July 2008
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What that little extra can mean to someone
The past month of my life has been a pretty amazing one. I have spoken to and connected with some of the most amazing people in and out of the financial space. A lot of these people have some pretty impressive resumes and I’m humbled that they would even give me five minutes of their day. One such connection, who was actually a through another new connection (isn’t that how it...
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Is Personal Branding < Company Branding?
Should your personal brand come before or after your company brand? Disclaimer: I’m giving this a shot with fear of trailing off in a variety of directions. You’ve been warned! I had, coincidentally, a few different conversations this past week in regards to personal branding versus company branding. Let me explain those conversations for you. One happened on Twitter this week...
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I'm going on staycation
Ever heard of the term? I just learned it this week. A staycation is defined as a vacation but in or around your home. I’m so used to always having a planned vacation setup that I’m really excited about this week. I plan to just chill as much as possible, hang with my girls, and try to ‘fall off the grid’ as best I can, though, I still want to read news and blog some...
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My personal iPhone 3G debacle
It’s last night at about 9:30p and I pull up Apple’s website to see what the availability would be for my Apple store at Willow Bend mall to have an iPhone 3G tomorrow. The website says it would be available in my flavor (white, 16GB) tomorrow so I began wondering what time I had to get there in the morning to be one of the first? They opened at 9am so what? 8:30a? 7am? 5am?!? I...
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iPhone Software 2.0 Review
I couldn’t help myself. I’m sure there are going to be another thousand reviews on the software but the beauty of the web is that people are also interested in my take. So I did three parts. 1) From a Apple fanboy perspective 2) From a financial services perspective 3) From a private ‘internal only’ to my guys at The Garland Group/Banktastic perspective Enjoy and...