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!

07 April 2011 ~ Comments Off

Success is Everything You Do

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You don’t achieve Success by doing one thing.
You achieve Success by EVERYTHING you do.
But you achieve it by doing one successful thing at a time.

02 April 2011 ~ 1 Comment

What I say about you is more important than what YOU say about you

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I just finished reading Gary Vaynerchuk’s latest book, The Thank You Economy. I’d had an opportunity to see and hear Gary speak live about his new book via several online resources, and while there is no denying Gary is passionate speaker, he can tear off on a tangent unrelated to the topic at-hand and will [...]

23 March 2011 ~ 16 Comments

Social Media. You’re Not Doing it Right.

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Everyday more businesses and individuals jump into the deep end of the social media pool. Internal or external pressures dictate that you simply MUST have a Twitter account or a Facebook page or a LinkedIn profile or a Foursquare offer or even a Groupon discount. The problem is, you are correct about the need for [...]

16 March 2011 ~ Comments Off

New Idea Guy Mailing Address

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The Post Office I’ve been using for the past 8 or 9 years is closing. The form letter they sent (with ZERO information on how to contact any human being who actually works in that location) informed me of their intent to relocate my PO Box to a Columbus city office much further from my home than [...]

08 March 2011 ~ Comments Off

The Micro-Script Rules

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Just finished reading a pretty cool book this past weekend; “The Micro-Script Rules: It’s not what people hear. It’s what they repeat…” by Bill Schley.
The term “Micro-Script” is rather more appealing than “catchy-catch-phrase” but it’s essentially a different breed of the same animal (though it could be argued that by comparison the catch-phrase is a [...]