Connecting the dots of life and business

Today is the first day of 2011 and like most I spent some time reflecting on 2010.  I’m pretty happy with what I accomplished, but a glaring hole was my blog.  Glaring doesn’t really state the size of this gap, I literally didn’t post once the entire year… as in ZERO.  With so many people [...]

When I took this picture at left, I thought Tim O’Reilly did not expect to ignite such overuse of a synonym for a product’s next generation when he coined the term, Web 2.0. From the marketing perspective, I understand the desire to use a term so ubiquitous for message comprehension, but this common software nomenclature [...]

If you’re like me, I find a site I find interesting tag it in del.icio.us (or bookmark it) and forget it ever existed. In the past few days, I’ve run across several sites I think you can actually use. regularly. Here’s a quick list of web tools you’ll come back to use again. 101 WordPress [...]

I’m a believer we’re all in sales. Maybe you’re selling your boss or your husband, but sales skills can be applied in many areas of life. If the person you’re selling to keeps telling you no, I suggest you find someone they know. This quote from Entrepreneur magazine (which I found from Rajesh’s great post) [...]

Need more traffic? We’d all like a little more, right? Love it or hate it, Truemors can actually drive traffic to your site. Don’t believe me… give it a try. In my interview with Guy Kawasaki, we discuss how submissions on Truemors get to the top and why some get booted off for blatant self-promotion. [...]

Remember when gmail invites were all the rage? That was a hot invite to get. The latest rage seems to be Pownce. Today, I received an invite from a blogger who’s name is the best I’ve seen in recent days, Jeffro2pt0. But Pownce wasn’t the first invite I’ve found from another blogger. Rob gave me [...]