All Posts Tagged With: "networking"

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Tribes: Take Me to Your Leader

According to Seth Godin: A tribe consists of like-minded individuals connected to an idea. They have active members but membership is voluntary. Tribes are not created by converting people. They are not closed off or Isolated. Members of the tribe aren’t blind Sheep, they are evangelists. Tribes don’t necessarily do [...]

9Jul2009 | Mark Petticord | Comments | Continued
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More Doctors Prefer Camel Cigarettes

A1943 court case stated the FDA’s purpose for review of labels and promotional material is to “protect the public and the vast multitude which includes the ignorant, the unthinking and the credulous who, when making a purchase do not stop to analyze.”  I guess the Doctors of the 40s were ignorant, unthinking and credulous [...]

22Mar2009 | Mark Petticord | Comments | Continued
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Elevator Speeches Stink!

In 22 years of building networks,  I’ve never delivered an elevator speech. Resorting to holding a complete stranger captive while subjecting them to a thirty seconds of verbal torture  in a fifty square foot steel box that’s plummeting down thirty floors has never been appealing to me.  I think most people would rather endure a [...]

19Mar2009 | Mark Petticord | Comments | Continued
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Incite a Blogging Riot! Web 2.0 Future Trends

I started my trek into Cyberspace back in 1999 when I attended an Internet marketing conference. I spent $5000 to hear from 20 of the Internet gurus of the 20th Century. I went away with 150 pounds of books, three-ring binders, and believe it or not cassette tapes. You think they would have just given me a link to their websites??? I still haven’t read or listened to all the materials I collected at that conference ten years ago. I was more confused and frankly overwhelmed when I left than when I arrived! It’s taken me almost ten years to recover.

5Mar2009 | Mark Petticord | Comments | Continued
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