Posted on October 5, 2009 by Jeff
Okay, I’ll just come out and say it. It’s been really hard to Find My Strongest Anything lately. There have been two deaths in my family in the last week, yesterday my one and only laptop hard drive crashed (I’m on a borrowed one now) and, I realized just moments ago that this review is actually due [...]
Filed under: Books, Publishing, Reviews | Tagged: free, life, Marcus Buckingham, strenghts, Strong Life Test, Thomas Nelson, women | 6 Comments »
Posted on September 29, 2009 by Jeff
If you watched a movie about a guy who wanted a Volvo and worked for years to get it, you wouldn’t cry at the end when he drove off the lot, testing the windshield wipers. You wouldn’t tell your friends you saw a beautiful movie or go home and put a record on to think [...]
Filed under: Books, Publishing, Reviews | Tagged: A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, Donald Miller | 34 Comments »
Posted on September 25, 2009 by Jeff
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of sitting in on a presentation made my Chris Brogan. Through Thursday you can purchase a DVD of the event. Christine Taylor and JTMar partnered with Stage Post Studios to not only make Chris available in person to several hundred Nashvillians, but they also streamed the event online, including incorporating [...]
Filed under: Books, Branding, Business, Marketing, Social Media, Twitter, Web 2.0 | Tagged: Chris Brogan, Christine G Taylor, common sense, JTMar, Julien Smith, Social Media, Stage Post Productions, Trust Agents | 7 Comments »
Posted on August 31, 2009 by Jeff
I’m as excited as I’ve been in a long time. 88.7 WAY-FM is partnering with Chaffee Management Group to bring author Donald Miller to Nashville to speak in November. He’s probably best known for his New York Times best-selling book Blue Like Jazz.
As a book review blogger for Thomas Nelson Publishers, I also confirmed today [...]
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Posted on April 27, 2009 by Jeff
The Noticer: Sometimes, all a person needs is a little perspective.
by Andy Andrews
Thomas Nelson Publishers
In a matter of minutes, Jones, as he prefers to be called (no “Mr.” just Jones), can completely disarm the most stubborn stranger he encounters with little more than a few probing questions and several common sense, but often profound, [...]
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Posted on April 26, 2009 by Jeff
If you’re anything like me, you pretty much suck at noticing your surroundings. Any time my wife makes a change to something within our home (a new wall hanging, rearranged furniture, a different brand of toothpaste even), it usually requires her pointing it out to me. Let’s just say I’ve missed my share of “Your [...]
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Posted on January 24, 2009 by Jeff
One of my favorite books of the last few years is easily Pyromarketing by Greg Stielstra. In it, he outlines the four main steps in the viral marketing process.
Gather the driest tender
Light it with a match
Fan the flames
Save the coals
In this post, I’d like to highlight step two in particular. It involves the concept of [...]
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