Do You Talk Too Much?
July 18th , 2010
Talking…AND Listening – The 2 Parts of Conversation
We’ve all experienced this person at one time or another. You know, that guy or gal who drones on and on with zero awareness of the interest level of the person that they’re talking to. Lord knows, I’m sure that I’ve been this person at one time or another, and I would venture to guess that almost all of us have been too.
Category : Blog & Good Business & Web Wisdom
8 Tips for Overcoming Web-Technophobia
July 11th , 2010
Besides costing you money, there are other disadvantages to handing over the reigns to someone else every time you need to do things like change a phone number on your web site or make a quick online video.
Avoiding learning new technologies means you could very well lose the opportunity to infuse your individual personality into your digital communications. In this new business landscape, standing out from the ever-increasing online crowd means balancing the efficiency of powerful technology with authentic human relationships.
If the thought of updating your blog or adding a PayPal button to your web site leaves you stricken with the fear of God, here are some suggestions to help you claim your digital independence:
Category : Blog & Cool Tools & Good Business & Web Wisdom
Web Wisdom #3 – Vince Lombardi & Napoleon Hill
March 21st , 2010
Inches make champions.
- Vince Lombardi
While laying one’s plans for online fame and fortune, it’s very easy to come up with ambitious and daunting plans for a massive web project which oftentimes is so ambitious and daunting that it just-plain never gets done.
And while I’m tossing quotes around, how’s about this one?:
Guessing instead of knowing destroys persistence.
- Napoleon Hill
Category : Blog & Web Wisdom
Web Wisdom #2 – Benjamin Franklin
March 14th , 2010
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Back in the prehistoric days of the internet, you know, like, circa 2003, the de-facto purpose of a web site was to serve as an online brochure whose main purpose was to proclaim to the world, “Look how great we are!“
Fast forward to now, and we’re still seeing most web sites continuing along that well-worn path of the digital flyer. Sure, an online flyer is relatively easy to create and requires little-to-zero upkeep aside from the occasional change of phone number or email address. But once our static brochure web site is live for the world to see, the next question becomes…“so why can’t I find my site on Google?”
And the collective answer from Mighty Cyberspace bellows (or perhaps it croons a la Janet Jackson), “what have you done for me lately?“
Category : Blog & Web Wisdom
Web Developers: Take 20 Seconds to be of Service
February 28th , 2010
Even if you’ve been living in a cave, you know full-well how tough the economy has been on jobs over the past couple of years.
However, one group that doesn’t seem to be suffering from this shortage of jobs is the workforce of web developers, and really, computer programmers in general.
Is this because we’re just so smart and have everything figured out? As much as some developers would like to think so, the answer is a highly recursive NO.
The way I see it is that our field is just plain less competitive than that of our non-programmer colleagues. The demand for folks who know how to muckety-muck with code is way greater than the number of deranged souls who actually enjoy sitting in a dark room all day (and night) fiddling with functions and hashes and overflow:hiddens and….are we asleep yet?
Category : 2-Minute Tips & Blog & Good Business & Web Wisdom
Web Wisdom #1 – Lao Tzu
February 20th , 2010
When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
–Lao Tzu
Sure, we’ve all checked out the work of our “competitors” at one point or another – hoping to find a “chink in the armor” so that we can feel better about what it is we do. Or perhaps we look at our so-called competitors’ amazing website and think, “man, there’s no way I could come up with something that great…”
And when you’re first starting to take your business or your passion online, it’s natural to see things in the context of competition and scarce rewards for a select few (don’t worry, I’m not going to go into a “Law of Attraction” tangent here). However, I do have to say that the term “competitor” is becoming so outmoded for me that I can’t even type it into a blog post without surrounding it in quotes, or prefacing it with “so-called.” Have I ever allowed myself to be intimidated by someone else’s level of skill or success before? Umm….YEAH! Anyone who tells you they’ve never compared themselves with anyone else is almost certainly simply engaging in a not-so-subtle form of egoic competition with you.
Category : Blog & Web Wisdom
