Get Ready to Live

March 4, 2010 Comments

So, Tim Hayden from Blue Clover and I have put together a little side event for you to consider if you’re going to SXSW in Austin, Texas. It’s called Get Ready to Live (a name that came out of a throwaway comment Tim made to me at The Big Conference in Portland, Maine, but that [...]

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What I Told Them at LikeMinds

March 4, 2010 Comments

I had a great time at LikeMinds in the UK last week. It was a wonderful event seeking out meaning around people-to-people. It was a brilliant event. My part? I shared a bit of the mind behind the like. Here’s the video:

If you can’t see it, click here.

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Price Points

March 3, 2010 Comments

Evidently, I stunned the world by telling people what I charge for a day of my time. What a great opportunity to talk about pricing, value, worth, etc. Let’s just get right down to business on this one:

Charge what you’re worth. Why are you letting me define you, in either direction. You can [...]

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My Offer on Third Tribe

March 3, 2010 Comments

I just put up an offer on Third Tribe Marketing: ask me almost any business question and I’ll do my best to answer it in the next couple of days.
It costs $47 to join Third Tribes. I charge approximately 466 times that for a day of my time. So, the way I look at [...]

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Social Media 101

March 3, 2010 Comments

Should your company be blogging? What’s Twitter going to do for you? Why is Facebook all the rage? I’m happy to report that my new book, Social Media 101 (amazon aff link) is available for purchase.
Here are a few places where you can buy it, should you want it:
Social Media 101 – 800CEORead
Social Media [...]

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Worlds Without Maps

March 3, 2010 Comments

Why is social media of interest to businesses right now? The answer is simple: it’s what the people are doing. Who benefits the most from connecting with people via these channels? Companies who adapt to the new territory, who use the new tools accordingly, and who strive for human connections over traditional marketing capture/conversion. The [...]

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Publishers And Authors- Some Thoughts

March 1, 2010 Comments

I had the pleasure of speaking with Mac Slocum at O’Reilly’s Tools of Change event in NYC. Here’s what I told publishers and authors to consider:

What do you think?

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Are We Experience Facilitators

February 27, 2010 Comments

I just heard this from Trey Pennington at this offsite summit event that’s the after-event for Like Minds in the UK. I can’t really talk much about the whole conversation that spawned this, but I wanted to pull out this nugget that Trey said:
We are experience facilitators.
My take on his line is this: we’re [...]

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The Anywhen Manifesto

February 27, 2010 Comments

I’m at war with those who threaten anywhen (the state that the Internet provides us by allowing me to write this when I want and you can consume it when you want). To that point, I’m writing a very small manifesto of thought. Here’s what I believe with regards to anywhen. You’re welcome to [...]

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The Assault On Anywhen

February 26, 2010 Comments

**UPDATE: This isn’t CLIENT communications. This is friends and colleagues.** I’m frustrated. I just spent about 20 hours without connection to the web. No email. No Twitter. No blog comments. No nothing. The technical reason was that my flight was seriously delayed, then held in the air, and then when I got to the [...]

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