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Check out my latest blog post on branding and a mistake (learning opportunity)  I stupidly made. 

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Three Days in Abilene

Three Days in Abilene

When you drive as much as I do, breakdowns happen. You only hope that when the breakdown hits, you’re not in Joplin, Tulsa, or Cheyenne. Add Abilene to that list. I stopped at a truck stop on the outskirts of town to sleep and when I fired up the truck the next morning, I had a slew of indicator lights on so I went to a garage and ended up having to get a hotel room, which ended up with me in a…

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Fun with Branding: Link in Bio

Fun with Branding: Link in Bio

Stop using “Link in Bio” on your social media. Link Tree is a great idea but falls short for your engagement. You have a website. Create a page for your posts links that way you are directing people to your website instead of some other company’s. This drives traffic to where you want it and helps keep, people on your site.    Basically the first thing you do with Link Tree is find people who are…

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Personal Efficiency

Why did you go into business for yourself? I bet it wasn’t as a means to avoid your family and miss your friends. At a certain point, “daddy has to work” or ” mommy is bringing home McDonald’s” just doesn’t cut it and you need to scale back your time at work. How do you do that? Why should you do that? Does your family really “understand” why you’re not home?   Let’s go with the last part first.…

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LinkedIn 101

According to Alexa, LinkedIn is the number thirteen site in the world and number nine website in the US. With the number of job-seekers, it’s no small wonder why, but LinkedIn is more than just job seeking. LinkedIn is the modern, more professional version of comparing penis size. Your friends and colleagues post something new so you feel the need to out do them. Your buddy from college learned…

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Pinterest Strategies that Work

Pinterest Strategies that Work

I love Pinterest. Now I am not a middle-aged housewife with a pill and gin problem or a middle-aged woman who still wears flip-flops and posts about wine all the time, yet denies she has a drinking problem. I am a guy and I have found Pinterest as one of the best ways to get your point out to the masses and I have some awesome tips for my readers in this piece. Anyone wanting to send information…

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Rockets Red Glare

This morning I should be waking up for the day, right around the time of this 9AM posting, with a dehydration headache and a sunburn. It’s become an annual tradition that came to an abrupt end last year. I know, sunburns aren’t healthy and I need to drink more water when I’m in the sun all day, but it’s one day a year so please, cut me some slack. Last night should have been the annual fireworks…

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Filthy Fifteen

One thing I love is history. To me, history is the telling of stories. 1492 doesn’t matter as much as Columbus sailing the ocean blue. The exact year is generally unimportant and taught to kids because teachers are babysitters giving out busywork instead of actually teaching. For good or for bad, history must be somewhat subjective or it’s the story of just facts as proven, then excluding nuance…

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The Secret to Life (For Me)

The Secret to Life (For Me)

This is part one of a two part theme. Part two will be posted next week sometime and will be titled 45 (Part Two).    COVID-19 has sucked. We are fifty-six weeks into a two-week lockdown and we all need something social in our lives and that is the secret to life. Not to brag, but I found that secret, but I’m pretty sure it’s something different for everyone.    In Michigan City, Indiana we have…

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Desperate in Dallas

“The floors of bus stations are the same all over the country, always covered with butts and spit and they give a feeling of sadness that only bus stations have.” ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road   The more I travel, the more I love this county. Most of my pieces have been about cool places and things I love seeing in my travels, even the piece titled I Hate Texas. From sea to shining sea, I’ve tried…

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The World’s (Second) Largest Ball of Twine

The World’s (Second) Largest Ball of Twine

A tribute to the American way of life is our, at times, boredom. The two largest balls of twine in the world aren’t in Saudi Arabia, Japan, or Mexico. They are right here! Today I will focus on what is technically the second largest, but I believe it to be the de facto largest and I will also explain why.   Seated in Darwin, Minnesota is a big ass ball of twine and without a doubt it is the…

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I Hate Texas

There! I said it! But what if I really don’t hate Texas? I’ve taken more than a few trips through Texas but always down Interstate 40 through Amarillo, but I haven’t seen the whole state really. Maybe there’s more to see than a desert and stockyard. Statewide Texas is a strange mix of churches and strip clubs; adult toy superstores and stores just named “guns.”   Going down I40 from Oklahoma you…

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Times Square

Since I started this job I’ve learned just how much I love New York City. I was there once before years back and it was a fantastic sight to behold, but at the time I wasn’t able to truly appreciate the city. There was so much I hadn’t seen or experienced on that one single trip. This piece is based on my most recent trip that I ended up there on a Saturday night and I didn’t realize how much I…

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Nowhere Special in North Dakota

Nowhere Special in North Dakota

With my job, I have visited a lot of states. Coupled with family vacations, I’m so close to seeing the Lower 48. I had two to go and now there’s just one. I drove through North Dakota last week…and it sucked.   It started out when I got to Fargo and took a nap, then woke up to snow…a lot of snow. I asked the girl about the storm and it’s size and she looked it up on her phone. She then responded,…

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The Great American Road Trip

The Great American Road Trip

One of the hardest things about writing this blog is the variety of places I go but only for a short time. How do I sit down and talk about Times Square in five hundred to a thousand words when pictures can’t even do such an amazing place justice? Do people want to really know about me sleeping upright on a Manhattan park bench because I missed my flight and got stuck taking a bus home from the…