The Game is On Again 2day
The Game is on again 2day. Not that game, the other one. Tipped off in the garden of Eden. When Adam blamed I Am the shaken began. Man, they're they're team is deep. The Game is on again today, and every day The Game must be played. And, there will be plays, and...
The Effect Michael Jackson Had On VCR Sales
The Effect Michael Jackson Had On VCR Sales I was checking out Facebook today and came across a post my friend Chiji shared of some rare Michael Jackson footage. It was MJ practicing for the Thriller video. More than 30 years later the album and the video still...
The Power Of Human Connection
Chess game theory teaches that connected pawns present the most powerful pawn structures, and connected rooks working together have a higher point value than a queen. Same is true in life. The most powerful, most valuable humans are the most connected humans. Travis...
Remembering Prince
Prince once said he'd rather us celebrate his death than the day of his birth. If you know anything about him you can figure out why. So in remembrance to my brother Prince here's a verse from one of my favorite tunes by him called the Max. I loved this song from...
What Does A Man Do?
What does a man do? It’s a question that neither men, nor woman can provide a solid answer to. It is a question worthy of the deepest of our reflections. In fact it was the question posed by Gustavo (Gus) Fring to Walter White in the award winning series Breaking Bad....
Standing On No
An old friend once taught me that if you don't stand for something you'll fall for anything. Standing for something means saying no to all the things you don't stand for. Taking a stand happens to be the best way to avoid being tossed about by every new trend,...
Barbarian
The initial promise of social media was better connection. An unintended, and un-forseen side effect is that it's allowed easier access to our inner barbarian. When we allow our inner barbarian to run free online, and then discover that we can easily connect with...
It All Adds Up
Today, you can decide to be just a little more empathetic, a little more generous, a little more ambitious, a little more patient. You can do the same thing tomorrow, and of course the day after that, and then...well you get it. You don't have to make giant leaps...
Fear
Just in time for Halloween. Fear may be the most useful of all our emotions. Our ancestors fled and hid from dinosaurs and that fear often kept them from becoming a meal. Fear of starving, going without shelter, or food is great motivation to get us to work smart...
A Word About True Genius
Commoners usually can't recognize the true Genius because what he's doing is so far advanced that he's miles away from the rest of us. In fact the true genius does not even recognize his own work as genius because it's more often than not rejected by the masses. He...
Slave
She's a slave Till her dying day I'm slave, and U 1 2 4 we are all slaves Sold 2 highest bidders, our passions, our jitters Unlike the slave of yore U can choose your muse, so Y not be slave 2 love
Love Who You Do
Instead of being encouraged to love what you do, what if entrepreneurs were encouraged to love who they do. Perhaps they would find it's easier to serve, create value, and truly connect.
Your Brain on Branding
Branding is the reason, just to name a few, why you believe that wearing skinny jeans actually means you're slimmer your perfume makes you sexier it's smarter to use a credit card instead of cash that BMW makes the worlds best car that drinking a Coke makes...
Miles Away vs Miles Ahead
Ali, Jimi Hendrix, Bruce Lee, Steve Jobs, Picasso, Gandhi, Tarantino, and Einstein were always miles ahead. Elvis, Bill Gates, Oprah, and Warhol are/were often miles away. When you're miles away from everyone else the work you're doing will often contain seeds of...
Control Issues
Almost all of the issues of the world 2day will be outside of your control, except.... Who you choose to affiliate with What you choose to think about When you begin and end your day How you choose to spend your energy Where you apply your focus Control these issues...
3 Excellent Examples of Landing Pages
I talk with so many business owners, and unfortunately marketers that don't quite get the sole purpose of landing pages. So here it is...your landing page exist solely for getting website visitors to convert to the next stage in the buying journey. Sounds simple, but...
Being Honest With Yourself
Most people tend to think of honesty as it applies to being truthful in their communication with others. That mindset makes forces you to be far more concerned with being honest with others than you are with being honest with yourself. When you're not honest with...
Michael Phelps Wins 22nd Gold Media – 4 Things Marketers Can Learn From Him
Perhaps you’ve been buried in work, attending to family stuff, or just had your head stuck in the sand this week and you don’t know that Michael Phelps made history with his 22nd Olympic win…and he’s not done. As I watched him barely able to get out of the pool I was...
8 Tips a Small Business Can Use To Improve Their Online Marketing
I've put together a list of 8 things I think entrepreneurs can do to help improve their online presence. Happy reading, and remember I'm here to help. Let's get started. 1) Make sure your website loads fast I can't tell you how many small business owners and...
Overcoming Walls That Separate Us
When there's a wall seperating you from who you want to be, who you want to be with, where you want to go, or what you want to do. You can choose 2 .... Go over the wall Find a way around the wall Bust through the wall But never lower yourself 2 sink below the wall...