Marketing

Several large companies have started hiring Community Managers. My friend Keith Burtis is a community manager for Best Buy Remix. Keith got me to thinking about how we are all really our own community manager. If you have your own business, you are the owner and responsible for how your experience on the web benefits…

The Power of a Dream Growing up we all had dreams. I wanted to write poetry and be famous. My brother was going to be a racecar driver. Then when we went to college – our dreams changed. I would be a teacher of poetry. My brother was going to be an engineer. When we…

Friday morning I started the mindmapping process.  I was going to have three goals (see bottom of pic): zero debt, healthy, Sr. Director in my business. I started with Healthy.  Drew a cool pic at the middle bottom of the page.  Then I thought about what I had to do to get healthy.  I came…

Lots of talk about doing instead of talking. I’m on the doing side of the conversation. Here’s what I’m doing this weekend. Mindmapping with Cruzanne (results on tomorrows blog). Launch training Saturday in Chicago for my company. New products, new horizons presentation by Eddie Bestosa – one of the best in the network marketing industry.…

What are you doing today?   I’m at Cruzanne’s house – creating what my year will look like.   We are starting with a glass of limoncello.  Then going to make a MINDMAP.  I want to create one for how to use Twitter to further my business.    I’ve got a lot of projects this…

A Couple of Valuable Lessons Learned My 10 year old grandson just asked “is anybody hungry?”.  And then he offered to make me a bologna, cheese and butter sandwich!  Lesson: eat when you are hungry “Aunt Deby, just be quiet and listen.” my four year old great nephew when I was asking him what was…

Chris Brogan wrote a post about 12 things to stop doing in 2009. He also listed six things to do in 2009. I’ve got two things for you to do. Let’s be positive. It’s great advice to talk about what you want, not about what you don’t want. If you need some direction along that…

I’ve been in Chicago since Christmas Day. I lived here 30 years and it feels like coming home. I’ve seen two movies (you MUST see Slumdog Millionaire), ate my favorite gyros at Daves Hot Dogs on 23rd and Western, had the mandatory dinner with Erin at Golden Nugget on Clark and Diversey, shopped the bookstores,…

Boxing Day.  Traditionally the rich gave those in a lower social class a gift on this day.  They spent Christmas day at home – and the next day went out and delivered boxes — boxing day.  In case you wanted to know. Those diseases on House – are they real or just made up by…

Today is the anniversary of the birth of the Christ child. We celebrate the miracle of this birth. Jesus was sent to save the world. He died for our sins. He told us the miracles he performed – we could do as well, and even better! (John 14:11-12) I watched GaryVee on the Today show…