13Jul

What Makes Start-up’s Different from Traditional Business and Why You Should Think Like One.

I am regularly amazed at how difficult some companies make it to business with them, or simply get a taste of their product or service. Traditional businesses are terrified a potential customer/client will find a way to take advantage of them; a way to skirt their beloved system and get something for free. They setup [...]

22Mar

Effective Communication with Social Media

On March 9th, I had the pleasure of speaking to over 200 new home sales and real estate professionals at SMC SalesCamp. My assigned topic was “Effective Communication with Social Media.”
The videos below contain my full presentation.
In this presentation, I was able to introduce the concept of Lead Curation – Creating an environment conducive to growing connections [...]

29Dec

Are you Sharing Enough? Presentations, Video, Content, etc

Upon reviewing 2009, and planning for 2010, I realized I want to be sharing more content than I have in the past. I rarely get the opportunity to write as much as I like (and that’s a goal, too), but mainly I thought about the volume of media I’ve produced over the last year – [...]

22Sep

Its all the Newspapers’ Fault!

I’ve used this video in more than one presentation, as I find it to be a great reminder of how far the Internet has come in a very short time. This video from 1981 shows some very early methods of transferring data, unbelievably, launched by the major newspapers! One wonders whether the papers would have [...]