I fell off the blogging wagon…big time. No excuses here…I just did.
I’m going to get serious about it again. I’m going to help a new friend, Marty Crowe, get into it. Ms. Jill & I are going to a blogging conference this weekend. I fell off - time to climb back on and make you guys think and, once in a while, smile.
I’ll be back…before the end of the week. Time for a new start in the blogesphere.
Jill and I had a wonderful weekend in Steamboat Springs for Thanksgiving…except getting home!
The usual 2 1/2 hour drive was over 6 hours of white knuckle time! It took about 2 hours to get from entering I-70 through the Eisenhower Tunnel (normally about 10 minutes).
We were lucky though. We’d bought gas in Steamboat. We had food. We had a new BMW X5 that really didn’t care about a little (OK, a lot) snow and ice.
‘Tis back to work - and normal - today.
Now the REAL procrastination begins…how many times will YOU hear ‘we’ll make a decision after the Holidays’ this year?
;-(
Can’t you just hear Willie Nelson singing it??
I’m in San Diego again doing a little consulting. I totally forgot it is US Open week here. I’m staying just a couple miles from the venue. There are lots of Tiger, Phil and other golf fans at my hotel. It’s fun to watch them…AND expensive.
When I got here yesterday I couldn’t even get a rental car. I finally did - but it took way too long. Ah…the joys of the road.
I met with two people last night that I’m forming a mastermind group with: David Hlavak and Jill Secard. I’m excited about it. They are both operations people. I think we will learn a lot from and teach a lot to each other. I’d like to see the group grow. We’ll see if we can make that happen. I haven’t had a virtual mastermind group before. Just in-person ones. This will be a new challenge.
I’m off to San Jose after work tomorrow for Simon Leung’s bootcamp in San Jose. By the end of the weekend I expect to be an AdWords wizard! Well, maybe not - but I am expecting both the information and the networking to be outstanding at Simon’s event.
Next week I get to stay home! That’s a good thing. I feel like I never get caught up when I’m on the road. Plus - I’ve barely seen Jill in a couple weeks. That isn’t a good thing, either.
I can’t remember….did I tell you Jill’s 20 year-old niece Anna has arrived for the summer at our house? She’s going to work every day, running, playing water polo, going to movies and out to dinner with friends from Grinnell. She’s a delight. I hope she’s having as good a time as we are having her around.
Here I go again, making excuses. Can I claim I’ve been too busy to update this blog? Sure, I can. But everyone is busy. I just haven’t taken the time to do it.
My bad.
Last week I went to Canada to meet with my new friends Drs. Irina and David. They are brilliant people with a suite of products that, frankly, blew my socks off. If you want to have some fun and think about feeling better go to www.truescenar.com or www.laserscanarfusion.com or www.dririna.info. These guys will rock your world!
Lots more about Drs. Irina and David products soon.
Something else new in the Wisehart household. We never had kids. Jill’s 20 year old niece, Anna, showed up today for the summer. So…all sorts of things will, I’m sure, go on that I will have little idea how to cope.
Yesterday (and again today and yet again tomorrow) I gave a speech on business and personal lines of credit to a roomful of people. The best news? The guys from Real Talk Network here in Denver filled the room. All we had to do was show up and give our talk. I love doing that. Filling a room? Now that, my friends, is a different story.
Ms. Jill and I spent all day Friday and Saturday at Brendon Burchard’s Nonprofit & Corporate Sponsorhip Bootcamp. There will be more starting in a few minutes…I can’t wait.
The hours pass like minutes. This guy is magical in his presentation. Plus…there is serious meat inside.
If you get a chance to attend one of his events…do it!
It is interesting to me that the demographics of the crowd are significantly older than ‘normal’ marketing seminars. I asked Brendon if he knows why at the VIP dinner last night. He doesn’t!
All I can say…old folks, keep coming. This guy can teach a lot of us new ways to do our business….while adding value to a society that needs it.
Thanks, Brendon. I’ll be back.
What a weekend! I spent it with 500 others at Frank Kern’s Mass Control seminar at the Hard Rock Hotel in San Diego.
As always - I had a great time hanging out with other like-minded entrepreneurs. People focusing on the internet space are especially an interesting bunch. They are generally a bunch of social misfits trying to figure out how to make a living from home by just being smart. Some of them are REALLY smart - and do well. Some others don’t do so well. They are pretty much universally nice people. I always enjoy internet based events.
I may or may have not been the oldest guy in the room - but I at least competed for the honor. I think that is fun, too. Conversations - and maybe even a cold one or two - with twenty-five year olds from very different places than my space (both culturally and economically) makes for fast learning.
I don’t play consultant much any more - haven’t for 9 years. But occasionally, when an old client (almost 20 years since I first worked on his business) calls and needs some help, I say yes. Today was the first of three days I’m going to spend trying to dust off old skills and playing consultant again.
The entrepreneur here was at one time as high as #13 on the Inc. 500 list. A few months later that company was gone. He could have screwed lots of people. Instead, he took the high road, never declared bankruptcy, paid off creditors (over a LONG time) and moved to Cali and started again.
He started his current company in 1992. It struggled for years. About 5 years ago business got good. It still is, although a very large and profitable customer will soon go away. He still has enough cash flow to work out new strategies. That process started today.
I agreed to make a monthly trip back here as well as spend time in Denver working on his challenges. I’m excited about it. It is a VERY good thing to take on new (or, in this case, old) engagements to keep the brain synaps flowing. This is gonna be fun!
I promise I’ll keep you posted as we come up with new strategies, tactics, priorities, etc. to renew and rebuild this 16 year old company.
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