Just a fun little thing to lighten your evening.
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Just a fun little thing to lighten your evening.
Category: Personal Reflections
Lessons learned about life; pearls of wisdom I’ve gleaned through pain, failure and honest reflection
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Just a fun little thing to lighten your evening.
I feel love
I desire my life
Overflowing everywhere
Centered upon love
Evening
Upon evening’s curves
Attention drifts longingly
Over her dark eyes
Trust and the Consumer
Some more thinking on trust:
Building trust, creating relationship is slow, laborious. Counterpoint: it’s erosion is fast, with frightening speed. Years to build and moments to ruin.
As an entrepreneur, one must be ever vigilant against this erosion of trust. The downward slope is far steeper than the assent. When your customer feels commodified, that they’re ONLY a revenue stream for you, the connection will be destroyed.
A haiku
This sums up my feelings about life right now. Seen lots of frustration, fear and anger today. I wonder how to move forward. That’s often the bold challenge, seeking to move past animosity.
Today’s anger spent
I seek to make things better
Progressing forwards.
I seek to make things better
Progressing forwards.
Winter
Cold wetness seeps in.
Clothing’s heaviness intense.
Seattle’s winter.
Being Human
Funny humans,
The only part of this
Universe that flails
And rages, expecting
Full control of this
Immensity.
The value of Facebook
Lately, I’ve been considering all the changes Facebook has blasted out over the years. Particularly, I’ve been wondering about the Facebook pages I manage. In particular, the many changes to the way business pages interact with the general user concern me. I first noticed this with my personal page feed. Business page content gets filtered out, rarely appearing in feeds, even MY pages in MY feed. I’m also noticing a drop in engagement: comments, questions, dialog, et al. This video takes that concern and provides some flesh to its bones.
Now I wonder about Facebook’s value to small businesses in any capacity. If content and connection gets buried, lost, or goes out to irrelevant audiences, there is no value. Well, little. Ok, well, lesser. The value of Facebook is still immense. Facebook is still a key piece to a social media strategy. It’s THE place, with diverse demographics and a truly global reach. Or, as I like to say, it’s the place with the eye-balls. So, there’s still value in the gorilla that is Facebook, but it’s role and impact have just changed.
Expect that, within this perpetually changing landscape, it’s place and value will change yet again. And again…
Meditation on Greatness
One cannot achieve greatness
Adhering to the status quo.
Mediocrity, numbing the
Quiet desperation, drifting
Through life barely creates
Fertilizer for poppies.