Social media marketing IS marketing. The key is learning what tools are available and how to use them well.

Just as with a new instrument, the complexity of how and what you play comes with experience. Beautifully, there are few barriers—financial or otherwise—to picking up the basics. Do not wait to try your hand...

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Tags: Social Media, Marketing, Quote

As I recently bespattered from Grand Central to 56th street in the pouring rain I was struck by, among a plethora of other semi-gelatinous goobers, the spontaneous deconstruction of what I always accepted, for better or worse, as fundamental to the city--a system of New York social, financial and racial castes. Nonetheless, as I took cover within a small entranceway I found myself welcomed into an impromptu, incredibly demographically diverse caste made up of “have-nots”--have not umbrellas that is... Read More...

Tags: New York, City, Castes, Rain

This is NOT a mathematical post. That said, following is the nine thousand six hundred-eighty-ninth ’perfect’ number—a number that is the sum of all its positive factors (divisors), save itself.

So often I’ve heard friends articulate their desire to find perfection—in the perfect mate; in themselves; in their work. Arduous goals for adults, I’ve seen this desire for perfection tragically stifle children to the point of complete stagnation. The number below, and its seemingly arbitrary, albeit historical, theological characterization, only further begs the questions… Read More...

Tags: Perfection, Mathematics, Perfect

Stephen Covey, in the book First Things First recalls the following story that one of his associates experienced in a seminar. The original presenter of the story remains unknown. While some of you may already be familiar with its lessons, I’ve found it valuable to return to it now and then over my years. I hope you find the same... Read More...

Tags: Big, Rocks, Priorities

(Transliterated where appropriate.)

Can you find yours? (Hint: the originating language or people are in alphabetical order.)

Wliwni ni, Wliwni, Oliwni, Mantiox chawe, Maketai, Yuuminsame, Wapsaw, Thawerapsaw, Gadda ge, Dankie, Baie dankie, Ntyox teru’, Seé, Tsin’aen, Iyayraykere, Hioy’oy, Gui lah hui te ha, Gui lah hui mi a de, Gui lah hui dui dui ma, Ghu long khu me-ah, Gu lah hu ma de , Saeamat kimo, Alíila, Kano, Kanobi, Tá, Alíilamoolo, Kanoomoolo, Kanopalammoolo... Read More...

Tags: Thanks

A young student recently told me he wanted to be an astronaut when he grew up. I said, “That’s terrific! Where do you want to go?”

“I’m going to build a rocket and fly to the Sun!” he proudly exclaimed... Read More...

Tags: Education, Sun, ideas, Lesson