I’ll be on a cruise this week, so Top 5 is going to need to go on hiatus. However, I thought I’d do a special Top 5 today. “Top 5 Goals for the Cruise”
1. Survive.
2. Take lots of pictures.
3. Make sure I make everyone jealous that I’m on a cruise.
4. Make sure Pat, Mike and [...]
My Facebook wall is starting to get filled up with baby pictures. Friends are having babies, becoming aunts and uncles and grandparents (yes, grandparents). I’ve only gotten invited to one baby shower (thank God), but it got me thinking about the absolute best gift you could get for a baby. And then it hit me: [...]
The last couple years have brought out a lot of cliches about “focusing on the positive” and “finding a silver lining” in everything. Experts keep saying that “there is opportunity in every recession”. Some of the largest companies in the world were started during tough economic times.
But what if opportunity was much closer than [...]
There’s a good chance that you’ve heard of Jason Sadler and Evan White. If you haven’t, take a moment to look at their website. They’ve been featured by everyone from the New York Times, to Katie Couric on CBS. What’s the big deal? Well, they make money by wearing t-shirts every day. Not just money…six [...]
Gary Vaynerchuk is insane. He’s got crazy energy, crazy passion and is an extremely prominent figure in social media today. Thing is, he started out running his parent’s wine shop in New Jersey. Today, he’s built the wine shop into a multi-million dollar business, started an ad agency, authored two books and hosts his own [...]
Ok, maybe I take that back…sort of. There was (is) a time when a website was the hallmark of a successful company. If you’ve got a great website, you must be a great company. And why not? After all, your website is your company’s main connection to outside world. However, websites are notoriously difficult for [...]
The new “holy grail” of marketing is the concept of “viral” marketing. An idea, or product gets reposted across social networks and becomes a phenomenon in pop culture. To me, the term “viral” is almost synonomous with “buzz”. How do I get people to talk about my business? Not sure what I’m referring to? Well, [...]
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