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There are few things that get me fired up late at night like watching TED videos. For the uninitiated, TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and is a conference that takes place once a year. The videos from TED are shared free on their website, and the talks are enough to get you standing up [...]

The fabulous and enthusiastic crew from last week’s Escape from Cubicle Nation Workshop in London. Photo by the handsome and talented TMSRuge. I communicate on Twitter so frequently that I just realized some blog readers may not know that my last live Escape from Cubicle Nation workshop will take place on Wednesday, November 4 at [...]

Sitting in the Dallas airport after having spent the weekend speaking and participating in Milana Leshinsky’s Coaching Millions Super Summit, I watched Chris Brogan’s 3-part video series on Overnight Success and felt my heart melt. I related to so much of what he talked about, since I have spent so much time this summer on [...]

The beauty of dirty laundry

At the management conference I attended in Pärnu, Estonia last week, we had a speaker from Denmark, Morten Lund,  a long-time entrepreneur who had, among other things, made good money investing in Skype. As he launched into his presentation, he said: “I have founded over 88 startups. And at the moment, I am bankrupt.” Due [...]

I have been a fan of Gary Vaynerchuk for many years, enjoying his in-your-face enthusiasm and style on Wine Library TV and his own blog GaryVaynerchuk.com. Gary used social media, crazy hard work and heart to grow his Dad’s (successful) brick-and-mortar wine business from $4 million to $60 million in five years. He has been [...]

Spurred by some great emails and goading about my own pricing from friends and clients, I am really interested in doing a week-long series on my blog in November about pricing for small business. It is a topic that involves a lot of art and science, and tends to bring up many strong feelings and [...]

Photo of my special Atlanta Web workshop taken by Willie Jackson. See his complete set here! Happy Friday! Before I head into the weekend, I wanted to give you a quick update on the book tour. Dang, have I had a great summer! Me and longtime blog reader Mark Spieglan at Chicago workshop. I hit [...]

Two years ago today, I was waddling in circles in my neighborhood with a huge belly, hoping that either I would go into labor or pass out with enough exhaustion to finally get a good night’s rest. Thankfully, Angela Rose Slim was born later that evening. The two years since have been incredibly wonderful, action-filled, [...]