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Sometimes You’re Flush and Sometimes You’re Bust

by Chris Hughes on September 26, 2011


Life isn’t always easy. In fact, a lot of the time life is tough as hell and we tend to get frustrated with what appears to be a never-ending cycle of shitty stuff.  Let’s watch one of my favorite parts of the movie Blow. “Sometimes you’re flush and sometimes you’re bust, and when you’re up, [...]

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How the Minimum Effective Dose Gives You More Free Time

by Chris Hughes on September 6, 2011


The minimum effective dose (MED) is defined as the smallest dose that will produce a desired outcome. Anything that is beyond the MED is wasteful. This post is going to talk about why doing the minimum effective dose will save you time. Let’s use a quick example here. To boil water, the MED is 212 [...]

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The 7 Reasons that your business shouldn’t use Twitter for customer service. These reasons are so true that you’ll cry if you are doing them, your business will lose 902,432% profits and you will never be a company known for their customer service….or will you? Read this blog post to learn whether or not your business should be using twitter.

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Transparency in Social Media

by Chris Hughes on January 21, 2010


What is Transparency in Social Media? Let’s talk a little bit about Transparency. Transparency is one of those social media marketing terms that you probably hear when being pitched a social media campaign, but what does it actually mean?  Traditionally, the term transparency is referenced in news media to tell the public why and how [...]

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Book Review: “The Noticer” by @AndyAndrews

by Chris Hughes on December 21, 2009


The Noticer is part auto-biographical, part fiction, and all inspiring. It is the story of “Jones,” a mysterious old man who has a knack for showing up at just the right time in people’s lives. He notices stuff—stuff that they miss. And he gives them the one thing we all so often need: perspective. Everything [...]

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