Can Advertising Spend Buy You Love?

“Anyone can pay for something,” was a sage piece of dating advice I was given a long time ago. Beatles might have said it best when they said - “I'll buy you a diamond ring my friend if it makes you feel alright I'll get you anything my friend if it makes you feel alright…

Be Fearless : Your Message Is Your Eye In The Storm

“I feel like I have done it all, I have made all of the mistakes and now I am fearless.“ - Paraphrased from an interview with Barak Obama on Marc Maron’s podcast WTF.   It is not possible to be completely without fear, it is a natural part of being alive. Another way of looking…

Align Your Social Media and Business Goals!

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Goal + Great Tools = Results!Focus is everything!Life can get overwhelming. How do we decide what is important at any one moment.Keep your business goals and social media goals aligned. This can be achieved with focus.We can’t be on every social media platform! Nor should we be. We have to decide where our energy is…

Build Quality Networks

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“You are what you share.” ― C.W. Leadbeater, We Think: The Power Of Mass Creativity What is value? Value is not intrinsic, it is assigned. How do we decide what something is worth? Is it worth our time? What are we getting out of it? If we focus on valuable interactions, we can decide not…

Creating Content Which Reflects The Real You

Who? What ? Why? There are so many answers to these simple questions. Who am I? This is confusing because we are more than a one sentence vision statement. We are a person who fills many different roles in life. Our various relationships give us multiple definitions. When we interact with our parents it is…

Don’t Let Twitter Suck You Down the Rabbit Hole

Aimlessly scrolling through posts or Tweets consumes vast amount of time and reveals very little results.

Don’t let your Twitter feed control you. Ever wonder why it is called a feed? It can become a hungry beast eating up more and more of your time. Aimlessly scrolling through posts or Tweets consumes vast amount of time and produces very little results. Learn to think systematically about your approach to social media.…

Transformation is Power!

A few years ago I documented my tale of my personal transformation on The Bed Blog. I quit my job leaving me a homeless couch surfer who traveled the world and came back to Melbourne with $20 in my pocket. Every night that I was homeless I took a photo of the bed I slept…

Twitter Fundamental No. 2, Be Authentic Online

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“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”  -       Aristotle The more things change the more things stay the same. I say that because Aristotle lived in a very different world to ours, but the principles of what it is to have a good life are the same. Life…

Twitter Fundamental No. 1, Slow and Steady

The official launch of Spendlove and Lamb’s website was Valentines Day. That wasn’t an accident. I chose to promote Spendlove and Lamb on Valentines for a reason. We seek love and, once it is found, focus on it’s cultivation and growth. It is important, it is part of my business name. That is no mistake,…