strategy

Holiday Stress! Fight Back

Holidays are coming, the economy is down, and everyone is stressed out!  Dr. Jerry Gelbart of The Potent Mind provides 10 suggestions to fight off holiday stress.
My favorite is number 1, “GIVE PRESENCE INSTEAD OF PRESENTS !!!”  We need to remember that the importance of the holiday season is around family and friends.  I know [...]


My #2 Tip of Social Media Marketing

In follow up to my post “My #1 Tip for Social Media Marketing,” I provide tip #2…
Listen!
People want to feel important (tip #1) and one of the best ways to do that is to show that you are willing to give your time and listen to them.  But just listening to individuals doesn’t cut it.

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Why Does Every One Hate Me? 6 steps to diffusing anger.

“No body likes me,
Everybody hates me,
Guess I’ll go eat worms!”
Social Media opens yourself/your business/your products up to a world of criticism and complaints.  This is helpful for improving and understanding what issues there might be, but sometimes people can get a little too emotional and vocal.  In follow up to my post yesterday about how [...]


Paul Gillin, Chris Brogan and Seth Godin are F-ing IDIOTS!

Seriously, these guy are a regular Larry, Moe and Curly when it comes to marketing (I’ll let you figure out which one’s Curly).  I have had it up to here *raising hand to eye level* with listening to the advice and reading the books that these three spew out on a constant basis! Man, where [...]


My To-Do List…

It is Friday, and while most people get excited about the weekend I think about all the stuff I wanted to do during the week that I didn’t get to.  But hey… there’s always next week, right!
Here is my current to-do list:

Read and review the advanced copy I got of “Secrets of Social Media Marketing” [...]