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I’m so happy you stopped by.

Before we get too far into our new relationship,

I’d like to share my Vision for this blog with you:

I  passionately believe learning to effectively communicate online will help each of us to become the best version of ourselves stop

Every thought stop

Every concept stop

Every emotion stop

Every theory stop

Every tool stop

Every idea stop

Every relationship stop

Every discussion stop

Every understanding stop

Every small success helps us to more effectively deliver value to the family, friends, clients and connections that make our lives important stop

This blog is my journey to understanding value.  I don’t expect you to always share a similar opinion to mine, but what I do expect is for you to speak your mind whether in agreement and disagreement.

Over time this will transform from my journey to OUR JOURNEY and that’s when growth really begins…

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Purchase the The Social Tools on Amazon… It’s $2.99.  The Social Tools Book discusses the why and how of ten social tools that are essential to getting your blog found online (the now available 4th edition has two additional tools Pinterest and Yelp).

Below are a few articles that will give you a good feel for what this site has to offer:

My Favorites

• Write For Everyone and You Write To No One
• If You Work in Insurance, This Should Be the Only Article You Read on the Future of Social Media
• Why the First 9,999 Hours are the Most Important
• How Small Business Can Leverage Social Media to Fight Back Against Their Big Business Competitors
• Why I’m a Bad Salesman and Think You Should Be Too

Blogging

• 7 Reasons Your Small Business Needs a Business Blog – Part I
• The One Change I Made to Increase My Blog Traffic 37.5% in Two Weeks
• How My Experiment in SEO Will Change the Game on Small Business Blogging
• The Secret to a Successful Business Blog (And it’s not great content)
• Blogging is NOT Enough…
• 6 Reasons No One Connects with You in Social Media

A Couple More Good Ones

• Work, Work, Work… Does Not Lead to Success
• Search for Great Conversations
• Buy ME
• Why Time Warner Cable Only Cares if You Complain: A Customer Service FAIL Story