Passion
My first video blog. I think I’m going to start doing this more often. This is also a sort of response to Aaron Irizarry’s video entry, in which he also included me in his wrap up.
When the Going Get Tough…
07/1/09
I’m posting this blog entry in two ways – video and the usual text blog entry. I thought I’d try this out and see how it goes. Please let me know your thoughts on all this, I’d love to hear from ya. Video is below, followed by the text.
No doubt life is full of challenges, [...]
Your Entrepreneurial Spawn
Recently I found myself going through a bit of a ‘thing’ – in a good way. Certain forces within the confines of the CitySquares fortress have forced me to think about some exciting opportunities on the road ahead, as well as some challenges that I’ve never had to face before. And just as I’ve had [...]
The Founder’s Quandary
After three and a half years running CitySquares, and after an additional six years running another company prior to CitySquares, I’ve learned quite a bit about starting a business and growing it. I had a bit of an epiphany a few days – I realized that I am in a quandary, caught between a rock [...]
Right Now…
Right now is the most important moment in your business.
Right now is the only chance you’ll have to have right now again.
Right now is the moment you’ll wish you had in a few minutes, a few days, or a few years.
Go thank a staff member for something they deserve a thanks for, right now.
Call that [...]
The Best and Worst of Being an Entrepreneur
Last evening I read an article in Inc. titled, “We Asked, You Twittered” and subtitled, “What’s the best part of owning your business?” The submissions were as follows:
Defining success. You set the goals, and you sit on both sides of the table at the performance review.
– Elizabeth Grace Saunders, Real Life E
Making the sale. No [...]
Check out CitySquares on Merchant Circle!
Today CitySquares got a voicemail from Merchant Circle.It’s not the first time either. Usually I just roll my eyes, shout something out to whoever is nearby for a laugh, and I move on. In fact, just about anything Merchant Circle does gets a similar reaction from me: roll of the eyes, wise-ass remark, laughter, move [...]
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Sixth Photo Meme
My friend Sooz tagged me in a little Interweb game called Sixth Photo Meme. Basically, Sooz went to her Flickr account, to her 6th page of pictures, and to the 6th picture on that page and then tagged me in the picture. Now although I’m not actually in the picture isn’t the point – the [...]
Off to ILM
Next week myself and Jason (account executive from CitySquares) are off to Santa Clara, CA for The Kelsey Group’s annual superbowl of all things local – ILM:08. This is a fantastic event that I’ve had the pleasure of attending in the past. The panels are excellents, the keynotes as well, but what I really like [...]
Local 1.0
I believe that this local search thing is quite early, and to keep up with the Jones’ I’ve started to refer to it as Local 1.0. Hear me out here, because I’m diving deep.
Web 1.0 was a passive web, about adoption and about moving to an interconnected digital medium, and Web 2.0 is very much [...]
iPhone 3G: One Month Later
So now that I’m a proud, card-carrying Mac dude, although a little embarrassed that it took me this long to see the light, it was inevitable that I was going to get the iPhone 3G. Last year when the first generation iPhone came out I was using a Blackberry Pearl, which I absolutely loved after [...]
Social Media is Mostly Noise
I’m a fan of social media, I am, but it’s noise. Like too much time in the subway, or at the airport, it’s just loud and mostly unpleasant noise. Yet somehow many of us us can’t help but get lured into some of it, like a drunk at a bar fight (I know, odd parallel [...]