The Hello Bar is a simple web toolbar that engages users and communicates a call to action.
Become Healthier By Keeping a Food Journal

Become Healthier By Keeping a Food Journal

February 6, 2013
Leading a healthy lifestyle seems intimadating to people whether it's that they're not sure what is "right" to eat, how to properly workout or what supplements may support their efforts. While working out regularly can help to reduce your stress, improve your health and help you to lose weight, this is usually one of the hardest things for people to keep up with. No matter how well-intentioned you are, when stress or travel or a busy schedule…
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What's In My Gear Bag: 2013 Edition

What’s In My Gear Bag: 2013 Edition

January 28, 2013
While there are many benefits to travel, one of the difficulties is staying productive while you're on the go. Sure, we have technology that enables us to accomplish our work from wherever we are. What takes time to develop, though, is our ideal workshifting set-up. I have logged more miles in airplanes than I care to count and spend many nights per year in hotel rooms. Over this time I have had to figure out the tools that I need to be produc…
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Announcing The Socialized Business Podcast

Announcing The Socialized Business Podcast

January 23, 2013
After a few months of brainstorming, planning and prepping, Jason Keath, Michael Brito and I are thrilled to announce the launch of The Socialized Business podcast. The first episode of the show is already live. During this first episode we discuss why we decided to launch a social business podcast, what social business means to us and discuss the future role of social media managers. In case you're not able to listen to the podcast rig…
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Use Less Folders to Increase Your Email Productivity

Use Less Folders to Increase Your Email Productivity

January 21, 2013
Over the years I have experimented with a number of different email folder strategies in an effort to increase my email productivity. I have created folder structures by team, project and person. I have created sub-folders that sorted email down to a single email in each folder. Every email that came in I would take 10-15 seconds to decide which folder it should go in. Usually it would come down to an internal debate about which was the best-…
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7 Tips for Consuming More Water

7 Tips for Consuming More Water

January 18, 2013
Keeping up your water intake is vital to your overall health and it goes far beyond wanting to lose weight or grow bigger muscles, though it helps with those goals too.  There are an endless number of reasons why drinking more water is good for you. A simple Google search for "benefits of drinking water" returns over 18 million results, with many of the articles on the first page containing multiple reasons. So, how much water should you be dr…
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Are You Focused

Earlier tonight I decided to watch a keynote by Gary Vaynerchuk that I like to watch often as a source of motivation.  I’ve watched this presentation when I’m tired in the middle of the night; when I miss being home while I’m 10,000 miles away from my fiance; when I’ve been stressed out before with [...]

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9 Ways to Use Facebook to Connect and Interact

Facebook continues to grow at a breakneck pace of approximately 600,000 new users per day along with more than 140 million active users of the service.  With so many features built into the service and many additional features that can be added on to extend Facebook, it is only appropriate to put together a list [...]

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Using Video to Engage and Strengthen Your Community

Last week I had the great opportunity to be on a panel along with Matt Cutler, VP Marketing & Analytics at Visible Measures, Mike Volpe, VP Marketing at HubSpot, and Matt Kaplan, VP Solutions at PermissionTV. The topic surrounded the idea of using online video to strengthen your relationship with your community. It was a [...]

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Organizational Barriers to Social Media Adoption

MarketingSherpa has published a new chart showing the organizational barriers to social media adoption. It is not surprising to see that the top 2 barriers are a lack of knowledge and the perceived inability to measure ROI. When it comes to a lack of knowledgeable staff, the MarketingSherpa team touched on one of the dangers [...]

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Living Out of a Box

For those of you who follow me on Twitter or Facebook you know that I’ve spent the past few weeks preparing to move up to Boston.  This week was the big week and we moved on Friday and Saturday.  So, that means that right now I’m living out of boxes.  While some may not like [...]

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