Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker
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“You can’t learn anything from experiences you’re not having.” — Louis L’Amour
Do you notice how conversations change this time of year?
There is always so much talk about what we’re going to do. New Year, New You!
People love to dream and talk about their future plans. A new year brings this on every January.
It lasts a few weeks and then it’s gone.
Until next January.
This happens year after year, until we die.
“To live without my music would be impossible to do, because in this world of troubles, my music pulls me through.”
The other day, I heard Carrie Underwood’s new song, “Change“.
There’s a line in the song that goes like this:
“Just a fool, just a fool to believe, you can change the world.”
Maybe. Maybe not.
How often do you feel like giving up? Like quitting? Like what you do doesn’t matter? That the effort is too much, the payoff too little?
Received an email today. Compelled to share it. And it wasn’t from a blog conversation, but a LinkedIn connection.
We connected, like people do, and I sent a personal message, like I always try to do, mentioning, “I am selling hope, and it’s free.”
He sent back a reply, which was a little confusing, so I asked for clarification. He said:
“I mean it’s about putting it out there. My dad’s quote (and every dad’s?) – You’ll only get out of life what you put in …Keep selling hope – we all need it.”
Did you catch that? What his Dad always told him?
“You’ll only get out of life what you put in.”
Ever wonder why some people or businesses behave or sound a certain way on the Internet?
There is a simple explanation for this. But most people are clueless. And that’s okay. You can’t know everything.
So, you want to know a secret? The reason they do this?
SEO. Search Engine Optimization.
It’s such an over-hyped catch-phrase that it almost doesn’t mean anything in today’s world.
The catch-phrase doesn’t, but the outcome does. It’s a strategic, competitive advantage.
The redundant use of important keywords. In the title, body and tags is what baits search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and others, to move what you post higher on their search pages.
Here’s another little secret. If you ain’t on the first page, you’re disadvantaged.
You know who ends up on the first page on Google, Yahoo, and Bing?
The people who work the hardest.
Earlier this morning, we talked about how Libraries and book stores are going to go away. Can’t predict when, but it will happen.
Unless Libraries and bookstores reinvent the book paradigm.
They will either become victims or victors to creative thinking and shifting consumer demands and trends.
While today’s first (this is the second) jeffnoel.com post is only a few hours old, this jeff noel One-Take-You Tube video dates back to August 20, 2009, nearly five months ago.
I was simply walking down a busy Chicago street, on the way to the Willis Tower (Western Hemisphere’s tallest building), and stopped, looked across the street at the Chicago Library, had an epiphany, pulled the camera out on my pocket, took a deep breath and here’s what happened: