Here in Memphis, a local $7 an hour movie projectionist got fired because he wrote a negative review of the upcoming Fantastic Four movie for a website. And it looks like Fox made them do it.
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As I have asked before… Just who owns your time?
I think Andy Beard rocks.
He clued me in to the do-follow movement, I subscribe to his feed and generally follow his suggestions. I consider him a go-to guy when it comes to blogging and niche marketing. So when he started talking about Bumpzee, I was all ears.
I just do not get it, though. I signed [...]
Hughism: Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.
The man I overheard at the concert said: “I would do anything to be able to play the piano like that“.
Anything, apparently, but take lessons and practice.
“It costs to be the boss” - James Brown
If you want to drive a ball like Tiger Woods, [...]
One thing I have noticed about successful people is that they have a firm grasp of reality.
Let’s define terms for a minute, shall we? Reality is not what we wish it was, what we want it to be, or how things should be. Reality is what is.
Example: I like wearing t-shirts, khaki pants and sandals. [...]
Hughism: The way things look is the way things are
Here is a confession: I am NOT the world’s neatest person. When I was in the [tag]Marines[/tag], I always had trouble with inspections; always, that is, until I met Staff Sergeant Britt. He had a reputation of being something of a hard ass and virtually none [...]
Last week I added Kontera context links (links interspersed throughout the site that if clicked on, took you to commercial sites) to this site. Here are the results:
My page views cut in half.
I lost 10 RSS readers
I made $00.47
Therefore…
I have removed Konterra from this site.
(I realize that those bad things may or may not be [...]
Liz has thrown the third batch of blogging metaphors up, and the quality keeps getting better and better.
She has also extended the deadline to 10pm Chicago time (GMT-6hrs.) June 11th (that is a Monday), so there is still time for you to write up your best blog metaphor and email a link to Liz.
Here [...]
It is all about you. YOU are the most important ingredient here. Several of you have emailed me and displayed some confusion about the whole RSS thing. In an effort to make things easier for you, I now offer you the ability to read my latest posts via email.
All you have to do [...]
Hughism: Everybody wants to be a regular somewhere.
Community is disappearing. 60 years ago, most people shopped at the neighborhood market, went to the neighborhood bars and they worshiped in the neighborhood. Everyone had all these places where they were a regular. Not any more.
As the Cheers song says, sometimes you want to go where [...]
If you have been in business for any length of time, you have discovered certain rules that work for you. I have a rather long list of things I believe about business and life that I try to instill in my people: My employees have come to call them Hughisms.
They are short bits of wisdom [...]