Have you even found an old box, and as you go through the box you remember the things that were happening when you were accumulating those items?

Finally, I did an inventory last week and unearthed at least 5 years worth of unreleased content. Notes, ebooks, videos, mindmaps, old courses etc.

This stuff has been sitting on eight hard drives for the last several years.

Let me tell you what this stuff is…

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I have been very quiet over the last several months for a few reasons.  If you noticed after we blueprinted the whole Obama Marketing Campaign, I stopped blogging, I stopped tweeting, I stopped e-mailing, I stopped Facebooking…

Just stopped all of it… Why?

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Contrary to popular advertising and marketing beliefs, you can’t sell a future that people don’t want or need anymore. The Obama Campaign was promoting a future that the people wanted. People wanted the future, thus they promoted the story and in the end acted to fulfill the story.

Social media are like the wind. It is there. You can see it moving. And more importantly, you see the effects. Social media are all about developing and engaging in consistent intentional conversations around relevant content within a meaningful context within an eager community.

Yes, that is a mouthful. If you look at that statement at a surface level you will most likely continue to advertise and market in the same manner that you have for years, and you will get the same dwindling results. However, with a true operating understanding of new media, that statement above not only sounds impressive; it is actionable and measurable.

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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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A merging of mobile technology, communication and data retrieval is becoming a reality. This is an amazing mobile computing demonstration. (See Below)

• Total Mobile Data Accessibility
• Cost Effective
• Made from already existing mobile technology

This is a merging of several major spaces:

• Wireless
• Mobile Data Retrieval
• Human Machine Interface
• Social Networking

Mobile technologies for:

• Data retrieval
• Decision Making
• Recommendations

The implications for human machine interactions is moving rapidly to a new level of innovation and usability.

So the question becomes how does this impact your business?

Simple Answer: If your data is not on the web, if you have not created the proper relevant and tagged story that is accessible to the user, you will be shut out of that marketing channel. Further, the data itself will not be of value because it will be available everywhere instantaneously.

The use of the data for decision making is rapidly becoming the valuable commodity.

 

 

  

Until next time,

David Bullock

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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By David Bullock

These days we're all trying to make more out of less.  The bad economy is hitting us hard, the holidays strain our wallets, and every nickel and dime or trick of the trade is enlisted to help fight this financial battle.

With that in mind, Jerry West and I have put together a report that will help you use every possible advantage when it comes to making the most of opportunities when you have fewer resources available.

In the holiday spirit we're offering this report for free.  There is nothing for sale, and there are no strings attached.   This is the report that could help you get through these tough times.  Go on over to SEORainmaker.com and get your copy.

We send all best wishes for the holidays to you and yours.

By David Bullock

Full explanation of the internet. I am always looking for basic information for the media channel I am working in and with. I ran across this video that gives one of the best descriptions of the so-called “cloud”.

Cuts thought the mystery and answers basic internet questions:

• How does the internet work?
• What is the internet really?
• Why does the internet work?
• What are the differences in online media distribution?
• How can the internet handle video and audio?
• How is the internet evolving with the advances in broadband?

By David Bullock

Online information overload is a problem that few of us think about, but we feel the affects of it every day.

I got a lesson in TMI (Too Much Information) yesterday. As I was watching my little one read, she reminded me of the importance of learning what is important and useful in the information-gathering process.

To make a long story very short, while reading a passage in a book, my daughter got upset. As I asked her what was going on she said, “I just read for five minutes and they could have told me the whole story in 30 seconds.” Immediately, I taught her how to scan for important information using a “keyword-like” method.

And of course this got me thinking…

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A 3D Internet Browser That Works – David Bullock

I just ran across this new application for searching called SpaceTime. I have been exploring alternative browser interfaces for years, looking for a browser that would do the following:

• Remember automatically where I was and what I was looking at.
• Give me a “space” to search the internet in a non linear fashion.
• Let me use search as a tool to find the exact information that I want quickly.
• Give me a true 3D experience while browsing.

SpaceTime does this and much more. 

It creates a “space” for your online experience that gives you room to explore the internet through all media.

It is a fascinating application that I look forward to using for years to come. Every now and then an application is created that truly creates a new user experience. This is one of those applications. Check it out. I think you will be very impressed.