Recently, my wife and I celebrated our tenth Valentine’s Day.  It so happens, I was also just in the middle of printing some new business cards with GreenerPrinter. Whether you are redoing your own business cards or trying to redeem yourself from a Valentine’s Day massacre, here’s an analogy between the two that can help. First, [...]

Do you have an itch to buy that new mountain bike or purse?   Or do you often have that never ending worry about turning off the oven?  Maybe you were just in the middle of a panic attack that you were late for a flight and broke a land speed record sprinting across the [...]

Our online world is a happy go lucky place.  You can’t throw a stick at it without hitting a “Like”, “Tweet”, “Check-in”, “Thumbs Up” or “Share” button. Facebook has “Likes” … why not “Dislikes”?  Some bloggers like the idea, other’s don’t. It was my nephew’s first birthday party in St. Louis last weekend.  So I started [...]

At work, I oversee a portfolio of web projects.  Maybe you’re an IT person reading this and you know all about project portfolio management.  PPM for short.  Like most people in the world, you’re probably thinking, “Who the hell cares?”  PPM?  Pages per minute?  Parts per million?  Only rich stock market traders and artists have portfolios.  [...]

For those used to my regular posts applying some abstract analogy to some business or personal lesson, I promise to get back on track next week.  This week’s post applies the old school business idea of SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) to social media. On November 15, I attended a Social Media Club [...]

If you are just tuning in, this is Day 3 of 3 of our resolution for Inbox Zero.  Here’s how this New Year’s resolution got started. Here is my final tally of “Deletes, Delegates, Responds, Defers and Dos” using our Inbox Zero Tracking Spreadsheet. Welcome to Day 3. 8:43am. Checking my blackberry at a red light.  I stop [...]