Travel for Success – Overnight Success
And for our next installment of the Overnight Success series, let’s talk about travel. Success doesn’t come to your door. You have to go find it. Here’s a quick note about that. Can’t see the video? Click here.

Gift Ideas 2009
Last year, I put together a little Amazon gift store of ideas for people, and I got great feedback. The idea was something along the lines of, “if someone I know is into all this social media stuff and the whole web space, what would they want?” Here are my gift ideas for 2009 for you to get for other nice folks on your holiday shopping list. (I already own these things. That’s why I can recommend them). Gifts range from stocking stuffers to “oh, I can’t believe you bought that for me” level in price. Note that there are 3 categories in the sidebar: books, gear, and DVDs/Music. Click

How to Use Your Blog for Stock Answers
There are lots of things you have to answer more than once as a business (or even as an individual). In the book Trust Agents, Julien and I write about “putting it on paper,” which means using the web to leverage the “answer once, share often” kinds of advice and information that people might need from you. I do this more and more often. Here are a few examples of “stock” answers I share with

Spam is a Perception- Mine
I just unsubscribed to another six email marketing newsletters that I never subscribed to in the first place. Because I comment on a lot of marketing blogs, I seem to get signed up to a lot of their newsletters, without my consent and without my opting in. I’m not sure (I’d have to ask my personal email marketing pros, D.J. Waldow or Christopher S. Penn), but I’d imagine that’s illegal. And if it’s not,

Social Media Needs To Become a Team Sport
I watched a few football games on my cross-country flight yesterday. What I came away with was the realization of just how important the entire team is to the game. I watched several situations where a player caused his team some grief or heartache by making a poor choice or by executing poorly on a goal. I also saw the absolute chain of command that reaches all the way from an active owner, to the head coach, to the quarterback, and down into the entire team. No one in the system makes a decision independent