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Posts Tagged ‘Entreprenuers’

How To Be Better Social Media Consultants

Will you indulge me in a scenario for a moment? Let’s say you and your friends play a few rounds of golf each year.  You’re not a bad golfer and sometimes you even shoot the lowest of your group.  Who knows, maybe you’ve even hit par on occasion.  You have some talent with the clubs [...]

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Winning the Location-Based Applications Race

After writing a few posts on how businesses might start thinking about how they could leverage Fourquare, it’s been a topic of conversation in just about every coffee meet up since.  Today was a great conversation with Faye Stock Oney and Jan Antauer.  Jan is in the coffee business in Historic Dublin, and makes a [...]

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Finding Release

Most people are surprised when they learn I love listening to bluegrass music. I guess it’s something about the speedy melodies and thick harmonies that rings with me.  I dig the culture, too. Following bluegrass, jam bands and festivals comes with a certain set of community guidelines.  While there are no formal rules, people tend [...]

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Skype Session: Interview with Jason Baer of Convince & Convert

Today, I’m delighted to bring you a very special Skype Session. If you’re not following Jason Baer and his Convince & Convert blog, you probably should be.  Jason is based in Flagstaff, Arizona and works primarily with advertising agencies as a social media strategy consultant.  His blog is widely popular and recognized by a variety [...]

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ROI of a Sandwich & Why Katzinger’s Deli Knows Customer Experience

On all fronts, Columbus-based Katzinger’s Delicatessen is the best in the world.  At the very least, they’re the best in the Midwest.  Hands down, their sandwiches and other foreign delicacies are absolutely worth talking about. But tonight, they caught me off guard.  One human being working behind Katzinger’s counter made my entire evening better.  Please [...]

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Some Damn Good Storytelling in Dublin, Ohio

This post has one purpose. I’d like to give a well deserved hat tip to my good friend, Eric Leslie, and his extremely talented collaborators at Palestra Creative for their amazing work on producing the Six Degrees of Dublin video documentary series.  I’m a huge fan of what they are doing for two reasons: These guys [...]

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HOW TO Use a Foursquare Strategy for Customer Retention & Foot Traffic

As I go deeper and deeper into analyzing Foursquare and its potential, I’ve begun noticing ways to apply their strategy ideas to a variety of different businesses. Serious potential falls into the lap of small businesses who are motivated (and brave enough) to begin experimenting with how they can utilize the application to tap into [...]

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You Have Permission

Are you happy doing what you do? Or do you feel stuck? Guess what? You have permission to change. You have to do things differently than the person who came before you.  If they don’t want you to do things differently, and that bothers you, you have permission to look for something else.  You have [...]

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Only Thing Constant is Change – Part 1

You rock. I really appreciate that you take time to read my stuff and I’m glad you find some value in my daily banter.  Truth be told, I’m grateful you’re here.  Seriously.  Getting to communicate with you via the social web has made a huge difference in my life.  Thank you. [Mushiness over.] Only Thing [...]

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Why I Think Foursquare Has the Strategy to Win the Location-Based Race

I realized yesterday that Foursquare has the right strategy to win the location-based race taking hold in the mainstream space of the social web. I’ve personally become addicted to the point system on Foursquare.  It’s actually kind of silly.  Aside from being one more tool that boosts online visibility, winning at Foursquare doesn’t really mean [...]

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