A lot of my recent blog articles have been inspired by the book “Rework” written by Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson, the founders of 37Signals. One of their mini-chapters hits on the topic of learning how to say no. While reading this, it was like getting sucker punched in the gut. The entire chapter [...]
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This video walks you through how to change Wordpress’ Permalinks. Permalinks are what control the way your URL through wordpress is displayed. A quick change to the default settings can clean up a messy URL.
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Do you remember when Lil Jon came out with his first, what I would consider main stream, hit “Get Low” It swept the club scene during the spring/summer of 2003, but most people had never heard of Lil Jon. I know I hadn’t. Which leads you to think, “Who is this guy? He comes out [...]
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While running a business I have learned that meetings are the Chinese Finger Traps of a company. It looks like you can easily escape, but you’re wrong. Meetings last far too long and get off topic faster than a Nolan Ryan fastball.
A few reasons as to why meetings are “Chinese Finger Traps”
- Meetings almost never [...]
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A dear friend of mind smacked me upside the head yesterday….in a good way. We started to discuss a “power circle” as most people call them, I prefer to call it a ground of friends who happen to pass business to each other. I proceeded to invite my friend to be apart of my “power [...]
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So, today I had a little fun. Well, some thought it was fun. Others were completely annoyed and I think one was in fact upset, it might of ruined Monday for this person. Most of us in the Twitter scene in Indianapolis have heard of the Social Media Breakfast. Today they [...]
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I’ve never been one to follow the crowd. Everyone wore red, I’d wear blue. I hated the game “follow the leader”. I’m not big for falling into what’s popular. I can even, with a clear conscious, say that I have never set foot into Abercrombie and Fitch. Wanna know something hilarious? They were one of [...]
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I wont lie to you, I’ve failed. Many times over to be honest, but my most recent failure was a business. I tried to start a clothing company back in the fall of 09. Disaster. I had zero industry experience (unless you count the three months I worked at a sports store), zero industry connections, [...]
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While out networking, do you get tired of Chatty Cathy who throws up all over you about their business for 15 minutes? Have you ever stopped to think about how much that person could be costing you in positive connections that could very well lead to sales?
Something to think about, limit your time while networking [...]
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If you haven’t heard yet, networking is the new wave in developing referrals and clients. It’s also a fun and effective way of keeping a pipeline full of new business. If you’ve never ventured out to the networking world, it can be a fairly intimidating environment if you’re not prepared.
Before starting to network it’s important [...]
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