SOB Business Cafe 05-21-10
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Ramblings from a Glass Half Full
“It can’t be done”
“You can’t do that”
How many times have you heard these words? Plenty of times, I bet. “Can’t” is a big, fat, stop sign designed to sabotage a dream.
The Social Media Marketing Blog
It turns out that it’s pretty simple to understand what women want. All you have to do is ask them. Of course, you have to be listening and willing to put it into practice. Having been married for nearly 9 years, I’m no genius at dating; but there are some parallels here that even my feeble brain can pull out.
Read more: http://www.scottmonty.com/2010/05/online-ad-targeting-is-pretty-much-like.html#ixzz0oXCwqvf5
ReveNews
The service is called CinemaNow, partnering Best Buy with Sonic Solutions Inc. The service will start as a la carte, and hopes to progress to a Netflix like subscription service. Movie rentals will start at 2.99, videos for purchase will run from 9.99 – 19.99.
C-Level Strategies and Awakenings
To be honest, I used to avoid networking events if I was not absolutely sure that someone I knew would be there – someone for me to “hang out with.” This was a real detriment to my career as it drastically limited my exposure to executives outside of my little “bubble,” and prevented me from making wonderful new business connections.
One Mann’s Opinion
It’s scary and exciting and big monsters are there to eat you and you don’t know where to start. The best place is with your personal or business strategy. You don’t need to embrace it all, you don’t need to be everywhere and frankly no one can.
Des Walsh
Conversations about social media in business often start with questions about tools. “Should we have a Facebook page?” “Should we be on Twitter?” “Should we have a blog and if so how do we go about that?”
These are perfectly reasonable questions. But they jump the gun.
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Connie Reece
As they say about a picture …
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SOB Business Cafe 05-14-10
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Welcome to the SOB Cafe
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The Specials this Week are
Sticky Figure
Now, there are lots of ways to find suppliers. You can Google, make phone calls, field incoming sales calls, sit through capabilities presentations, go through an RFP process, vet vendors, pick one and hope it works….you know the drill. Inefficient, time-intensive, risky.
Life as a Literary Agent
Too often, people sit down and nervously launch into some kind of story and I find myself dizzy with confusion. I sit there like a deer in the headlights and then I say something like, “Let’s back up. What’s your name? And is this fiction or nonfiction?”
Steve Farber
So, imagine my surprise (really, really great surprise) when I started to hear from educators–teachers, principals, administrators–about how they’d been applying the principles of Extreme Leadership in their buildings, in their schools, their classrooms. I’ve written about several of these amazing educators on this blog.
OPEN Small Business
While social media cheat-sheets and short cuts are available almost everywhere you look, the truth is that we have some work ahead of us. To help, I’ve assembled a list of five best practices to help you build, cultivate, and measure success in the new web right now.
Blue Sky Factory
If I could give you one piece of advice to make your email marketing efforts optimized, it would be to make sure you are fulfilling these 3 integral factors for email deliverability:
Media Post: Research Brief
Traditionally, PR has focused on reputation, earned media, third-party validation, and awareness-building – while marketing has been generally focused on advertising, sponsorships and lead-generation. The conversation has centered on how these two disciplines should be orchestrated to increase the overall effectiveness of outreach.
Social media contains elements that both disciplines find appealing and complementary to their existing efforts, so the debate has shifted towards who should “own” social media and, more importantly, how best to integrate social media with broader marketing or communications channels.
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Digital Dads
Now, don’t get me wrong. I am the farthest thing from an uptight prude. But, as I sat there in the audience and watched the 6 & 7 year old teams shake things they didn’t have and perform moves that were more appropriate for a stripper pole then a school stage I had to stop and wonder. Why are we letting our kids do this?
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SOB Business Cafe 05-07-10
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Welcome to the SOB Cafe
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The Specials this Week are
End Homelessness
There are first times for everything. The first time I drove a car, first time I broke my leg, first time I ate sushi, the first time I went to work, the first time I was fired, and I’ll never forget my first kiss. ‘Firsts’ are memorable parts of life and growing up.
Well, the same goes for that first night spent on the streets or in a homeless shelter. The first time you’re homeless, the intense feelings of fear and uncertainty are impossible to forget.
CommonCentsMom
Earlier this year I wrote a post about how important online relationships are and well WON my way to this room of people. Many of my blogging heroes where in this room. Well life threw a curve ball and I couldn’t go. I was blessed enough the the founders of SOBCon let me pass my win on to another Canadian blogger. I gave my ticket to Scott Stratten..and if you are in the marketing world and don’t know who he is may I suggest you read his new book due out in August.
So what about the girl who didn’t get to go? The one who got stuck sitting at home?
Ramblings from a Glass Half Full
And when we finished, all of us were transformed.
I know, transformed is a pretty strong word, and for those of you who have never been to a SOBCon, I can understand some skepticism here. How can that happen? It’s just a conference, right? And we all know what happens there – speakers speaking, panelists pontificating, and audience members watching passively (and checking their watches looking forward to the next coffee break).
Wrong.
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SOB Business Cafe 04-23-10
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Welcome to the SOB Cafe
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The Specials this Week are
ConflictZen
A conflict’s greatest opportunity for collaborative resolution is usually near the time it first occurred (if such a time can be known) or at least nearer the time it first entered your awareness.
Sometimes, the triggering event is clear and memorable. Sometimes it’s elusive, building under the radar over time, brick by brick, small frustration by small frustration.
Small Business United
In the many discussions I’ve had with aspiring entrepreneurs over the past 15 years, one of the top ten reasons that they give for wanting to start a business is that they dream of pursuing their hobby full time.
Linzstar
It just makes me wonder what gives someone the right to say such things. For anyone who thinks they’re holier than thou when it comes to social media and how it should be done, I really think it’s time to consider whether or not you’re on a high horse.
Reiki Help Blog
In its most general sense, spirituality is a way of contemplating and understanding the invisible aspects of life and to transcend the personal, tangible and finite details of this world.
Make It Happen
Are you surrounded with people who accept you just the way you are?
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Johnny Goldstein
Graphic record of 140conf talk
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SOB Business Cafe 04-16-10
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The Specials this Week are
gaping void and Pam Slim
I was one powerful little girl. The Champion of the World.
My Dad smiled at me, squinting his eyes as he crouched behind the camera. I was safe, cherished and loved. He snapped the picture.
Things blew up after that, rather quickly.
Jonathan Fields, Awake at the Wheel
Rather than focusing all of your energy on fixing what’s wrong with your life, he asked:
What might happen if you focused instead on the sole quest to identify, then grow what was right?
Ramblings from a Glass Half Full
It happens the moment I step on a plane. That loss of control. Someone else is behind the wheel and taking me somewhere.
When control is lost, I get nervous. Edgy. Unsure. I need something to calm me down.
That something is information.
Art of Nonconformity
On the ride down I replayed the classic “time/money/no object” game in my head. You know, the one where you ask: “If time and money were no object, what would I do today?”
Social Media Explorer
It doesn’t matter which social media monitoring service you use. None of them do what you want them to do. They’re good at doing part of the job, but not all of it. And sadly, they probably won’t ever be good at doing all of the job because you have to do it.
Altitude Branding
Sometimes, you just outgrow things.
When you first learned to read, Dr. Seuss was awesome. Simple, rhyme-y, easy to grasp and remember. When you were little, you likely read those books over and over and never got tired of them.
Until you did. Until you needed something more to challenge you,
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4/16 is Foursquare Day
Are you already the “Mayor McCheese” of your local McDonald’s on Foursquare? Get excited because this Friday the 16th could be your lucky day. We are very proud to announce that McDonald’s are joining the celebration of Foursquare Day by offering special deals for Foursquare users on April 16th 2010. That’s right folks, ALL 17,000 McDonald’s restaurants in the USA will become Foursquare Day venues.
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