A positive encouraging comment about my blog by my friend Katie Felten inspired to me record this vBlog this morning. To help and encourage others was also the topic of a brief conversation with John Amatt and his wife while having dinner last night. John led the first Canadian climb of Mount … [Read more...]
Scalability ceiling holding you back?
Doctors and lawyers face the scalability ceiling everyday. For the most part they bill by the hour and have only two ways to make more money, work more hours or find customers willing to pay more per hour. (Sure, the creative few have found ways through the scalability ceiling like owning the clinic … [Read more...]
Info*Flex – Social Media Test
Tomorrow morning I board a plane for the Info*Flex trade show. Time for a social media test of the strategies I have utilized over the past six months. My social media test parameters will be to keep track of the number of comments I get about blog posts, Facebook and Twitter activity. My intention … [Read more...]
Twitter Follow Friday – Meet 'em for Coffee
Twitter is new. Together we are all learning how to utilize Twitter as a tool to facilitate communication. Without any real plan or intention I have been moving towards turning Twitter "friendships" into face to face meetings. Coffee Meetings: This week's Twitter Follow Friday (the blog edition) … [Read more...]
Selling Dreams – Vimeo Video and Slide Deck
Earlier this week I had the pleasure of speaking to the Milwaukee PHP User Group about selling dreams which is what solutions based software companies (like mine ColorMetrix) do. It was fun to have my business partner Michael Litscher there to interject his thoughts about some of the selling dreams … [Read more...]
Selling the Dream – Live Event with Me
Tomorrow (April 27th 2010) I am presenting a talk about selling the dream for the Milwaukee PHP User Group. The meeting is open to all interested parties and will be held at the very cool new home of Bucketworks. Since I don't believe in coincidences, I knew there was a reason Justin Kownacki … [Read more...]
Plan B – Have one for your home base?
After reading Chris Brogan's post "When Google Owns You - A New Chapter." First, my heart went out to him as I've managed to destroy about four cell phones while on the road with no plan B. I could relate to the sense of isolation and perceived helplessness. I had just finished my plan B, which is … [Read more...]
Follow Friday #3 – Milwaukee Edition
In honor of yesterday's #BigMKETweetup I decided it would be appropriate to give props to my local tweeps. Let's start with @cbuser who just now randomly walked into the Starbucks I hide at about once a week to catch up on blogging "business." Only my second time meeting Carolyn and she's yet … [Read more...]
The Help Others Manifesto
In my life, acts of kindness and giving back have always yielded unexpected rewards. Sometimes the rewards came years later. From A Business Perspective Until 2005 ColorMetrix hosted a meeting for our users in Las Vegas. The financial objective of the meeting was always the same, break-even. The … [Read more...]
Twitter beyond 140 characters – real conversations
What happens when twitter conversations move from the virtual world limit of 140 characters to the real world with no limits? In this video blog I share first hand just such a recent experience. Here are some links to help you reach the people mentioned in the video. @felska and @jennkorducki … [Read more...]
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