Wednesday, March 30, 2005

By the way, anyone interested in making comments, please feel free.  (tony@maydaymedia.com)  I'll always do my best to answer all emails.  Robert Scoble at Microsoft is just amazing at this.  We were working on an event and not only did he respond to my email, but he forwarded my request to a gentleman at XBOX, who then forwarded my request to the ad agency that handles XBOX.  I do have to say that Robert is far busier than I am - but he's so on the ball with his business that he was gracious enough to respond...and then some.  Kudos, Mr. Scoble.  You are a rock star, man. 9:48:32 PM    comment []

Back at it after some...interesting...changes.  It's only taken two and a half months.  In the mean time, I've come up with some new ideas, new directions and a new game plan.  Same principles still exist - but now with even more focus.  Unfortunately, not every blog entry will be filled with wit and wisdom.  Sometimes it is just going to be me getting something off my back from a conversation with a friend or associate.  If there is anything I would recommend to anyone in business, or more to the point - something I'd recommend to someone who owns a business, get it in writing.  Recently a great business in Atlanta was torpedoed by someone that was trusted.  There should have been things in place (that would have been easily done) to protect its assets - but alas - they weren't there.  Contracts, people.  No matter how much you love your family or trust your friends...get working arrangements committed to in writing.  It protects both of you and gives neither one of you an excuse when conflict arises over contractual issues.  If you love your family and friends - and you're going to employ some or all of them - have them hired under a well executed contract.  It settles on paper what your expectations are of them - and vice versa.  Enough on that.  I'm going to venture a guess that Kendra is going to win - if The Donald picks a woman.  If he picks a man - I'm going with Alex.  He's doing what Bill did in season 1 - maintaining his status under the radar.  Since I'm still toying with whether or not to send in my own tape when they open it up for the next round of "casting" for the show.  Yes, I know they're aim is to create good television, and so it is, to a degree, casting.  However, I firmly believe too many of the people there are simply looking for their fifteen minutes and a shot at hanging out with Mr. Trump.  Here's a news flash - he's looking to hire you to run a company for a year.  If you do it well, you might stick around longer.  If you do well, he may still bump you out at the end of a year...but you should go into it knowing that you will have just monumentally, exponentially expanded your network!  Am I the only one who gets this??  Please, someone email me if I've lost my mind and I'm totally off-base on this.  9:37:04 PM    comment []