The best way to get a good idea...

DON! The Idea Guy Linus Pauling said the best way to get a good idea was to get a lot of ideas -- but the question then becomes, how do you get a lot of ideas? The answer is easy... DON THE IDEA GUY!

01 January 2012 ~ Comments Off

A Year of Whensdays

A Year of Whensdays

Time for the annual New Year’s Whensday reboot!
Think of this yearly recurring post as a “New Year’s Holiday Special” for inspiring you (and me!) to get more things done in 2012.
January is an ideal time to adopt an “Everyday is Whensday” philosophy. By now you’ve probably noted the unique spelling (or at the very least [...]

01 November 2011 ~ Comments Off

Wait Loss Program

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One might “gain weight” but there is rarely anything gained by waiting.
On the contrary, the chances are greater that you’ll miss out on opportunities by delaying — you’ll experience “wait loss.”  Some delays are inevitable, but most are self-imposed delays based on fear, distractions, and insecurities.
Fear
Some fear failure, some fear success, some fear making the [...]

31 October 2011 ~ Comments Off

Free Ace of Sales Account

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People know I’m a huge fan of Gitomer’s coolest sales toy ever — Ace of Sales.
I liked it so much that I wrote an ebook sharing 52 ways to use Ace of Sales more creatively to brand yourself with clients, stand out from the competition, and to increase sales. I liked it so much [...]

28 October 2011 ~ Comments Off

Scary Awesome Results from Social Media Photo Sharing

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Fantastic story about a haunted house that attracted a bigger audience seeking a scare NOT by showig how spooky their monsters were or how many cobwebs hung from their doorways, but by instead capturing the sheer terror of the people going through the house.
Read the article here:
How to Be a Frighteningly Brilliant Content Marketer
This is [...]

27 October 2011 ~ Comments Off

Squidoo-Over

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For some reason Seth Godin’s web project Squidoo.com has been popping up on my radar recently.  I’d originally explored the site and its offerings back when Seth first launched it sometime in 2006.  I promptly created an account and began creating pages (Squidoo calls them Lenses) and would update them fairly inconsistently and infrequently.  It [...]