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Vanity Fair, Unfair Vanity, and Vanity Metrics

A while back, I was talking about Cancel Culture on The Bacon Podcast episode 654. What I was talking about was canceling subscriptions. I was going through some of my accounting this weekend and noticed I was paying $10 a month for a newspaper I wasn't reading. Checked with my wife, she wasn't reading it…

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Don't Be an Icky Guy (or Gal) Find Your Purpose with Ikigai

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] How Are You Doing? I want to ask you a question. How are you doing? It's been a year since we started to lock down and be stuck in our own environments. I've been working from home for a long time but I do miss getting out and having coffees and going to networking…

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Why You Want To Be The Problem Child

I don't know if you have any brothers or sisters or where you fall in the birthing order. I happen to be one of three. There's my older sister, my middle brother, and I'm the baby. What I want to talk about today is why you want to become the problem child. And we're going…

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The Three Headed Marketing Success System

Occasionally I talk to these businesses that tell me, “You know what? We like what you have to say, but we're just going to hire a marketing person.” The question I ask them, which usually gets them to stop and think is, “Which one? Are you going to hire an SEO person, web guy, email…

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How To Increase Your Return On Relationship Investment By Interacting Human to Human

I had someone contact me after reading my first book. It's called, “It's Not About You, It's About Bacon“, but the main concept is “Relationship Marketing in a Social Media World!“. He commented back and said, “You want me to do more networking?” The answer I gave him was “Yes.” He was thinking I meant…

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