A Lesson in Communication from Sun Tzu
I’ve always enjoyed reading inspirational or thought provoking books when I have the time. I’m kind of a geek at heart and love learning about history, ancient philosophers and other wise men throughout the centuries whose names have lived on and words have remained relevant long after their time. One such person is Sun Tzu, [...]
Four Reasons Why Social Media Can Improve your Career & Personal Brand
Recently I’ve been viewing a lot of resumes and talking with a lot of recent college grads looking for jobs. Lots of the resumes I see are dull and unimpressive. Even many designer resumes I’ve reviewed have been bland with no personality. It really made me think about how helpful engaging in social media can [...]
New Beginnings
We’re in the midst of the worst economy since the great depression. People are getting laid off or fired everyday and thousands of college graduates (and millions of others) across the country are struggling to find a job. With that said why in the world would I choose to quit my job now?
Allow [...]
IZEA’s Site Get’s An Upgrade
I had to make a post to give props to our design & marketing team at IZEA for releasing a new version of IZEA.com. The new interface allows for so much more informative content and looks great!
By visiting IZEA’s site you can view an awesome case study on IZEA’s social media campaign for Kmart and [...]
10 Things a Start-up Entrepreneur’s Valentine Should Know
This is a guest post written by my girlfriend Lindsay Ament (@Lindsay273).
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Since it is Valentines Day I spent some time reflecting on my wonderful relationship of three and a half years with my boyfriend David. However, being the girlfriend of an entrepreneur is challenging but I wouldn’t trade it for anything in the world. So [...]
Who Else Wants to Accomplish their goals in 2009?
Have you ever set a New Year’s resolution or goal that you didn’t keep? You’re not alone…Every year around this time millions of people get excited about changes they will make in the new year only to let their goals fall to the way side only weeks later.One insightful quote I like to reflect on [...]
The Power of Building Your Personal Brand Online
I just had a great conversation with James Betterson about the power of building your personal brand online. I mentioned that each time you create value-added content and contribute to meaningful conversations online in your respective niche you are building your personal brand and “Flexing your expertise”, as my friend Anthony Richardson calls it.
By flexing [...]
Top Ten Business Lessons I’ve Learned from Sports
In the last post I wrote I discussed my thoughts on being the best player on a losing team vs. the worst player on a winning team. In that post I touched on my personal experiences dealing with both scenarios in sports and business. I had several readers email me and tell me they wanted [...]
Being the Worst player on a winning team vs. the Best player on a losing team
Ted Murphy of IZEA just asked this question via twitter:
Very good question and I wanted to elaborate about this.
My first response to Ted was that it really depends what game we’re playing, what the perks are of winning and what the risks are of losing.
I grew up playing basketball and my dad always took me [...]
The Frugal Millionaires- Jeff Lehman
Jeff Lehman, a former executive of Alta Vista, Webaroo and a current adviser to GroupTable recently networked with 70 Millionaires and asked them questions about how they obtained wealth, how they live their life to keep that wealth, and recommendations & ideas for others to live their lives financially smart. He took all of his [...]
