I believe strongly that in today’s world if you want to be successful you need to not only have a personal development plan, but act on its contents in an on-going consistent manner. Angela Sethi believes so much in the benefits of continuous learning that she decided to start her own training company, Second Floor Locker, with the goal of providing an unbiased learning environment for those people who want to learn something new.
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Entrepreneur Profile: Angela Sethi, Second Floor Locker
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October 6th, 2009
Removing barriers to permission
Just as I do every morning I get to work and fire up my personalized daily newspaper (aka Google Reader) and start browsing the latest articles from my favourite news sources. This morning I came across a couple of articles that were discussing making “first contact” via your website and wanted to make a few comments. [Read more →]
September 15th, 2009
Small business seminar – getting more from your website
I’m doing my latest small business seminar on September 23, 2009 at 7:00pm at the Coffee Office in Burlington. The seminar will present some simple ideas that you can implement today in order to get more value from your current small business website.
Space is limited, so if you’re in the area and want to learn how to improve your small businesses website, register today!
Everyone that attends will have a chance to win an iPod Shuffle!
Location: Burlington Coffee Office
Date and Time: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 @ 7:00pm
Cost: $20
September 14th, 2009
Six Pixels of Separation: Review
Before I get into the review itself I think that it’s important that I let everyone know that I am a huge fan (maybe even a “raving fan?”) of Mitch Joel. I subscribe to his Twist Image blog and his amazing podcast (especially the Media Hacks episodes) and when I heard that he was releasing his own book to say that I was excited would have been a slight understatement.
I don’t think that the term “loitering” is strong enough to explain how much time I spent in my local Indigo after hearing about the books release date. If Indigo is a follower of Avinash and has any type of analytics on the searches that are performed at store level I bet a few of the folks who are responsible for interpreting that data were left scratching their heads on the sudden and large increase on the number of in-store searches performed on “Six Pixels of Separation”. Desperate to get a copy I eventually succumbed to Amazon.ca and received the book within a day or two.
July 13th, 2009
Making some real progress
A while back I subscribed to Chris Guthrie’s blog, and always found it to be a good read. Not sure exactly why I removed his site from my RSS reader but I stumbled across a post of his recently that really got me thinking.
In the article, he talks about wanting to be successful and work for himself but how he was not making enough progress because he was suffering with the time-sink most of us refer to as WoW (World of Warcraft). I share Chris’ pain; I am fully addicted to Eve-Online and have been playing for years now. I often joke about needed to get into a 12-step program to help me get over this addiction. I shudder to think about the sheer amount of time that I have sunk into EVE over the years, and how much further ahead I would actually be at this point.
After reading the article, I realized that although Eve has to be one of the best (if not the best) video games ever created it really is holding me back when it comes to my goals, maybe it’s time to send an email like Chris did and move on…thoughts? What’s holding you back?
April 17th, 2009
Getting back on track
I have been a fan of 43Folders for quite some time now and a few weeks ago Merlin was kind enough to make the audio of a presentation that he and John Gruber made at this year’s SxSW conference. Being a fan of Merlin’s site, I download the podcast to my iPhone and was eager to listen to it on my daily commute to/from the office. I’ll be honest, I made the assumption that I was going to listen to a couple of geeks (sorry guys – I don’t personally know either Merlin or John) reading powerpoint slides about how to become a successful blogger (you know – the typical stuff). Let me just say, that I couldn’t have been more wrong! These two guys are dynamic speakers are passionate about the topic and must (I have to assume, since I only have the audio) have some serious stage presence. I have since listened to their presentation 3.5 times (finishing the 4th time now) and have found myself re-evaluating my website(s) ever since.
After listening to the presentation for the 2nd time, I decided that I really needed to start making notes, there is just so much great inspirational content in their presentation and I didn’t want to miss any of it.
This post is a result of my notes. I hope that you enjoy it, and I would strongly suggest that you grab the audio of the presentation and start listening to it NOW!
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