Why you should always ask…
I get satisfaction from helping people to meet other people, and to helping them find answers (or at least ideas to help them) to the questions they’re asking. It opens up my horizons to all of the possibilities I haven’t…
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You don’t need a business plan yet: 7 ideas for Customer Development
You’re thinking of starting a business? Hooray! Cool idea, and good luck. There are a few things that you can do to get started, and the first ought to be something counter-intuitive: don’t build your business plan. Yet. The first…
What I learned from Big Omaha: Change Yourself, and Change the World
Just Get Going When I sat down to write my takeaways from the Big Omaha conference I attended this week, I struggled with finding a focus. And then I realized that the two key things that I learned from the speakers and…
Be More Timely with Your Twitter Updates
Dear Twitter Friends (Tweeps): We’ve all done it – thought of a clever idea, jotted down 140 120 characters and then clicked “send.” Yet, as Dan Zarrella and others have noted, now is not always the best time to publish content.…
Why I love on-demand video from MLB
The ability to watch live sports anywhere at anytime is just. So. Cool. Ok, you say, “where have you been? Cable and Satellite providers have given us this ability for almost a decade at least. Welcome to the party.” There…
Have you found the career trail?
Which Trail Do You Want To Take? Trail Marker, Tonto National Forest Originally uploaded by gregmeyer If you’re looking for direction on the next stop in your career, try going to a wilderness area or national forest for some tips…
It’s time to work yourself out of a job.
Imagine if one day, you walked into your office (or opened your email or received a text message or a phone call with the following information: Congratulations! You’ve worked yourself out of a job. Now, what will you do next?…
3 Lessons I learned about customer service from food allergies
“You don’t eat wheat?” As a person wtih a gluten intolerance who also really likes to go out to eat, I’ve heard many explanations (or off-putting remarks) from waiters, servers, and restaurant owners. I’ve also been treated to wonderful, unexpected…
You never know when you’re going to see a cactus flower
This week I went from the 48 degrees and rainy world of the Pacific Northwest to the 90-plus degrees of the Sonoran Desert near Scottsdale, Arizona. I thought I was going to see cactii, cactii, and more cactii (it was…
Why am I such a Butler fan?
Why am I a Butler Fan? It’s a great question to ask of any basketball fan, and I think being a Butler fan matches several of my favorite memes about sports: the Underdog, the Team Effort, and the Unexpected. The…
