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Best Buy and The Asinine Argument…

29 June 2011

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To say I am unhappy with my recent experience with Best Buy is an epically understated understatement. But I will relay the information calmly and fairly, because I believe that this particular manager is absolutely wrong, and frankly do not believe that what she passed on as policy is in fact policy. On Sunday afternoon, [...]

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Day 2 of No More Buying Coffee…

24 June 2011

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Today is Day 2 of No More Buying Coffee. Why, you ask? Well, you see, last Saturday morning, my rough and tumble Lenovo notebook died. Well, in tribute to The Princess Bride, it was only mostly dead. But the laptop is my lifeblood, so I need a replacement. Another custom-configured Lenovo looked like it would [...]

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Business Networking vs Social Media…

14 May 2011

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Been plugging along on this post over past week or so…hope it’s at least somewhat coherent. For years, even before starting my own business, I’d been invited to and even visited different business networking groups. And as a disclaimer, I will readily admit that I have not been to all types, and that some groups [...]

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Failure *Is* An Option…

16 February 2011

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Despite those people (and some churches, if we’re going to be honest) that preach success, life is full of failures. It’s a necessary part of life, and it’s how we learn, how we improve, how we grow. I don’t know about you, but I fail daily. Without fail. It’s not that my schedule is planned [...]

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My Reasons for Self-Employment (Part 2)

11 February 2011

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This reason is one of the most fundamental: so that I can make my own mistakes. You see, when you work for someone else, you are following their way of doing things. Sometimes these ways are good, but often times they are ill-conceived, based off factors from years past, or are simply without basis and [...]

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My Reasons for Self-Employment (Part 1)

10 February 2011

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This will–obviously by the title–be a multi-part series. I haven’t pre-written, so I can’t yet say how many parts. Except to say more than one. I have a lot of reasons why I went to work for myself. Here’s one: to teach my kids that there is an alternative to what’s being presented “out there”. [...]

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All Riled Up…

9 February 2011

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Read a blog post this morning that got me a little fired up…no, not in the cheerleader ra-ra kind of way either. It’s a business post entitled Why micro businesses will never fully succeed. The post defined a micro business as one that is 1-3 people and under $250,000 in revenue. In other words, me [...]

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Yep, I’m Only Human

13 January 2011

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Yesterday was one of those days. I don’t have many days like it, and far fewer still where a member of a client’s staff gets to me, but yesterday it happened. It’s very rare–I’m known as being cool, calm, collected, and focused on solving the issue(s) at hand. But this staff member injected far too [...]

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