{"id":7411,"date":"2008-11-18T09:53:21","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T09:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/what_the_new_yahoo_ceo_needs_to_do.html"},"modified":"2008-11-18T09:53:21","modified_gmt":"2008-11-18T09:53:21","slug":"what-the-new-yahoo-ceo-needs-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/financial\/what-the-new-yahoo-ceo-needs-to-do.html","title":{"rendered":"What the New Yahoo CEO Needs to Do"},"content":{"rendered":"

With financial markets in turmoil and Jerry Yang being responsible for more or less botching the Microsoft deal, it is obvious he needs to step down<\/a>. The only question is why did it take so long? Here are thoughts on the new CEO Position and what has to happen:<\/p>\n

1)      <\/span><\/span><\/span>She\/He has to be from an entrepreneurial new media company<\/p>\n

a.       <\/span><\/span><\/span>If you hire someone well-known from the go-go days of the nineties – with no small company experience, Yahoo will continue to fail<\/p>\n

b.      <\/span><\/span><\/span>Google is competitor #1 and acts like a small company<\/p>\n

                                                               <\/span>i.      <\/span><\/span><\/span>There is no other way to compete with them<\/p>\n

c.       <\/span><\/span><\/span>Find a person who has seen business transform as a result of the web. Someone dynamic and able to change quickly<\/p>\n

2)      <\/span><\/span><\/span>Speed: make this the number one imperative throughout the organization<\/p>\n

a.       <\/span><\/span><\/span>Roll out new products and services as fast as possible<\/p>\n

3)      <\/span><\/span><\/span>Mobile<\/p>\n

a.       <\/span><\/span><\/span>There needs to be a renewed focus on mobile browsing and search<\/p>\n

b.      <\/span><\/span><\/span>Ink deals with every carrier you can while you can<\/p>\n

c.       <\/span><\/span><\/span>Be everywhere<\/p>\n

4)      <\/span><\/span><\/span>Promote yourself<\/p>\n

a.       <\/span><\/span><\/span>Mail, sports, news, finance – there are just so many areas where Yahoo is a leader<\/p>\n

                                                               <\/span>i.      <\/span><\/span><\/span>Why not promote this fact?<\/p>\n

                                                             <\/span>ii.      <\/span><\/span><\/span>Tell advertisers how great your company is<\/p>\n

5)      <\/span><\/span><\/span>Brag<\/p>\n

a.       <\/span><\/span><\/span>Yahoo is so understated I felt that #4 on its own would not do the trick<\/p>\n

                                                               <\/span>i.      <\/span><\/span><\/span>The company needs to be vociferous<\/p>\n

                                                             <\/span>ii.      <\/span><\/span><\/span>Remind us why we use and love Yahoo<\/p>\n

                                                            <\/span>iii.      <\/span><\/span><\/span>Throw traffic numbers around<\/p>\n

6)      <\/span><\/span><\/span>Act like the underdog you are<\/p>\n

a.       <\/span><\/span><\/span>Yahoo’s culture is one of a market leader<\/p>\n

b.      <\/span><\/span><\/span>While this is true in many sectors, customers and Wall Street don’t see it this way<\/p>\n

c.       <\/span><\/span><\/span>Become entrepreneurial<\/p>\n

d.      <\/span><\/span><\/span>Hire new people as needed to make this happen<\/p>\n

e.      <\/span><\/span><\/span>Get leaner<\/p>\n

f.        <\/span><\/span><\/span>Get meaner<\/p>\n

7)      <\/span><\/span><\/span>Push the toolbar<\/p>\n

a.       <\/span><\/span><\/span>The Yahoo Toolbar has access to so much rich Yahoo content<\/p>\n

b.      <\/span><\/span><\/span>Go on the offensive with the toolbar<\/p>\n

c.&#160
\n;      <\/span><\/span><\/span>Give the toolbar access to the best content from around the web – ESPN, CNN, etc<\/p>\n

d.      <\/span><\/span><\/span>Make it difficult for users to ignore the toolbar and get them to adopt it and likewise build search volume<\/p>\n

8)      <\/span><\/span><\/span>Copy Google<\/p>\n

a.       <\/span><\/span><\/span>Obviously it is good to be innovative but on occasion it makes sense to “borrow” ideas<\/p>\n

b.      <\/span><\/span><\/span>Give developers some free time to work on pet projects just Like Google<\/p>\n

c.       <\/span><\/span><\/span>Yahoo has so much potential to push new services to an entrenched audience<\/p>\n

d.      <\/span><\/span><\/span>They just need to roll out more and more of them at a faster clip<\/p>\n

e.      <\/span><\/span><\/span>This could even cut development cost<\/p>\n

f.        <\/span><\/span><\/span>Put relevant ads in Yahoo Mail. Why would you not do this?<\/p>\n

There are just so many ways to maximize revenue at Yahoo and it is bewildering that this internet legend is still struggling. I truly wish them well but they better find someone quick to get this steamship turned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With financial markets in turmoil and Jerry Yang being responsible for more or less botching the Microsoft deal, it is obvious he needs to step down. The only question is why did it take so long? Here are thoughts on the new CEO Position and what has to happen: 1)      She\/He has to be from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162,163,1677,188,1675],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7411"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}