My first attempt at being an Entrepreneur, Age 10 lol

July 26th, 2011

tom My first attempt at being an Entrepreneur, Age 10 lolGrowing up on a small farm in Indiana gives you a lot of time to think and be creative. My thinking always leaned towards how to make money. Especially since the annual Fireman’s Festival was coming up and I needed money to play those games! So I had an idea, let’s sell vegetables!

Sometimes as an entrepreneur you can get so excited about the potential you forget a lot of the planning, “cart before the horse” as they say. So goes my story…

Luckily my friend Michael was there so I told him my plan and how he could help me get this business started. So we both went out to the garden and picked as many vegetables as we could carry: zucchini, green beans, corn and tomatoes. As little kids you can imagine we weren’t able to carry that much but we were determined to get our business started as fast as possible. Now we had our products but still needed marketing. So I grabbed a large poster board and wrote: “Vegetables For Sale” with a big arrow, easy enough! We also needed to setup shop, so I grabbed a large card table and lawn chairs from the garage. After several trips carrying the vegetables, card table and chairs to the small intersection of our gravel road we were ready for business! Proudly we displayed our total of about 10 random vegetables ready for purchase.

Michael and I walked down the long gravel road with our poster board, hammer and nails in hand. Fifteen minutes later we finally made it to the end and proudly hammered up our sign. As we are walking back to our shop we notice lots of cars start whizzing by and realized they were ready to buy our vegetables! Too bad no one was there to sell them, haha. So we start running down the gravel road to our vegetable shop to make a sale!

As you can imagine the shoppers were probably expecting a lot more vegetables then our little stock of 10 random ones. Luckily they appreciated our small effort and ended up buying a few. It was one of our proudest accomplishments and we learned what we needed to do to sell more next time!

Best Regards,

Michelle Hummel

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Weekly Case Study: Volkswagen – Fox no Planeta Terra – Twitter Zoom – English

July 26th, 2011

Volkswagen decided to sponsor the Planeta Terra Festival (big music fest in São Paulo) as it was a great opportunity to bring their trendy car, the Fox, closer to city’s youth. See how the company used Social Media to promote.

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Daily Advice: Become What You Want To Attract

July 23rd, 2011

happy Daily Advice: Become What You Want To Attract
Your life is the sum creation of everything that you have thought, felt, and done over the years. You are either enjoying the rewards of your efforts, or you are paying a penance for them. Either way, if you want your life to change, then learn how to become the person who attracts the life that you want to live!

One of the hardest things for people to swallow when they think about improving their lives is that they are the cause for where their life is at this moment in time.

We tend to consider our lives as the culmination of years and years worth of thoughts, emotions, and experiences, which is true. However, when looking back on our lives in those terms, we normally miss the fact that we were responsible for every single one of the moments in our life, up to and including this very moment.

It may seem like there have been people, circumstances, and events in our lives that were out of our control, but that is simply not the case. When you embrace the truth about the Law of Attraction, you must embrace the ENTIRE truth. The entire truth is that we attract all things into our lives – the good, as well as the bad.

Each person will have their own version of how this concept has manifested in their lives, but here are 3 common examples to illustrate the point.

Relationships

This is probably the most common area where people attract exactly what they are looking for, but they are also very often blind to the fact that they have done so.

It is hard to swallow if you are in an abusive relationship that you somehow wanted to be in that relationship. It is difficult to believe that if your significant other was unfaithful that you somehow played a part in making that happen. It is hard to grasp the fact that you can’t find “the right person” because on some level you either don’t really want to, or – most commonly – you don’t really even know who that person would be.

Career

Most people are either participating in a career that they don’t enjoy, or they are not getting everything that they want out of their career. It could be a matter of not liking your job, not making enough money, or simply not enjoying your co-workers. Whatever your individual issue is with your career, the fact of the matter is that on some level you are holding onto that situation. You are attracting the very things that you don’t want out of your professional life.

Health

This issue is so far out in the open for all to see, yet people routinely walk right past it without realizing the truth.

If you are unhealthy or overweight, it is because you somehow believe that you are SUPPOSED to be unhealthy or overweight. On an energetic level you are sending out the vibration that you are sick, or that you weigh too much, or that you are weak. It may be because you believe that you don’t deserve to live a long and healthy life. It may be that your self-esteem isn’t where it should be – even if you think on the surface that it is, which is often the case.

Each of these instances – relationships, career, and health – have their own solutions as far as how to stop attracting what you don’t want. However, the bottom line is that you have to first realize that you ARE attracting what you don’t want, and that is a hard pill to swallow.

Do some soul-searching about the things in your life that are not where you want them to be, and ask yourself some hard questions, while demanding some 100% honest answers:

Do you believe that – despite your bravado – that you might not be worthy of the “perfect mate”?

Do you think that even though you have a great work ethic, that you really aren’t smart or talented enough to have a high paying job, or to have the job of your dreams?

Do you honestly believe that you resonate a presence of perfect health, vitality, confidence, and self-esteem?

These questions are just examples, and you should give some thought to similar situations in your own life. Ask yourself if you are attracting the life that you desire, or if you are thinking one thing, but feeling something else entirely.

The bottom line truth of the matter is that we attract our entire lives, even the things about our lives that we do not like. If you want to stop attracting certain things into your life, then you need to Become what you want to Attract.

If you want a long-term, successful relationship full of compassion, love, and kindness, then find ways to express those same emotions to others – even to people who you have no interest in developing a relationship with.

If you desire a high-paying “dream job” then start acting like an employee who deserves that type of job. Don’t just become a good worker – become a good thinker and a good dreamer.

If your life is lacking in the health and fitness arena, then start exercising and eating right, and start thinking positive, grateful, and caring thoughts every single day. Your body and your mind will transform automatically as a result.

Stop complaining about what your life is NOT. Become the person who deserves and resonates with the kind of life that you desire, and that life will be presented to you.

Guaranteed.

 

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Weekly Case Study: Mercurial Superfly: The Machine

July 19th, 2011

Zlatan Mercurial turns to Social Media to promote himself on Facebook. Great concept!

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Weekly Case Study: Facebook Blood Groups – Turning like into life

July 12th, 2011

Largest online pool of blood donors just one click away from receiving urgent requests in case of emergency.

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How To Embed A Google+ 1 Button To Your Website

July 12th, 2011

g How To Embed A Google+ 1 Button To Your WebsiteGoogle? wants to see a +1 button on each Web page, but many people hate embedding widgets and buttons because they clutter pages and add hundreds of milliseconds to the page loading time.

Google is obsessed with speed and performance, but it didn’t do a good job at optimizing the code for embedding +1 buttons. As Aaron Peters explains, Google’s code blocks page loading if you place it inside the <head> tag, so it’s better to place it before you close the <body> tag. An even better idea is to load the Google +1 script in a non-blocking way, just like Google did with Google Analytics, AdSense and Google Related Links.

Aaron also noticed that the JavaScript code is not minified, browsers can only cache the JavaScript file for 6 minutes and there’s a mistake in the code from this page: “http” should be replaced with “https” to avoid an unnecessary redirect.

Here’s a better embedding code suggested by Aaron:

<!-- Place this tag just before your close body tag -->
<script>
(function(d, t) {
var g = d.createElement(t),
s = d.getElementsByTagName(t)[0];
g.async = true;
g.src = 'https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js';
s.parentNode.insertBefore(g, s);
})(document, 'script');
</script>

<!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render -->
<g:plusone></g:plusone>

Apparently, the code doesn’t work in Blogger by default. There’s a workaround, but you shouldn’t use it if you aren’t familiar with HTML and editing Blogger’s template. Basically you can replace <b:include data=’blog’ name=’all-head-content’/> with the code generated by Blogger (“view source” is your friend), then delete: <meta content=’blogger’ name=’generator’/>.

As Google explains, “most browsers will load the code in parallel with other scripts on the page, thus reducing the web page load time”.

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Weekly Case Study: The Social Network Evolution

July 5th, 2011

The timeline of Social Media from 2004 thru today!

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