Question for you?

Are you leveraging technology for your maximum benefit?

This one person is acting as a full orchestra.

Tools. Practice. Willingness. Performance. 

How can you use the technology that you have access to…

• keep in touch with more people
• increase your productivity
• communicate better with clients and customers
• be better organized
• promote our products and services
• get better information

These are real situations that there are technology leveraged solutions that do exist.

The real question is: Are we using the resources that we have available to us?

Enjoy…

As I viewed this video in the wee hours of the morning, I was struck by the collaboration and combination that the embrace of technology has spawned within the arts community. Because of the internet and social media technologies, dance moves from one part of the world are easily shared elsewhere. Thus an acceleration of the evolution of dance as we know it.

Moving the art form to levels that we have not seen before. This is spectacular to watch.

This is the true use of technology as it used to create new movement and expression. This is the highest and best use of media.

In this short video I saw:

• value exchange
• emotional response
• years of dedicated practice
• self discipline to perfect a craft

Manipulation of space, time and energy are within the realm of quantum physics but are part of the vocabulary of dance. Amazing and intriguing.

What I also observed was dance styles that are from the 70’s still being practiced and refined and taken to new levels of control and perfection.

Alot of implications here…

Like when was the last time, you got up from your computer and really interacted with people?

Hmmm….

Enjoy.

This is an interesting video that is still valid. How can you position yourself and your business based on trend thinking?

Social media is part of the getting ideas into the marketplace.

Ideas are cheap. Ideas are everywhere. You just had another idea.  In fact, as you are reading this you will get a few new ones.

You can be inspired by anything. The key is what you do with the ideas that you or others have.  Innovation is the buzzword these days… but to truly innovate, someone has to build it and make it work.

In short, an idea that is not executed is nothing but a fleeting flash of brilliance.

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Are you creating noise or productive thoughts with the conversations that you are participating in?

What tools are you using to listen to the effects of the conversations that are you are creating?

Are the conversations that you are creating valuable?

Are they meaningful?

Are they productive or supporting productivity?

To whom are your conversation valuable?

How do you know?

What is your metric?

Just something to ponder as you create and add sounds (called conversations) to your marketplace.

By David Bullock

Are you leveraging your efforts and managing your time with regard to your social media marketing and networking?

This simple question comes from the following client observations:

• Plenty of traffic with no revenue.
• Plenty of content with no revenue.
• Great rankings with no revenue.
• Beautifully designed website with no revenue.
• Huge followerships with no revenue.
• Large networks with no revenue.

So here are a few of the questions that I ask…

• Do you have a strategy for your content?
• Are you making headway in terms of leads, conversions and sales?
• Are you just creating and posting content for the sake of posting content?
• Are you just online and now using this thing called “social media” because it just sounds like a good idea?

In your social media productivity mix you have…

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Sometime you need to sit back and analyze what you are doing with your business.  There is a whole area of activity that can suck up time and funds without the business owner truly being aware of the drain it can have on your bottom line.  I called this activity “Non-Revenue Generating Actions”

As a business owner, you can easily get caught up in doing things that don’t make any money for your business. Usually we classify things like:

• getting the mail
• paying bills
• paperwork
• building websites
• answering email or the phone

as things that need to be outsourced and not “important” for a business owner to handle. The craze right now is to outsource everything. That is fine, if you are outsourcing the

• right things
• to the right people
• for the right projects.

But there is a bigger hole in your business that is beyond outsourcing. It is the thinking that chooses the projects that you work on.

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This is such a wonderful time to be in business. The economy has laid bare business models that are outdated and don’t work anymore.

Just yesterday, I scheduled a meeting at a restaurant, and what did we find?  The business was closed. So we jumped in the car to go to the next place. It was closed, too. Then I looked back at the mall that was behind me. The parking lot was deserted. Could these businesses have used all of the channels available to them to get people to want to interact with them?  At least they could have tried and gone down swinging.

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Face the facts. There is no way to manage time itself.  You can't move 2pm to 9am just because you want to. You can't stretch an hour by 5 minutes. Oh, but I wish I could. And I bet that if you had the "magic power" you would manipulate time too. Management means that you can move things around and rearrange things. This is so not the case with time. It is what it is. A minute is a minute and they are whizzing by right now. The video below will give you a framework to think about time in a new way. This is two minutes well spent.

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Realtime connectivity. Twitter is an ever evolving tool. It is more than just 140 characters. This is a true communication network. Twitter as a media is still growing. And, the "use cases" continue to grow.

How will this tool will be used in the future? Who knows…

I think you will find this video interesting.

Enjoy…

David Bullock