Connecting the dots of life and business

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 become [...]

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.
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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Yesterday, I was in a local business and saw this old school calendar on the desk. Actually, they had one on each desk. None of them had a sign of use in 2007. I immediately made the connection of how long it takes to change human behavior patterns. We didn’t just [...]