I write one time before I post to catch any glaring errors.

Tags: Berkshire Hathaway, Coke, Profit Consultant, Warren Buffet, Web BooBoos, Website Profit