A customer’s first response runs deep and lasts long. One way I keep myself close to customers is to monitor my first response to new information whenever I can — you know, that initial response that occurs without thinking. I’ve made habit of looking for such responses as I move through my life.
Information has no positive or negative value until I respond to it.
This morning I encountered information that you might use in the same way. Ready? [Read more…]
This man and this one, write thought-filled words at just the right moments. This woman writes words that make me smile and think. As Joe says, “It’s nice to be noticed.”
When WILL YOU Catch the Link Leak Virus?
The link leak virus adds to your blog’s property value. It’s great blog promotion.
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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Staring at a blank screen does nothing for me. In fact, I recommend against it. In my way of thinking, blank things encourage more blank things. When I want my head filled with information and ideas, not with blank, emptiness I do this. [Read more…]
Let me introduce the bloggers
who have earned this official badge of achievement,
I invite them to take a badge home to display on their blogs.
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 badge’s validity, send him or her directly to me. This award comes with a full “Liz said so” guarantee. It is endorsed by Kings of the Hemispheres, Martin and Michael, and backed by my brothers, Angelo and Pasquale.
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. Click the link or visit the What IS an SOB?! page in the sidebar.
–ME “Liz” Strauss
The only way that we can own our part of the Magic Middle is to link together.
Remember the post Link Love Raises Your Property Value? Easton Ellsworth invented a Link Love Event called Blogtipping the very next week–the blogosphere was starting to share links. It was so cool. It was made a monthly thing.
Mike Sigers named this phenomena Link Leak.
Mike Sigers wrote a post explaining Link Leak. He said it was for Martin Neumann at the Small Office Herald, who then named it the Link Leak Project.
Shortly thereafter, Mr. Sigers’ own blog started springing leak after leak.
Successful Blog has been leaking links to SOBs since I’ve been here.
Business Blogwire is Leaking Blogtipping Links.
Simplenomics is Simply Leaking Links. Stop over there and tell Mike what your part will be in the Link Leak project. Then come back and leave a comment here to tell me.
Who knows maybe you’ll make the front page of the Small Office Herald. It surely would make you look like an SOB.
–ME “Liz Strauss
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I’m sure that Jonathan Schwartz has plenty to do. After all, he’s CEO of Sun Microsystems, traveling the world and talking to the media comes with the job — not to mention running that Fortune 500 company. When he took on the role, people wondered whether he would continue his other role as writer of Jonathan’s Blog.
His answer was a lengthy post that said emphatically, “YES.”
That’s because Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems gets what blogging is about. In fact, he takes his blog to the state of the art in corporate blogging. If you’re working with new corporate bloggers or are one yourself, this is the blog to watch. [Read more…]