I don’t know about you… but I am addicted to connections. I came home yesterday from my 2nd networking group of the day (connections #1), only to find our cable was out (connections #2a), rendering our house in panic with no tv, phone lines or internet! So I jump on my cell phone to look…
DetailsThere’s an old joke “Stand back… I am a weapon… I know Karate, Kung Fu… and three other kool words that begin with K”. Well this weeks blog is about those other three words. KUNUNDRUM… A week or so ago, I was teaching a class at the Forest Park Library on using Facebook, Twitter and…
DetailsYou’ve probably heard the joke that goes… A man goes to heaven and says to God… “God, I had a wonderful life but how come you never let me win the Lottery?”. God says “How come you never bought a ticket?”. The business equivalent of that is “How can I get more business?”. To which…
DetailsDid you ever notice that you always find things in last place you look? Or as the song goes, “Oh it only seems to go… that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone”? It’s been about an hour since our Comcast service inexplicably shut down. The only explanation there is an outage in…
DetailsI knew I was in trouble when… One of the participants of our speech said “I only need a cell phone to do two things… Let me answer calls and tell me the time.”. That’s when you know that trying to teach a crowd of people about using Social Networking to promote their business is…
DetailsBang Your Head…. Do you know the definition of insanity? It’s “Doing the same thing over and over… and expecting different results”. It’s like banging you head against a wall and hoping the wall will move. In my day… ‘Head Bangers’ had a completely different connotation! But in the marketing business, I see this all…
DetailsDid you know that kids are leaving Facebook in droves? That’s because their moms are joining! Some people look at Facebook as just a fun way to communicate with friends, but then you have to ask yourself… “Why are so many large and small businesses using this as a marketing tool and some are making…
DetailsSo… How’s Business? That’s a question that most small business owners or independent reps ask each other all the time. You hear all kind of answers like “O.K.”, “Hanging in there”, or “So-So”. Of course you get the occasional “Fabulous”, “Busy”, and “Dewd… I just bought my own personal island in the Caribbean”. I chose…
DetailsRock Stars… Do you think of yourself as a Rock Star? Most people don’t… As a matter of fact most rock stars are thought of aging idols who partied too hard and are showing their age… (some are better than others at getting to an age where they can show it). Well I am a…
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