Everyone seems to be in love with the idea of working from home. The thought normally conjures pleasant mental images of a warm laptop resting on the lackadaisical lap of pajama bottoms, papers strewn about your memory foam mattress turned makeshift desk, and warm...
Building your community is what networking is all about, and there’s no better place to start than SXSW. I recently talked with Heather Dopson, Community Builder at GoDaddy, about just this. You can see the full video...
In my month and change of being a research intern for NowSourcing, I have slowly climbed the learning curve from overwhelmed Googler to confident fact-finder. Prior to this job, the only research experience I’d had was combing databases, textbooks, and...
Chad Parizman has been going to SXSW since long before he joined the team at Pfizer. They’re going to be doing some interesting things this year at the trade show. Chad and I talked about how to get through the show, where to go, what to do, and more! See the...
How do you combat hate? It’s often a slippery slope from fear into full blown hatred, and sometimes a little bit of understanding can go a long way. Christian Picciolini left a Neo-Nazi group at the age of 22 and now speaks to people about preventing hatred. He...
If you want to be successful this year at SXSW, it’s all about planning ahead. The next guests in our series are Tim Salau. Tim and I chatted about planning and squeezing the most out of the week. There’s going to be a LinkedIn Local event you’re...
SXSW is one of my favorite events. I find that there’s so much information that it’s hard to know what to focus on. That’s why over the past few years, I look for interesting people to interview about their SXSW tips and strategies. Here’s my...
I was recently a guest speaker at an Arizona Christian University class where I talked to college students about how to use LinkedIn more effectively. LinkedIn isn’t just some thing that came out of nowhere, but in the last couple of years it has grown by leaps...
Failure is necessary for success. You can’t be successful if you aren’t willing to fail once in a while. Entrepreneurs are just people who fail all the time and get lucky once in a while. You have to embrace failure and learn from it in order to be...
Last week I was a guest on the Leave Normal Behind show. We talked about entrepreneurship, creativity, and the power of marketing. Here’s a preview, and you can watch the full episode below...
