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What Are You Going To Do About It?

I’m thinking about going into the life-preserver business because every day I become more aware of how many people are drowning.  Then again, I might already be in that business since part of what I do as a consultant (or am I a lifeguard?) is to help my clients break free of the ocean of data that surrounds them.

English: A life preserver icon.

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Maybe you or someone you know is caught up in the same rip-tide – the one where you know more and more each day about your customers, your business, and how they interact and yet you struggle to use that information to advance your goals.  The good news is you’re not alone.  The bad news is you’re not alone. Continue reading

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Worst Foot Forward

If I was going to ask you to spend a good deal of money with me, I’d be smart to make sure you felt I was trustworthy and reasonably intelligent. Let’s say I’m trying to sell you a car, which is a pretty big expenditure. Would you buy a car from this man?If I was to reach out to you, I might do what I could to give off an image of reliability and stability – two things I’d like in a car as well as in the salesperson selling the vehicle. Which is why something I received in the mail yesterday is so baffling and yet so instructive and so I’m sharing it today. Continue reading

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Back To The Garden

Remember the song “Woodstock“? Joni Mitchell wrote it, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young made it famous. One lyric is

We are stardust, we are golden, we are caught in the devil’s bargain,
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden.

Woodstock

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I thought of that last night as I listened to an excellent discussion of Google+ and Facebook at the tech meet-up I attend monthly. What does one have to do with the other? Continue reading

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