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It’s Getting Really Hard to be a Jerk These Days

It’s really funny and I think it`s really great and a sign that society is moving in the right direction but it is getting harder and harder to be a jerk these days. It used to be pretty easy to get away with because you were able to treat some people badly and suck up [...]

They’re All Going to Laugh at You!

As part of the transition from the 1900’s to the 2000’s and more specifically the last few years, we all have to get over a major obstacle in order to move forward. The major obstacle as made famous by Adam Sandler is the fear that “they’re all going to laugh at you!“. As individuals, many [...]

The Beauty of RSS Feeds and Readers

(For the “How To”, scroll to the bottom of the post.) You don’t really see the benefit of RSS feeds and a reader if you are working with very few sites. If all you need is to check cnn.com for your news and yahoo finance for your investments, you might look at an rss reader as [...]

If You Become Friends with your Customers, Act Like a Friend, not a Business

Joseph Jaffe, Chief Interruptor at Crayon and one of the leading specialists in conversational marketing and social media, recently had a really bad experience with American Express and took the time to rant about it for a few minutes on his online TV channel. He got upset at American Express for doing something to him [...]

You Can’t Be Anonymous Online, So Be Yourself!

I want to clear up a huge misconception about the internet: You are not anonymous online, no matter how hard you try to hide your identity. Everything you do online is recorded and traced back to your computer with the time and date stamped on it. Everything you post online is indexed by the search engines and [...]

Once You Press Send You Can Never Take It Back

Everything You Say Online Stays Online… Forever As Peter Parker/Spiderman’s Uncle Ben once said “with great power, comes great responsibility”. In this digital age, we all have a “great power”, the power of our voices. Anyone in the world can have his opinion heard and it is as simple as commenting on a blog [...]

StumbleUpon Searches What’s Popular, Not What You Optimize

In case there wasn’t enough competition for search on the internet, just weeks after Microsoft launched Bing, StumbleUpon launched their own search engine. For those of you that don’t know, StumbleUpon was originally, in the words of StumbleUpon CEO Garrett Camp “a site where you could click a button and discover interesting, personalized and highly [...]

Are you an Online Renter or an Owner?

When it comes to your physical residence, you probably know the differences of property ownership versus renting. There are some pros of each. Some of the pros of ownership are: · Each month you put money into your asset instead of someone else’s pocket. · Once you finish paying off your mortgage, you have a very significant asset. · [...]

Dead Men Tell no Tales and Companies need to Speak up to Stay Alive

Hush-Hush Doesn’t Work Anymore In the past, it has been very common for companies and organizations to want to keep everything completely “hush-hush”. Whatever happens in the company stays in the company. This strategy may have worked in the past but now, if a company withholds information, they will be suspected of the worst. Clients and [...]

Exponentially Increase your Intelligence

The most important skill to have is to know how to find what you are looking for. There are often times when a problem arises at the office or anywhere else and you have no idea how to solve it. Sometimes you don’t even know enough to know who to call. For example, you are [...]