The Event Planner’s Dillemma in the age of Social Media

June 17, 2009

(and my first ‘rant’ post) NOTE: This post is partially inspired by Blagica’s article http://www.blagica.com/2009/03/nightlife-promoters-club-owners-and-lounge-hosts-there-is-no-velvet-rope-in-social-media-get-over-it.html NOTE 2: I am ranting here.   I will not name names, but I would like your input and comments.  Someone rubbed me the wrong way so I’m trying to bring constructive action to it. To preface my post, let me [...]

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Personal Branding

May 21, 2009

I hate buzzwords. I’ve made a decision. A rather bold one for my tastes, but regardless. I’ve decided to drop all the various handles I have online, and just brand myself and my image for various things. While I created my company awhile back, DLW Consultants, it’s sort of evolved. When I started, it was [...]

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Watch your snobbery!

May 12, 2009

So I wasn’t familiar with the term ‘geek snobbery’ until quite recently. Until then I was wracked with guilt when I dealt with it, I always assumed it was something I did.  At the same time I lamented the mechanics of it, and vowed to get revenge against being snubbed.  The other call was for [...]

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Social Media ‘experts’

April 29, 2009

So the bandwagon has officially been jumped. You know it has when we go from Whoopi Goldberg saying that Twitter is silly, to geeks revolting over the fact that Oprah has decided to get on Twitter. But even further back from that, we have a buzzword for ‘Social Media’.   I’ve had a personal blog since [...]

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There are some things I’m not good at.

April 15, 2009

When asked about my business, or service, I can never really define what I actually do or what my business does.  One of the main reasons I do this is because I believe that I gain more opportunities by building relationships.   As opposed applying a ‘pitch’ to all ‘customers’ and situations.  However, I do know [...]

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The Sales Pitch

March 30, 2009

So I went to a networking event this evening, which was the March meetup of the Chicago Business Development Forum http://www.meetup.com/ChicagoBusinessDevelopmentForum/ . This event was hosted by longtime friend and tangential mentor Jason Rosado of http://www.distinctivecoaching.com/.

The topic for the evening was about blunders of networking.

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