Dear Kid— We just dropped you off at college. Your mom and I left a bit teary eyed just like we did when you went off to kindergarten. This time it’s different. We know you will never really be home again. It is a big life transition. Heck, we may even turn your room into [...]
Archive for August, 2008
How To Run a No-Cost, Company-Wide Contest
Posted in August 27th, 2008
We try hard to create awesome company-wide contests and events. For example, our June contest, the JobDig Summer Olympics, chronicled here as the Best Sales Contest Ever, was such an event…well-planned, executed, and a ton of fun. It was enormously successful, as measured by almost any metric. At the other end of the contest spectrum [...]
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Back To School. Or Not.
Posted in August 26th, 2008
Remember 5th grade? Might have been 6th, who can really remember? Back then, kids were split into two groups—those who cared and those who didn’t. Kids who cared were organized, had new pencils, and even new dividers in brand new notebooks. The kids who didn’t care couldn’t find homeroom, didn’t get signed up for the [...]
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Why Depending on a New Website is Not the Answer.
Posted in August 26th, 2008
Over at US NEWS today, I bring up the issue that keeps sales and marketing, as well as the CEO, awake at night. It is far too easy, and commonplace, to think that a new website will solve business issues and problems. It won’t for some very real reasons. Do you agree?
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Which ‘Sport’ is Not in the ’08 Olympics? And, Some Recommendations for the Future.
Posted in August 23rd, 2008
Pick one of the following sports which is not in the Olympics: 1. BMX racing 2. Taekwondo, (kick boxing) 3. Synchronized Diving 4. Air Hockey 5. Kayak, flat water Note: We have now heard that baseball and softball will not be in the 2012 Olympics. What we have not heard about are the sports that [...]
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Ten Ten Things I Learned Driving Across the USA So You Don’t Have To.
Posted in August 22nd, 2008
by admin in Work-related
I just got back from a ten-day vacation from seeing friends and family on the East Coast. Don’t ask me why, but we drove back, a three-day ordeal trip through the eastern half of the US, back home here to Minnesota. Here is my TOP TEN LIST. 10. Paint shortage? Driving off the main highways, [...]
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160 Acre Harvest in Just Ten Minutes.
Posted in August 22nd, 2008
by admin in Work-related
I told someone once I was from Kansas and they asked, “Ah…Kansas. Did you live by the lake or by the tree?” If you have ever been to Kansas, you can appreciate that question. So, any news about Kansas interests me. Which is why I noted with interest a new World Record for the time [...]
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Truck Driver Reality: It’s Not a Slam Dunk
Posted in August 22nd, 2008
Wayne Weisser is a long haul trucker based out of Las Vegas. He travels all over the US, and blogs about his life on the road, in the truck stop and elsewhere over at Adventures in Trucking. For anyone who wants to learn about trucker’s issues today from expensive gas to deer on the highway…read [...]
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Things I Am Learning on Vacation
Posted in August 18th, 2008
I am on the East Coast this week on vacation, I am not hiding under a chair after that Ron Paul post. I have turned my computer and phone off, except for the gee-whiz GPS feature of my IPHONE. But in case you haven’t driven on the east coast in a while, here’s a tip: [...]
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What You Can Learn From Ron Paul
Posted in August 12th, 2008
by admin in Daily Wisdom
Over at US NEWS today, I write about Ron Paul and what I noticed about his candidacy for President. Don’t worry, it is not so much a political column as you may think, rather how you can turn your employees into company evangelists. It is surprisingly simple, jump off here. Oh, and please don’t email [...]
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