My friend Chris Brogan is working furiously to finish his book, Google+ for Business: How Google's Social Network Changes Everything (affiliate link), which you can already pre-order on Amazon. But what if he and his publisher are wrong and Google+ never takes off? Would that be the end of the world … [Read more...]
7 ideas for the next step after a product launch
Have you ever reached the end of a project and then realized you aren't actually quite there? Me too. There are a couple of options when you reach this point: Quit or dig in and figure out how to fix or finish the project. You aren't a quitter or you wouldn't be reading this. So what do you say we … [Read more...]
Why you want to help start something
When Joe Sorge started Kitchen Table Companies (affiliate link) with Chris Brogan, he asked for my help filling the forums with useful and interesting content. I said yes because Joe is a friend; but that's not what this post is about. Instead, I learned the value of being a first mover in a … [Read more...]
Kitchen Table Companies Reviewed
By now you may have heard that my friends Joe Sorge and Chris Brogan have started Kitchen Table Companies. Kitchen Table Companies is a community for small business owners doing business the old fashioned way - around the kitchen table. Chris started there, so did Joe and hey guess what? - me too! I … [Read more...]
Planning Pays Big Dividends
I've managed to get to the point where I am writing my blog posts about a week ahead. All it took was a little planning and now that effort is beginning to pay big dividends. It's not just me. The quest to get ahead began when I read Chris Brogan's With Just A Little Planning. I'll still write … [Read more...]
Twitter Follow Friday (on Saturday)
Chris Brogan wrote a great post about turning Twitter follow Friday into blog traffic. You're here aren't you? So, he got that part right. I now have more than 140 characters to share with you what is so fantastic about the people I recommend you follow. The other part of my sinister plan is to … [Read more...]
Trust as Currency
Today I experienced first hand what if feels like to hold the currency that is the trust of another human being. Early in the day I learned that a new customer has chosen to go with my proposal based upon the recommendation of "Fred," a customer I wrote about in my Regaining Trust post. Later in the … [Read more...]
Smiles and Patience Part II
Your ability to shift or totally eliminate the point at which you become completely frustrated and quit will dramatically improve your life. I have always been good at the not quitting part (perhaps to a fault). You don't stay self employed for almost 15 years without that tenacity. On the … [Read more...]
Living the Dream
At approximately 4:00pm yesterday I walked into AJ Bombers restaurant, sat down in "our booth" (the first booth my wife Cheryl and I ever sat in at Bombers) next to my friend and owner of AJ Bombers, Joe Sorge. Across the table from us sipping his Lakefront brew was Chris Brogan. YES! That Chris … [Read more...]