Month: April 2011

Last September, I was flying high. It wasn’t just because September is my birthday month, either! It seemed like I could do no wrong on my blog. Every post was doing magically well. On Twitter, I was getting about 100 new followers a week, which was incredible because it had taken me about 3 months… Continue reading How to get over the dip

Today, as some of you might know, the long-awaited 2012 New, New Beetle is having its send-off party in Shanghai and New York. There’s a lot of interesting buzz about this product launch. Volkswagen called it a redesign, which is tricky because the look of the Beetle is so unique and recognizable. People are already… Continue reading 20 lessons we can learn from the new VW Beetle

Over the weekend, I finally got around to watching Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds, a rather interesting flick about a group of rogue US soldiers who specialize in killing Nazis during World War II. Like just about all of Tarantino’s films, the movie is divided into chapters. While I was focusing on the movie, I was… Continue reading The Five Keys to Telling An Engaging Story, from Quentin Tarantino

Today is a special day for um, well, for me. Today is my official one-year anniversary of my blog, and while I don’t know the exact date that I started using Twitter, I can tell you that I started my personal account sometime after February 10th last year. So, let’s call it a year for… Continue reading How to survive your first year of Social Media

In 1848, along the American River in California, on John Sutter’s property, nuggets of gold were uncovered, and the United States, not to mention the world, was changed forever. People who had perfectly comfortable middle class lives in Pennsylvania and New England suddenly said, “Hey, wait, I could go out to California and become the… Continue reading how to win the gold rush without digging