What are you waiting for? Opportunity is all around you; all you have to do is open your eyes. We only see what we are prepared to see. If you are ready to take a leap, have faith and go for it. One move in the right direction only brings a domino effect of more…
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Be Direct About Your Objectives
Understand your objectives. Make sure before you start anything, a meeting, a social media campaign or a blog post, you inform the other parties of your objectives. Be clear about what you want from any interaction. People appreciate their time being valued. The best way to value other people is to be honest about what…
Only You Can Control Your Future
I grew up reading Dr. Seuss. The reason why I did, do and will always read his books is because he said things like this - Only you can control your future. Any other Dr. Seuss lovers out there? What is your favourite quote?
Allow Opportunity To Come Your Way!
Sometimes that best thing you can do is just sit back and hang tight. Yes, there is a lot of work involved in creating opportunities. We also have to set back and be ready when it comes to us. If you put your ideas out into the world, it is only a matter of time…
Find Helping Hands Online
You always have a chance if you live to fight another day. If you wake up in the morning to fight again, you are one of the lucky ones. - Howard Davis (My Dad) You can jump off a cliff without knowing what is on the other side. We love stories about people who take…
Be Personal When You Post Your Social Media Content
When you are scheduling content remember to relax and enjoy yourself. If you don’t have a sense of playfulness, it will be obvious you are just scheduling for content for the sake of it. There are plenty of ways to schedule content and lots of ways to set up content streams to farm content from.…
Work Smarter Not Harder
Automate to proliferate. I figured out along time ago that people who appeared to be doing well for themselves had a lot of time. They took long lunches, sat in long meetings and spent time in other people’s offices chatting. To be fair most of these people have staff taking care of them as well.…
Explore Hashtags with Twitterversity
Join me at NAB Village September 17th! Learn to tame the little blue with this special lunch time session of Twitterversity! Bring your lunch, a smart phone, laptop or tablet loaded with Twitter to harness the power of the hashtag! In the space of your lunch break we will gain more twitter followers, make our…
Giving Credit Where Credit is Due!
I recently saw a promotion on the National Geographic channel for a new show they are advertising. I believe the show was called Brain Games and they used the quote - “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." They did not give credit to the author, merely stating that…
Play To Overcome Your Fears!
“WE ARE AT A CRITICAL POINT WHERE RAPID CHANGE IS FORCING US TO LOOK NOT JUST TO NEW WAYS OF SOLVING PROBLEMS BUT TO NEW PROBLEMS TO SOLVE.” -TIM BROWN Have no fear! Overcoming your blocks is a very difficult thing to achieve. How do we overcome our blocks? With play. When was the last…
