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On Saturday I caught the Life is Good festival. It was a beautiful day in the Boston suburbs made better because all profits generated from the festival (over a million dollars) are going to Children’s charities. For those music geeks reading this, my favorite act was the am...
For a short period of time on Thursday, United Airlines Web reservation system was offering up tickets for a price of zero.
Nokia UK tweeted a fun image during the Apple announcement of the new iPhone offerings yesterday.
Two years ago I wrote a post titled How to get a book deal where I outlined my thoughts on how to convince a major publisher to take on your work. The example I used was Summer Land - who I met at one of my talks in Sydney, Australia - and who took my advice and did the hard...
It’s just an excuse for inaction. “But I do not have enough time to start a blog.” (I’ve heard this one hundreds of times.)
For the past decade, I’ve been evangelizing the new rules of marketing and public relations and so have many of you.
On the speaking circuit, the audiences I’ve addressed have suffered through some terrible introductions of me. It’s a bummer for an audience, anticipating a keynote speaker, to suffer through a bumbled intro. It makes the people who organized the event look unprepared. And a...
My friend Biagio Carrano points us to an interesting quote from Marcelo Bielsa, an Argentine football (soccer) coach who has managed football clubs and also the national teams of Argentina and Chile.