THE DREAM IN ACTION

In my short time in Chicago, I’ve realized that there are more folks into tech startups than many people realize, however our smaller but still passion startup community doesn’t quite have the “presence” and sense of availability of other startup hubs (ie. Bay Area & NYC). Hubs have events that pull these communities together and [...]

If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful. We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It’s our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better. – Jeff Bezos

This post was originally posted on ‘Get audience, get going’ the SocialDreamium company blog, please leave comments there. I recently stumbled upon Brewster’s Law of Online Community and I thought I should speak to it here on ‘Get audience, get going’. Brewster’s Law of Online Community states: “In every online community there lurks a small [...]

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the role of community manager with a startup. Would I be good at it? Would I want it? I came to the conclusion: Yes. But why? Turns out I already am a community manager. You may be too. One sign that you may be a good community manager [...]

Today was awesome. I had a productive day at work, I started early (about 6:50am), got to work on some video editing which was fun, got news about a potential stint in Paris, and left a hair before 5 (always nice). Then when I came home I realized that it was an awesome “social media [...]

Recently the concept of the online conversation has been very prevalent in my offline conversations. As I find new blogs or even news sites that I like the importance of the community around that site becomes relevant and is an asset (or liability) to the site. Whether I’m reading a local story at OnMilwaukee or [...]

This is my first of many blog post about venture capital and topics there within that my thoughts stumble upon. I hope that my journey of learning VC will be as exciting for you as I anticipate it will be for me. The first resource that really attracted me on this journey was the blog [...]

As many of you well know I’m a huge fan of Gary Vaynerchuk of WineLibraryTV. Gary is authentic and uses that authenticity to build great businesses. A few weeks ago I reached out to Gary for a spotlight on ActionsTalk, my start-up that features great entrepreneurs and allows them to tell their story to our [...]