Tag: business

Nike has changed the game by creating a game. Each pair of Nike running shoes has an accelerometer that wirelessly syncs with your online Nike+ account. It tracks things like how far and fast you ran, how that compares with other runners, and it awards you virtual trophies for meeting milestones.  Most runners who engage in the Nike+ game would never think of owning another … [read more]

How to get started and push through those business and marketing times where you just want to quit. [read more]

What Does an Internet Marketer Do? It’s All About Building Influence. One thing you will learn about me, I like simple answers. I think the most complex problems are solved by the easy answer, so here goes. An Internet Marketer uses the Internet to influence people’s decisions to do things. Notice I didn’t say “buy stuff.” There’s a reason for that. If you are an … [read more]

Going through my Flipbook this morning I saw a lot of noise about the future of Facebook. An article by Mashable today says that 34% of Facebook users spend less time on the site. It also says that only 1 in 5 people surveyed have ever been influenced by an ad on the site. The survey and other articles, like the one predicting that Facebook … [read more]

Why do so many people work in jobs they hate? Perhaps it’s security or lack of daring or just an inability to see how to break out of the trappings of stability, but there is a secret formula to building a career you love. It’s called “personal branding.” Okay, it’s no SO secret. Guys like Gary Vaynerchuck have talked about this for years, but the … [read more]

Blogging can get monotonous (especially when you hyper specialize in a niche), and when it gets boring you have two choices: plow through boredom and try to find new ways of writing about the old stuff, or give up. This happened to me on a little blog called Lurkers Anonymous. Lurkers was all about how to activate online communities. As I was working in community … [read more]

Being out of work is no fun. Besides the obvious stresses of having no or limited income, the need to pound the pavement to find new work, and the bordem that can set in when not working there is a growing feeling that the world does not appreciate what you have to offer. For anyone who has attained a sense of mastery in their given … [read more]