I love keeping my eye on my Twitter stream. It always amazes me to see the comments, discussions, quotes, and stories that quickly scroll down my Tweetdeck screen. This morning, one in particular grabbed my attention. It was talking about how the Medical University of South Carolina had created a “social media newsroom” to share [...]
Many of you men (and/or women!) may not agree with me, but I absolutely love to mow my lawn. It is something that I look forward to every week and almost can’t wait when the time arrives where my grass has grown to the point it needs a quick snip of the tip. I know [...]
This has been one crazy year has it not? With the economy in the bottom of the barrel, people losing jobs left and right and consumer confidence and spending down, us business owners have had one heck of a volatile year to get through (and it may not even be over this year!) We used [...]
I had the privilege of attending an event yesterday that simply blew my mind. First off let me tell you that as a business owner, I hate answering the question “What do you do?” You know that one, the one you are always asked when attending networking meetings or anytime you’re face-to-face with a potential [...]
It has always surprised me when meeting fellow entrepreneurs how many have a plan to take over the world in their areas of expertise that includes no one but themselves. Sure, in my little world of “one” I reign supreme, but attempting to press my will in the world around me will quickly land me [...]
So I’ve been thinking about what the heck I want to do with this blog. Really I’ve been thinking about what I wanted to do with this blog and I have found myself questioning why I started it in the first place? Was it for me to talk about topics that interested me? Was it [...]
A quick search on any search engine will show two schools of thought about traditional marketing media. Either 1) traditional marketing is dead, or 2) traditional marketing is not dead… yet. I would say that I’m a believer of the latter. Traditional marketing is not dead, it’s just dying.
With the rise of social media (Facebook, [...]
All of us beginning bloggers shoud take a few notes from the King of Content, Brian Clark. He founded one of the most powerful blogs on copywriting called, CopyBlogger. On that site, Brian has continuous guest bloggers who share with with their readers tips, tricks and techniques on how to write more impactful content to [...]
Now I know I might take some heat for this from my fellow marketers or zealous fans of social media, but I’m sorry, Social Media is NOT the silver bullet for marketing my business. It’s not even a bronze bullet. Frankly, it’s maybe a nickel-plated bullet in a clip full of other bullets.
Why? Because most [...]
I recently came across a study on Twitter that was conducted by Pear Analytics. It was interesting in that they wanted to find out how we all REALLY use Twitter. Their hypothesis or assumption was that Twitter was mainly used for self-promotion (those of us that want to push our wares out to the Twitterverse [...]
I started out both my professional and entrepreneurial career ten years ago with a little book called: Sam’s Learn HTML in 24 Hours (I’d recommend the 7th edition for those wanting to learn HTML/CSS). With that book began my journey into the online world with learning how to build web sites people wanted to use, [...]
If you haven’t heard of Chris Brogan, you obviously haven’t spent much time in the world of social media. Chris has sort of become an industry rockstar, if we’re all accepting that “social media” has become its own industry. As Chris states, he’s been blogging since it was called “journaling” (for over 10 years) and [...]
This sounds like it would be a relatively easy task. I mean, how many things can you actually write about? In truth, when we decide to start blogging we oftentimes come to find that this is one of the most difficult tasks for us to accomplish.
Why? Because we actually know a lot! We just can’t [...]
I’ve been a member of Brian Clark’s “Teaching Sells” since its first release. I joined Chris Brogan and Julien Smith’s Trust Agents online community on Facebook and bought their newly released book. I attended an event held for author Pamela Slim who writes on her blog Escape from Cubicle Nation and has a book of [...]
I’ll admit, I’m a Pamela Slim fan. Why? Because I got to meet her personally. I got to see that what she states on her blog Escape from Cublic Nation and in her Twitter Feed (@pamslim) and everywhere else I have read about her is exactly what she lives day in and day out. I [...]
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