Lessons in Life, Marketing & Design

TWL #4 Ongoing Penguins, Social Exposure and the video too controversial for TED

Finally, you may not know this but recently there were grumblings that TED had decided not to post a speech by Nick Hanauer….they explained why and here is the video (not on TED but YouTube)

You Gotta Love Disruptive Technologies

A couple years back, I was smack dab in the middle of the Christmas Eve frenzy at Best Buy.  I was searching for a GPS for my directionally challenged wife and had the misfortune of procrastinating .As a result I wound up with a bunch of other husbands looking to buy their wives and girlfriends… Continue Reading

Blogging to Make Money? Quit while you are ahead

I read an interesting post at David Risley’s website that pretty much sums up what I know to be true. No, this isn’t an article that focuses on the negativity of blogging.  There are plenty of reasons why you may want to blog that has nothing to do with money. But if you are hanging… Continue Reading

When is a scam a scam?

The Senate is investigating deceptive sweepstakes practices. These companies target the elderly and make them think they will receive a bunch of money, but in reality they never see any of it.  The most popular of these scams is called Social Security. – Source ahajokes After reading this article, there seems to be a lot… Continue Reading

TWL #3 Blog Tippage, Unnatural Linkage, Fix-it-uppers and Forgetting the Past.

There is no doubt that folks are wondering where to go next in terms of search.  And barring the Eric Ward article below, I refuse to go there and make conjecture.  That said, these are the articles that I thought enough of to bookmark in my delicious account for future reading and saving. What Start-up… Continue Reading

Sinking your Options for Retreat….

Cortés arrived on the shores of South America with one thing in mind-  Colonizing South America and claiming it for Spain.  But what most don’t realize is that wasn’t the reason why he was sent there.  In fact, he wasn’t sent there.  The Governor of Cuba found Cortes too free thinking and dangerous and was… Continue Reading

8 Things I have learned from Using Twitter in the last 8 Months

For the last 8 months or so, I have been trying to solve the twitter puzzle as far as being engaged and getting engaged is concerned. Backlash from the search only crowd in terms of social media and it’s effectiveness is pretty large;  I was in that crowd and recently started playing around to see… Continue Reading

6 Ways to Reach Out for Links and Opportunities- The concept of reaching (out)

You should reach out daily.  If not, you should at least reach out weekly.  How do you reach out? Phone Calls with clients that are paying you or have paid you for services in the past- Reason….they have done business with you before or are doing business with you now, and doing so shows that you… Continue Reading

When Your Fans Pay Your Bills and Open Opportunities..

You can wait around for the Gatekeepers to recognize you and reward you.  Or you can build your business on your own terms.  Amanda Palmer decided to build her business on her own terms. Amanda Palmer- Almost $500,000 pledged for her new record, Art Book and Tour. This is what she said about it(from Bob… Continue Reading

TWL #2 The Penguin Free Edition.

Today is officially Penguin free and these are some links that I felt were noteworthy around the web this week…. 10 Blog Conversion Tips From Derek Halpern- Derek has made a pretty big name for himself fairly quickly because he has a knack for website conversion advice.  In fact, he regularly turns up on other… Continue Reading