I am a heavy calendar person, I live and die by my calendar which is on Google Calendar, but syncs to all my various devices including Apple Watch. I am always very careful and detailed when I make up calendar invites to ensure that both the person(s) I am inviting and I know what the
I broke a personal record of mine. I sent and received 19,957 emails in the past month, well, actually 27 days. Between the dates of December 30, 2013 and January 26, 2014, I sent 5,870 emails (that is up 66%) and received 14,087 emails (that is up 22%). This is well above my average of
Most people know I get a lot of email. I post about it every few months or so on Facebook or Twitter. I get the monthly Google Activity Monitor emails to my Google Apps account and I click to see if I am getting better or worse. I figured I look back at the past
Those that know me, know I am a classic introvert. I absolutely hate going to networking events or social settings – be it for business, the search community or personal events like wedding and birthdays. Last night I went to a business networking event, the first time I went to this event, and I actually
It has been just under two years since I had my first headshot taken and since then it has done me well. Okay, I am kidding but at least I have images I can give to conferences I speak at or newspapers that cover RustyBrick or my search related items. A few weeks ago, my
The couple weeks ago, Crystal Rock came into my office claiming they can do better than Deer Park on my water bottle prices. They did and I terminated my contract with Deer Park. Today I got a notification from Poland Spring that my home delivery is coming up. So I decided to play the termination
I am not a huge fan of recruiters. I use them because we need to find good people but at the same time, many feel like ruthless vultures to me. In any event, I had an interesting and fun call today with a recruiter. It went like this, although not word for word: Recruiter dials
Just got off with a prospect who called. It went like this: Prospect: I’d like to schedule a meeting at your office. Me: Our starting prices are $X. Prospect: Why so expensive. Me: We are really good. Prospect: That is too expensive for me. Me: Okay. Bye. I should add two things: (1) He started
In January I was really upset to learn my Chase Continental Card had foreign transaction fees. I replaced my AMEX with the Chase Continental card due to their partnership ending and was hoping to find a card that replicated those perks to the max. So when I went to Israel and noticed dozens of foreign
I hate it, absolutely hate it, when I see company partners not supporting the brands they partner with. It seems under handed and downright wrong! That is what happened when I reached out to Chase on the Continental credit card. As you know, I left AMEX for Continental’s credit card because the AMEX/Continental partnership ended.
