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The Mic Is On: What's the Best and the Worst of What's Free?

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It’s Like Open Mic Only Different

The Mic Is On

Here’s how it works.

It’s like any rambling conversation. Don’t try to read it all. Jump in whenever you get here. Just go to the end and start talking. EVERYONE is WELCOME.
The rules are simple — be nice.

There are always first timers and new things to talk about. It’s sort of half “Cheers” part “Friends” and part video game. You don’t know how much fun it is until you try it.

Free, Free, Free! But Wait!!

They say the word, FREE! will get us to engage, to participate, to buy things we don’t want for higher prices! But sometimes we get things for free in the most interesting and unlikely ways … Think about a time you got something for nothing.

  • Did you ever win something?
  • Did you ever get something free that turned out to cost you plenty?
  • Is the free culture of the Internet a good thing?

And, whatever else comes up, including THE EVER POPULAR, Basil the code-writing donkey . . . and flamenco dancing (because we always get off topic, anyway.)

Oh, and bring example links.

–ME “Liz” Strauss
image: sxc.hu
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Thanks to Week 171 SOBs

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Successful and Outstanding Bloggers

Let me introduce the bloggers
who have earned this official badge of achievement,

and the right to call themselves
Successful Blog SOBs.

I invite them to take a badge home to display on their blogs.

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They take the conversation to their readers,
contribute great ideas, challenge us, make us better, and make our businesses stronger.

I thank all of our SOBs for thinking what we say is worth passing on.
Good conversation shared can only improve the blogging community.

Should anyone question this SOB button’s validity, send him or her to me. Thie award carries a “Liz said so” guarantee, is endorsed by Kings of the Hemispheres, Martin and Michael, and is backed by my brothers, Angelo and Pasquale.

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Want to become an SOB?

If you’re an SO-Wanna-B, you can see the whole list of SOBs and learn how to be one by visiting the SOB Hall of Fame– A-Z Directory . Click the link or visit the What IS an SOB?! page in the sidebar.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

SOB Business Cafe 01-30-09

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SB Cafe

Welcome to the SOB Cafe

We offer the best in thinking — articles, books, podcasts, and videos about business online written by the Successful and Outstanding Bloggers of Successful Blog. Click on the titles to enjoy each selection.

The Specials this Week are

Brian Gardner Media explores real life action on the Internet.
Haven’t you ever seen that video clip, where the guy drops his camera at the zoo, and panics, because he just spent a lot of money on it? So he climbs over the fence and just when he thinks his life is bad enough, he realizes that he just entered the lion’s den?

Duct Tape Marketing explores tools we may have forgotten.
Having lots of channels and lots of ways for folks to receive relevant, education based content is a must.

While social media and other web based marketing tools are getting most of today’s hype, email marketing to a list of willing recipients is still a very powerful way to market.

Beth’s Blog explores insights of online experiences.
Last year at this time, I was in Austin, TX doing a keynote workshop for Legal ervices Corporation on the ROI of Nonprofit Technology. I interviewed technology practitioners from the poverty law community about how they approach ROI and significant technology systems investments like client databases, document assembly systems, or video conference systems.

CC Seed explores a finding a new place in time.
The empty aisles I found while visiting Binghamton, NY should not have surprised me, but they did.

Related ala carte selections include

PerkettPRsuasion explores do-it-yourself work of the wrong kind.

Sit back. Enjoy your read. Nachos and drinks will be right over. Stay as long as you like. No tips required. Comments appreciated.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

The Mic is On: It's About T-Shirts, Cards, and Bumper Stickers

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It’s Like Open Mic Only Different

The Mic Is On

Here’s how it works.

It’s like any rambling conversation. Don’t try to read it all. Jump in whenever you get here. Just go to the end and start talking. EVERYONE is WELCOME.
The rules are simple — be nice.

There are always first timers and new things to talk about. It’s sort of half “Cheers” part “Friends” and part video game. You don’t know how much fun it is until you try it.

and Other Witty Remarkables

We’ve all seen them. The classic remarks that say what we’d really like to say, the ones that describe us so well we wear them or give them to our friends, and the ones that mystify and confound us, but get us talking just the same. C’mon share a few.

  • This t-shirt has been read more than your blog
  • Please pass, I left early
  • Visualize Grilled Cheese
  • How can I miss you if you won’t go away?
Fred Babb T-shirt "Don't Drink and Draw."
Fred Babb T-shirt Don't Drink and Draw.

And, whatever else comes up, including THE EVER POPULAR, Basil the code-writing donkey . . . and flamenco dancing (because we always get off topic, anyway.)

Oh, and bring example links.

–ME “Liz” Strauss
image: Fred Babb t-shirt
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