Archive for August, 2009

Can Fear Turn Into Success and Happiness?

Picture this…

I am 21 years old and working for a multi-million dollar marketing company. It’s a Friday at 2pm, approximately 2 1/2 months after I started. Being the top sales producer out of my 50+ person training class had landed me a promotion to Assistant Manager in training. I had been studying my 13 page, 60 minute long, group interview script for a month now. That day I had 2 back-to-back interviews scheduled.

Live Your Life in the Front Row

During my time at Vector Marketing I got the privilege of meeting some very powerful leaders, but one stuck out to me in particular. A man named Jon Vroman.

While Jon and I worked at Vector (who markets Cutco Cutlery) he co-founded a very powerful non-profit called “The Front Row Foundation“. The mission is to help people facing life threatening medical conditions get into the front row seats to concerts, sporting events and live performances of the recipients’ choice.

From Jon:

Someone once asked me, “Jon, why do you put so much effort into front row tickets?”

How to Use FTP (File Transfer Protocol) to Manage Website Files and Folders

My next training piece for you is how to use FTP software. Each website has a directory of folders and files. These folders and files contain all of the scripts, images, logos, design files, html or php files — basically everything that combined make a website.

To access these behind-the-scenes files and folders you would need FTP (file transfer protocol) software. This allows you to transfer files to and from your personal computer.

The free and easy to use software that I have been working with for years is called Core FTP. Below are some step-by-step instructions to installing the free software and for using it.

Custom Twitter Backgrounds to Double Followers

In a previous blog post, “What is Twitter, Facebook, Digg, Del.icio.us, Flickr, Squidoo, and all the others?” I wrote about what Twitter is. “Twitter is a free social messaging utility for staying connected in real-time. You can type posts of up to 160 characters (called “Tweets”) about what’s on your mind (about the weather, your business, sports updates, anything!)”

HereNextYear has been working on developing custom Twitter design backgrounds for clients. This is key to getting more followers for your Twitter account. Marty couldn’t have said it better in his blog post, “5 Steps to Getting 2000 or More Followers on Twitter“.

9 Ways to Increase Business Organization and Productivity eBook

My eBook is ready! I write in my blog and write these eBooks in my spare time – which isn’t much time at all. Maybe you can relate?  I would love to churn out instructional guides for you to further your careers and ambitions. I’ll get them to you as quickly as I can.

For this eBook, a short one!, I really just wanted to type out some of my work habits. The things that really contribute to my success and just getting stuff done in general. I know how many of your are out there that can’t finish a project you start, you get distracted constantly by new to-dos and you have this black hole where your focus just seems to disappear to at times. I can relate. But I can also work around that and make up for lost time.