Occasionally I find that I come across something or someone whom I have never heard of before, which for some reason or the other strikes a cord with me.
One recent occasion of this has been Bill Hicks. I don’t think I have heard of Bill until this last month, but now I have come across his writing and QUOTES several times. Not sure I would want to be associated with all of them, as some of them will for sure offend some people. Indeed the Bill Hicks website even says:
WARNING: This website contains everything your parents hate, everything the Church preaches against, everything the Government fears. Enjoy. – Bill Hicks
Anyway, the quote that really got my attention and one which I found it easy to resonate with was this:
The world is like a ride at an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it, you think it’s real because that’s how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it’s very brightly coloured and it’s very loud and it’s fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time, and they begin to question: Is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say:
“Hey – don’t worry, don’t be afraid ever, because this is just a ride.”
And we … kill those people.
A bit deep perhaps But like I said, it resonated with me.
This video has been around for sometime now - and you may have already seen it, but even if you have seen it, it is in my opinion, well worth watching over and over.
Not quite Martin Luther King and the I Have a Dream Speech, but for an Entrepreneur like me, it really gets me, every time. It inspires, it motivates and it touches.
Here we see Steve Jobs delivering his commencement speech to the graduates of Stanford University in 2005. In it he talks about getting fired from Apple in 1985, life & death.
10 ways of annoying Digg users. Break these rules at your peril.
Very good advice about how not to annoy DIGG users - but frankly, the advice applies to just about all webusers in my opinion. If only more websites could follow these rules.
As a marketer I am always looking out for new angles and new “spins” on ideas and this one caught my eye today.
The one thing I have learned about Viral Marketing is that it is often the silliest and most daft idea ideas that goes Viral.
Who would have thought that a video of a car driver hooking up four GPS devices at the same time (Which ends up with a maelstrom of voices and a nightmarish conclusion) would have been such a hit on YouTube?
At time of posting this is a video that has 1,728,545 views, 1461 Comments and been Favorited 1125 times.
See the Video below:
Mind you, the “clever” bit was having that idea in the first place - a clear case of thinking outside the box, well done that man/woman! Not so silly after all
PS: I never ever thought I would be using the term “Gang Bang” on any website of mine - if my Mother could see me now!
As some of you may know, I am a member of Yanik Silvers Mastermind Group (Highly recommended) - which means several trips to the USA each year.
I always enjoy my trips across the pond and in particular the feedback and inspiration that being a member of such a Mastermind group delivers. The group really is a very clever and inspired bunch of people. The benefits in terms of business ideas, joint ventures, insight and business clarity cannot in my opinion be over stated.
So if you ever get a chance to join any type of Mastermind Group, be that a group of local business people or salespeople or one of the growing number of Mastermind groups being put together by leading Internet Gurus (I hate that word) then I highly recommend you consider it.
You know what they say, two minds are better than one - but frankly 16 or 18 minds is better still - Well, as long as it is not a committee
Anyway, the real purpose of this posting.
One of the attractions for me joining Yanik’s Mastermind Group was the opportunity to do a little “adventure” side trip at the end of one of our Mastermind Meetings (Entirely optional - not everyone did it)
So on my last trip to the States on the 20th January, myself and my son, Michael joined Yanik, other members of the Mastermind Group and some friends of Yanik ( Rich Schefren, Tom Bell and Mike Filsaime included) on what was to be the most amazing trip of a lifetime in a Zero G Flight.
So what is a Zero G Flight?
Well, put very basically it is an opportunity to experience Weightless Flight (Just like an Astronaut)
The providers of this Experience are a company called Zero Gravity Corporation and they are I believe the first company to offer a commercial Weightless Flight termed The ZERO-G Experience™. These are the same types of flights used by NASA to train their astronauts and used by Ron Howard in the filming of Apollo 13.
Those of us who complete this “mission” become Zeronauts
To find out more about the whole experience please see Yaniks posting here: Zero G experience
Yanik rather nicely refers to the aircraft by its other well know name of the Vomit Comet. (But Yanik did not Puke!)
and for more all round info check out this article at USAToday
The following video can only give the most basic representation of what we experienced - in it you can see Yanik “Superman” Silver quite clearly and approx one third of the way in, my son Michael comes sliding into view.
If you ever get a chance to do anything like this, I highly recommend it
The amazing Google, the awesome Google does it again - love them or hate them, you have to admit, this is a cracking business!
Look at these for quotes:
“Google’s fourth-quarter revenue rose 67 percent and profit nearly tripled on continued strength in its cash cow paid search business.”
“Google’s net income nearly tripled to $1.03 billion as the Internet giant continues to gain market share in Web search and online advertising. Revenue rose 67% to $3.21 billion, including $976 million in commissions paid to marketing partners.”
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