Delivering Happiness – Video Book Review

When I heard that Tony Hsieh was writing a book about the meteoric rise of Zappos from a startup that almost collapsed to a $2 billion a year powerhouse, I was really excited to get my hands on a copy.

I have been fascinated with Zappos for the past few years because of their focus on doing right by their customers and team members which has translated into an amazing company culture and a strong base of super-fans and repeat customers. I’ve also had the opportunity to hang out with Tony since we share a lot of the same friends and he has also been gracious enough to host several awesome parties during many of the big conferences that take place in Las Vegas.

All of this built up anticipation to read the behind-the-scenes story on Zappos and this book doesn’t disappoint. I shot a video review to share my thoughts on the book.

If you can’t view this video, you can head over to my YouTube channel.

Have you read Delivering Happiness(affiliate link) yet? Thoughts?

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Inspiration and Motivation

I try to find inspiration, motivation, drive and ideas in every aspect of life. I look at how other companies operate in different industries and try to apply some of those qualities that I admire to the companies that I’m part of. I think about how hard others work in their jobs and lives whether it is the Chief of Staff to the President, Jay-Z or they are a single mom or dad.

Recently I came across a compilation of interviews that Will Smith has given over the years that The Mind Guru put together. It is by far one of the most inspirational videos I have ever seen.

If you can’t view this video, you can head over to YouTube to watch it..

I have watched this video over and over again, each time pulling out quotes that meant something to me. My favorite?

“Being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity.”

Make sure you take the 10 minutes out of your day TODAY to watch this video. It is my hope that you find this video as motivating as I have found it.

19 Marketing Experts Share Tips and Insights – Inbound Marketing Summit 2010 Preview

As we get closer to the Inbound Marketing Summit on October 6-7th (you can save 50% off using source code EBOOK50), Mike Volpe of HubSpot and I teamed up to conduct a survey of the speakers. We had a total of 19 speakers respond, including Chris Brogan, David Meerman Scott, Dharmesh Shah, Steve Garfield, Scott Stratten and more. We gathered all of the responses, analyzed all of the data, and have released a free ebook with the results of the research.

We were interested by some of the data including the prediction that social media will drive more business value than SEO by 2013 and that over the next 3 years Google and Facebook will decline in importance while something new (and currently unknown) will emerge as the most important website or service.

Want to see what else these experts had to say? Here is the complete ebook as a presentation. If you want your own copy, you can download it.


What currently drives the most business value for your company? How do you think that will change over the next 3 years?

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