Since today is the last day in 2009, I awakened early and decided to clean my office for a great start to 2009. When I got to my office bookshelf for dusting I thought why don’t I share with you my favorite books, podcasts, and videos in 2009.
I’d love to hear from you on this [...]
It’s almost the last day of 2009 and I want you to participate in a simple exercise with me.
I have 5 questions I’d like for you to answer before you turn-out the lights in 2009 and flip the switch for 2010.
1. Sometimes we must go backwards to go forward. How has this manifested itself in [...]
My mother, our college daughter, and our Cambodian exchange student left Arkansas and came to our home near Portland, Oregon for Christmas. Yesterday we drove from our house to Mt. Hood, Oregon (1 hr. drive) to ski and have fun with tubing. It’s our absolute favorite thing to do in the winter time.
When I’m [...]
I’m cleaning the garage and I’d rather have a vasectomy and a bag of frozen peas then clean my garage. It’s the end of the year and I bet you are cleaning up in either your online or offline world.
As I reflect upon 2009, and take a break from cleaning my garage, I offer [...]
My family drank our morning tea, assembled in front of the tree and opened our gifts. This scene plays out across so many homes today.
I’m now thinking about another scene occurring today.
I’m thinking about two volunteers who will meet for the first time. Both are volunteers of our military service. Both of the volunteers are [...]
I was checking my favorite blogs and I found this video created by Dustbrand Films site on the Ragamuffin Soul blog.
I like it. Words, beat, symbolism–it’s all there with a contemporary edge.
If we can be of further assistance to you and your company, we would like to give you a complimentary consultation where we listen [...]
On a business trip to Korea I had some free time so I decided to hire a tour guide.
American business man decides to take strange trip…
As we were driving around Seoul, my tour guide asked me about the U.S. economy and other questions about struggling small business owners. We talked for about thirty minutes as [...]
What virtual sign will you wear around your neck on January 1, 2010? Let me know in comment section.
Do you have a criteria for unsocial social media behavior?
Here is just one criteria for discussion:
Is it unsocial social media behavior for the top 200 people on Twitter with the most followers to not follow anyone –proportionately speaking? A person on Twitter with many followers can engage in meaningful [1-on-1] and [1 on many] conversations [...]
Jamie Birch is the Founder & President of JEB Commerce. He is a friend and client.
Today, I began to receive some fun tweets and emails about some Tweets I’ve made about having great friendships with our clients. So I Skyped Jamie & told him I was going to press the record button for this completely [...]
Are you responsible for creating and delivering content that your ideal clients want to consume and share?
If you are a small business owner or a sales & marketing manager, you answered YES to my question.
What is your proven process to create relevant and unique content across multiple marketing channels such as a blog, Twitter, Facebook, [...]
Watch these brief Oregon Humanities videos.
It sounds so cliche but new ideas to incorporate in your marketing stories and content marketing publications are everywhere across different content channels.
CLICK HERE and read a recent post I wrote called 19 Creativity Ride Alongs where I share my favorite content idea places both online and offline.
In the second [...]
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