Category: General
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The Most Important Skill: Marketing
For the last ten years, I’ve been realizing more and more that the most important skill that anyone can work to acquire is an understanding of marketing. While I don’t consider myself a sales person, I have a much better understanding today regarding the motivations behind buying something, and that…
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My Time Line – Rise and Fall of a Problogger
It seems like almost another life time ago that I was writing full time online for various blog networks, but I’m hoping that reflecting on this will help you understand my history, knowledge and motives. I feel like I should start with something literary like, “It was a dark and…
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Upranked Begins!
So for the last two years, I haven’t been as involved in content marketing, WordPress, or other facets of Internet Marketing in the same way that I was previously, but I’ve come to the realization that my current experiences working at a small company, mixed with what I learned before…
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Quick Trip to Toronto
So, last weekend, my cousin, Mark, and I went to Toronto for the weekend. The trip was really just to get away and take pictures somewhere other than Brockville or Kingston, and it worked out well. The weather might have been a bit cold, but we walked around all day…
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Saints Row: The Third
My cousin and I have beaten the third Saints Row game, and I must say, as much fun as it is, the story is a bit weak. The second game definitely felt more epic in scale, but not as wild and crazy. It is like the restraint went out the…
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Photography Gear Obsession
It is hard as a more technically savvy, and less artistic hobbyist photographer to deal with feeling like I have the “wrong gear” for a situation. Next week, Mark and I are going to Toronto to flex our photography muscles, and in the skyscraper world that is Toronto, I wish…
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Training Opportunities at Work
So, I am hoping that in 2012 my work will pay for me to attend some conferences or take some training and I’m trying to come up with ideas. Companies like Learning Tree seem a bit crazy in prices, and the local college doesn’t offer much of use in my…
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Work, Work, Work
So, I’ve been crazy busy with work. I took a week off around my Birthday, and it was great, but at the end of the day, I don’t really feel like I took any time off. I am busier than ever, as I take on more project management responsibilities while…
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