September 6, 2010
As I wrote on the Blue Sky Factory blog today, it's Labor Day, a great opportunity to not only celebrate friends and family, but to also take a few minutes to help out someone you know who is looking for work. These days, with the unemployment rate knocking on the 10% door (and underemployment significantly higher), there are plenty of people who are exceptionally talented but can't find a place to call home. It's not the scrubs or the lazy that can't find a job - it's millions of people.
August 18, 2010
A staff memo turned into a video on how to be more productive by chaining productivity ideas together.
July 28, 2010
5 old sales tricks made new again
June 7, 2010
A few quick takeaways from the WWDC keynote address, in which Steve Jobs asks you to spend more of your money on Apple products.
April 18, 2010
I was traveling around Northrend the other day, looking for zombies to send to Amber Naslund for her Social Fresh St. Louis keynote - after all, there's no place to find zombies like the Lich King's backyard. On one of my stops at the Shadow Vault, I took the time to look at The Leaper, a (now) friendly geist hanging out along with Vile, the giant wandering abomination.
April 5, 2010
One of the peculiar habits we have in our hyperactive, short attention span culture is the habit of looking for the big secret. We strive desperately to look for the next big thing, the next big secret, the magic wand that will make everything better. What we tend to overlook - or most of us, anyway - are the little secrets, the little hacks and tweaks you can make to your day, your year, your life to help things operate better.
March 2, 2010
Once upon a time, marketing was just marketing. It was a fabulous era of big brands, big launches, big parties. Martinis were de rigueur, agencies ruled the world, and three piece suits (that looked MAHHH-velous) were the signs of the professional marketer.
August 27, 2009
As I'm sure you have, I've listened to and enjoyed tons of motivational programming, from keynote speakers at conferences to books to audiobooks to seminars to... well, you get it. I can tell you all about Tom Hopkins' sales motivational methods, recite Tony Robbins and Richard Bandler backwards, rant as much as Gary Vaynerchuk, etc. I'm sure you've done and listened to enough motivational stuff to open your own motivational bookstore just with the stuff in your home office.
July 28, 2009
Of all of the work I've done at Edvisors over the years, Scholarship Search Secrets, a free eBook on using Google and other tools to find money for college, is one of my proudest accomplishments. No other single piece of work has changed as many lives for the better as this one eBook, and the sixth edition brings new ideas to the table at a time when they're desperately needed, because college isn't getting cheaper but our collective wallets certainly are getting lighter.
August 18, 2008
I get a lot of email. When I came back from vacation this morning, I faced hundreds and hundreds of emails, from status reports to pitches and everything in between. How did I whittle this down to something manageable?
