From Jason Alba (al - buh)
August 4, 2011 at 8:30 am
I’m toying around with changing some visual elements of one web page (not a website), and I found some AMAZING tools:
Color Scheme Designer: This helps you see what colors ... (
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From Jason Alba (al - buh)
August 3, 2011 at 1:29 pm
I just saw a link to a Harvard Business Review article by Jerry Weissman titled In Presentations, Kill Your Darlings.
I’ve talked a lot about being “concise,” ... (
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From Jason Alba (al - buh)
July 19, 2011 at 10:55 am
Paul Copcutt, personal branding speaker and consultant, sent a link to a group I’m in to The Examined Practice, a post by Alan Weiss with a number of tough questions everyone ... (
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From Jason Alba (al - buh)
July 13, 2011 at 4:08 pm
I just finished the second draft of Eight Lunches. Whew.
If you want to review it, leave a comment here and I’ll email it to you.
Here are the instructions for the review:
I’m ... (
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From Jason Alba (al - buh)
July 11, 2011 at 12:12 pm
In November I bought a projector from Electrocloseout for presentations… I was uber-excited about it because, well, real companies have presentation projectors, right?
It ... (
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From Jason Alba (al - buh)
July 11, 2011 at 12:03 pm
On our road trip we stayed with family in Midland, Texas. When I was a kid I caught some horned toads (aka, horny toads, which are some of the coolest lizards in the world) there, ... (
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From Jason Alba (al - buh)
June 28, 2011 at 6:35 pm
Kid1: “hey, respect your elders, yo!”
Kid 2: “But I’m older than you…!
Kid 1: “Yeah, but I’m your UNCLE!”
… good point, I ... (
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From Jason Alba (al - buh)
June 21, 2011 at 8:56 am
Here’s a short-but-good post from Fred Wilson on how to get financing for your new business.
Many new entrepreneurs think they should start out at a certain point – ... (
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From Jason Alba (al - buh)
May 31, 2011 at 1:06 pm
Here’s a new thing I’ve seen in spam recently:
1. This is the first email I’ve noticed where they CUSTOMIZE the dormant account holder. Normally it is a deceased ... (
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From Jason Alba (al - buh)
May 10, 2011 at 8:55 am
Monday I gave feedback to Brad Merrill about HOW he let others know about his blog… today I want to write about a blog post (his second post).
Brad titled the post What is ... (
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From Jason Alba (al - buh)
May 9, 2011 at 8:50 am
My friend Brad Merrill took the plunge and started a blog.
It has the potential to be an awesome personal branding tool for himself, and I applaud what he’s doing.
This is ... (
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From Jason Alba (al - buh)
April 29, 2011 at 11:57 am
Last night in family prayer my wife gave thanks for a “miraculous event.”
My first thought was that it was a miracle that such event was going to take place, because ... (
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From Jason Alba (al - buh)
April 20, 2011 at 9:25 pm
Today I was in a mastermind meeting for a few hours and set up my work station… didn’t even think twice about it until my colleague (Mitch Seehusen), from across the ... (
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From Jason Alba (al - buh)
April 9, 2011 at 6:27 pm
I’m sitting on my couch plucking away on a Microsoft 6000 keyboard I just got in the mail, writing this on my iPad 2.
I feel like I’m such a techie, although in reality ... (
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From Jason Alba (al - buh)
April 5, 2011 at 10:50 am
Today I started piano lessons with my 13 year old daughter.
That is, SHE is teaching me.
Considering she’s been playing since she was 3 (see a cool song she self-taught herself ... (
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From Jason Alba (al - buh)
March 31, 2011 at 2:58 pm
Hey there, I write on a number of different blogs … you might not have seen these so I wanted to share them with you here:
From my JibberJobber blog: Seth Godin: Pick Yourself
From ... (
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From Jason Alba (al - buh)
March 4, 2011 at 3:54 pm
I remember a radio interview I was doing in with a supposedly enormous audience and I hoped I sounded good.
Why?
Because the tissues stuck up my nose to stop the bloody nose made ... (
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From Jason Alba (al - buh)
February 21, 2011 at 2:15 pm
I just booked a roundtrip flight through Southwest from SLC to BWI and was expecting to be able to use my recent “award,” aka free ticket.
This is an overly-whiny post, ... (
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From Jason Alba (al - buh)
February 17, 2011 at 11:18 am
A few months ago I was talking with someone about business and marketing and they introduced a concept new to me, but I got the impression that everyone else had already heard ... (
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From Jason Alba (al - buh)
February 16, 2011 at 1:14 pm
Many of you know JibberJobber is a relationship management tool, designed off of traditional CRM, but stripped down to focus on RELATIONSHIPS instead of sales processes and jargon.
In ... (
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From Jason Alba (al - buh)
January 31, 2011 at 10:13 am
Last week I was doing the dishes thinking about hanging out, doing nothing.
I wasn’t wishing I was doing nothing, I was just thinking about what it means to do nothing.
Hang ... (
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From Jason Alba (al - buh)
January 11, 2011 at 3:45 pm
I just read a really cool post by author/speaker extraordinaire Scott Stratten THE AWESOMENESS OF BEING A 2.0 AUTHOR. The title didn’t grab me and at first I wasn’t ... (
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From Jason Alba (al - buh)
December 20, 2010 at 2:08 pm
I was listening to the news a few nights ago and was disgusted at a story about return fraud. I had never heard of it but was shocked at how easy it is to do.
More shocking was ... (
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From Jason Alba (al - buh)
December 15, 2010 at 11:16 am
Almost five years ago I got laid off. My wife was pregnant with our fourth child and we had to change from our car (Toyota Avalon, which is like harnessing heaven on four wheels!) ... (
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From Jason Alba (al - buh)
December 3, 2010 at 9:16 pm
I had a meeting in a coffee shop today and saw someone Seth Ahonen drawing.
DRAWING.
He had a picture of a baby and was recreating it with pencil (I’m sure there’s ... (
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