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Don’t Tell Business Lies

Today, I’m taking part in a huge new business pitch. It’s a great opportunity for Falk Harrison, and I’m excited to take part in the effort. I told my 8 year old daughter this morning that I had a big day today. She often shares a small piece of advice with me as I drop her off at school, and this morning, she got me prepared for the big pitch:

Be yourself. And don’t tell business lies.

Honey, I’ll try my best.

Social media is not the magic elixir that immediately juices your sales, but with honesty and persistence, it’s worth the time. My daughter teaches me so much, and the lesson for me here is to never make promises you can’t keep. Refusing to tell tall tales about the supposed power and guaranteed results of social media might hurt my sales, but “telling business lies” is just not worth it to me.

Compendium of Spammy Blog Comments

My new ChrisReimer.com site is less than two months old, and the deluge of spammy blog comments has already begun in earnest.

I don’t understand spam. You see it, in all of its forms, and you think, “Well, they wouldn’t be doing it if it didn’t work.” I can’t believe that’s true, though. Brute force marketing means you throw everything and the kitchen sink at the wall and see what sticks. But where’s the thought? The strategy?

These oddly worded comments, and the all-important outbound links lurking behind them, are pointless and worthless – a disturbance in the natural order, a horrible waste of time. Someone had to sit down and write these. And for what? Some Google Juice? And the language used… it’s actually a concerted effort vs. the blog comments of the past where you’d just paste a link into the comment field. They’re trying. And this is the result.

All of these comments went into moderation, and none made it to my site.

By the way, I considered the SEO implications of creating one blog post containing all of this spammy jibberish. I guess I just don’t care. Google AutoBot, if you can understand this, the stuff below is not spam with regards to my site, but to a bunch of other sites. Don’t index or care too much about it or whatever. Cool?

HERE WE GO:

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LinkedIn Has a Sense of Humor, Doesn’t It?

(thanks @ErinE)

The Harlem Shake – Discussion with Mark Reardon and Kenny Wallace

My appearances on the Mark Reardon Show on 1120AM KMOX Radio are supposed to be debates. Mark and I are supposed to disagree on something, and then we appropriately agitate each other for eight or so minutes. However, when it comes to the Harlem Shake, we are in agreement. We’re tired, weary, we want it to end. Just make it stop!

So we decided to just have a discussion where we would agree that the Harlem Shake cannot exit the public consciousness fast enough.

And then, he springs a surprise guest on me! Actually, he kind of hinted at his intentions.

All’s well that ends well. 🙂

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