The Real Blind Influence

Ted Kennedy’s Massachusetts senate seat is filled by conservative Republican Scott Brown so “Americans are sending a message.”  In a word, No.
Obama was elected after President Bush & Congress bankrupted the country with an unnecessary war, corporate welfare (which Clinton did too, by the way), and laws favoring the 1% of wealthiest Americans so “Americans [...]

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If you liked the SocialNomics video, then you’ll love this.  Where the SocialNomics video laid out how the social media revolution has been like a snowball rolling down a hill, this video shares specific cases of how entrepreneurs, and businesses like Ford, Volkswagen and Burger King, have drastically grown their businesses through influencer marketing.
If you [...]

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Today I made a knucklehead move.  It’s not a horrible life threatening condition, but it’s annoying when the symptoms flair up.
This morning I was  sitting at Denver International Airport, home to the demonically evil blue horse.
Why was I sitting there?  Because I was attempting to fly on the second busiest air traffic day of the [...]

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One of the decisions that has consistently altered my life to be better was the choice to surround myself with people that are smarter and more interesting than myself.
I’m fortunate to live in a city full of smart, fun and creative people. This makes it easier to never be the smartest person in the room, [...]

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There was a New York Times article a week or so ago profiling a guy who made $300 in a hour by tweeting about M&Ms.  Since I waited to write this, I can’t find the article, but he has was averaging $3,000 a week doing promotions like this.
So is it wrong to get paid to [...]

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In 1990 I was 22 and hired as the National Promotion Director for Radioactive/MCA Records.  We had just signed a band called Public Affection.  Soon after a name change to ‘Live,‘ the release of a single called “Pain Lies on The Riverside,” and the video making an impact at Mtv (yes, kids, Mtv actually had [...]

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The conversation about social media, Twitter and Facebook is the wrong one to have, even though it’s the one most people are having.  It is now a normal everyday action to connect on the real time social web the same way you share with friends on the phone or by email; only now one action [...]

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I recently had a meeting with the other two founders of Oxstein Design Labs to get our messaging together before we launch a lot of what we’re doing to the world. We already have great partners and interested clients that are helping us to create our initial offerings which is nice place to start.
A big [...]

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Hi, I’m Brett Greene and I have ‘blogger’s guilt.’  Unlike ‘Catholic guilt,’ where you feel guilty about what you’ve done, ‘blogger’s guilt’ comes from feeling guilty about what you haven’t done.  Namely, posting on your blog often enough.
Even though I post on Twitter almost incessantly, I’ve lived with Blogger’s guilt ever since I started this [...]

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Magical thinking can kill you. Now it’s been proven. After James Arthur Ray, self proclaimed ’self help expert’ and one of the stars of the book and movie The Secret charged 70 participants $9,933 each to attend a sweat lodge event, two died, 19 went to the hospital and the ‘law of attraction‘ [...]

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