I was out to lunch with Jeremy Hanks today. He picked up an iPhone about a month ago and showed me all the cool features. Overall I was impressed with the iPhone. The mail app was way better than I thought it would be and so was Safari. I was really blown away by the quality […]
Last week was tough. It involved a lot of follow up, email, voicemail, etc. I was more than glad to hit Friday. A lot my frustrations stem from me feeling some of the basic fundamentals of business courtesy and communication have been forgotten. Here are some of my thoughts:
Try to return email within 24 hours. Disregard this suggestion if […]
My neighbor just loaned me Atlas Shrugged on CD. I’ve been listening to it in my car as I drive from place to place. The book is over 1000 pages long. With all the other books I’m reading Atlas would take up too much of my designated reading time. Books on CD or MP3 are great.
So […]
Here’s a list of books I’m currently reading:
Forgotten Fundamentals by Dan Clark
Lots of great nuggets of wisdom. Look for a blog post from me on this book in the near future.
The Better People Leader by Chuck Coonradt
My mentor has done it again! Chuck’s latest book (his 5th) is a real gem. I’m half way through and […]
Important notice: In the Summer of 2007, Speaking Roses filed for bankruptcy. The company’s intellectual property was acquired out of that bankruptcy by several of the former founders of Speaking Roses. Those founders then restarted the company as a new entity and are now trying to market Speaking Roses as a bizopp distributorship. Therefore, the Company discussed in the post below was the “old” […]
From Forbes - occupation plus annual mean wage for America’s best paying jobs:
Anesthesiologists - $184K
Surgeons - $184k
Obstetricians And Gynecologists - $178k
Orthodontists - $177k
Oral And Maxillofacial Surgeons - $165k
Internists, General - $161k
Prosthodontists - $159k
Psychiatrists - $150k
Family And General Practitioners - $150k
CEO - $145k
Physicians And Surgeons, All Other - $142k
Pediatricians, General - $141k
Dentists, General - $141k
Airline Pilots, […]
I’ll give you the end at the beginning: conventional wisdom is more guidelines than rules. Make your own rules. Here are some examples:
Don’t rock the boat
Rocking the boat has been the sole reason behind starting so many successful ventures including Apple and Playboy (no I don’t endorse pornography but thanks for wondering). If you rock the boat at […]
Thanks to Jeff Barson for inspiring this post with something similar that he blogged about today.
I was turned on to the Montana Meth Project after running across a story about the program on MSNBC. The project is funded mainly by a private high net worth citizen who was interested in helping bring out awareness of the […]
Last night my wife and went to the movies for the first time in a long time. We headed down to Provo to see the new Die Hard movie, which was good but not as good as Transformers (yeah, I’m a child of the 80’s). The movie started at 7:15. Well I should say that […]
I only skimmed over it briefly but this guy may have hit the nail on the head. The problem with social networks is that its too difficult to target the advertising thus they get a very low CPM on their ads. The author states:
“One of the dirty little secrets about the internet is that much […]
