The Web, e-Commerce
Salesman Can't Just Give You Price List Because Here's The Thing With That
May 26, 2012From The Onion. Ever brilliant. Which is why we publish our price list on www.fornobravo.com. So you don’t have to ask. 🙂 Just click here. Or on the link at the top of every one of our web pages. Read More
Innovation, Garages and Pizza Ovens
May 26, 2012Mention the words garage and innovation, and many people will quickly conjure up visions of Hewlett, Packard, Wozniak, and Jobs. The Silicon Valley success that started in a garage is the stuff of legend—and it’s a well-earned legend. Start-up companies that built their first products in their garage, long before the even had enough money for company offices, have gone on to create some of the world’s most wonderful, and... Read More
Free Stuff
May 19, 2012Facebook went public yesterday, and there a couple of things that stood out for me. With a market capitalization of $104B, larger than both Amazon.com, and McDonalds, and 900 million users (a significant percentage of the population of the planet with access to a computer) the company has clearly been an incredible success. As an aside, from an investor’s perspective, the Facebook IPO demonstrates how important it is in today’s... Read More
Keeping It Simple
May 18, 2012I really enjoyed this posting on www.zeldman.com: web design news & information since 1995. THANK YOU for the screen shot. I was actually already aware that the type on my site is big. I designed it that way. And while I’m grateful for your kind desire to help me, I actually do know how the site looks in a browser with default settings on a desktop computer… The first thing... Read More
Where Forno Bravo is Going
May 12, 2012Tim Cook, president of Apple, back in January 2009: “We believe in the simple, not the complex. We believe that we need to own and control the primary technologies behind the products we make and participate only in markets where we can make a significant contribution.” Read More
How Do You Price a Pizza Oven?
Apr 13, 2012As a manufacturer and retailer, how do we price your products? It’s an interesting question and there are a number of different issues that come into play. As I wrote earlier, I believe that a higher degree of business transparency is an appropriate strategy in the Internet age, and it occurred to me that sharing our pricing strategy would make sense—both for us and for our customers. If you have... Read More
Why Blog
Mar 28, 2012We have a number of different ways of communicating with our community of customers, dealers, Pompeii oven builders, partners, and friends. Fornobravo.com itself is a labor of love, as much as it is a company website, and we also have the FB Forum, the Wood-Fired Newsletter, the Community Cookbook, FB FAQ, Facebook, YouTube, and we host Peter’s wonderful Pizza Quest. Why blog? My response is that I am often struck... Read More
