What’s Holding You Back? Really?

by Elmer Boutin on May 16, 2012

A few months ago, I wrote about finding a “Victory Tower” moment in your life to help you boost your confidence. That was directed at helping you avoid damaging self talk which limits your potential. Today, I’d like to look at this from another side and talk about making excuses. A closely related topic, but slightly different.

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The Saturday Summary – 5/12/2012

by Elmer Boutin on May 12, 2012

Did you miss out on your reading this week? No problem, I’ve put together some interesting articles from the week of May 7-11, 2012 covering topics such as Leadership, SEO, location-based online marketing and the history of online search …

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Three Question Thursday – Michelle Lowery

by Elmer Boutin 3 Question Thursday

Michelle Lowery is another person I met at PubCon. (If you’re getting the idea that you can meet some great people at PubCon, that’s because you can!) I just finished up a session in which I mentioned I went to the Defense Language Institute when I was in the Army. Michelle came up to me and introduced herself, telling me she went graduated from DLI during her time in the Air Force. Michelle is one of the very smart people on the Outspoken Media team and is a killer player when it comes to Words with Friends and Scramble with Friends. Let’s read what she has for us …

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The Saturday Summary – 5/5/2012

by Elmer Boutin Catchall

Here are some articles which I found particularly interesting during the week of April 30 – May 5, 2012 covering such topics as leadership, social media, Google and search …

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Three Question Thursday – Bernadette Hill

by Elmer Boutin 3 Question Thursday

Bernadette Hill is a Lancaster, Pennsylvania-based recruiter I met late last year while I was poking around for new job opportunities. She heads up TalentTap, which is located in The Candy Factory coworking site. I invited her to jump in on Three Question Thursday because she works in the recruiting business; a field which is very active in social spaces.

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The Saturday Summary – BlogathonATX Special Edition

by Elmer Boutin Catchall

Today I’m at BlogathonATX – a fantastic one-day blogging conference held in Austin a couple times a year. I apologize for the Saturday Summary running a little late, but since I’m at a blogging event I thought it would be appropriate to actually write while I’m here.

Here are some articles which caught my eye during the week of April 23-28, 2012 covering such topics as analytics, SEO, leadership and marketing technology …

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Three Question Thursday – Bonnie Johnson

by Elmer Boutin 3 Question Thursday

When I was getting together a local group of social media- and web marketing-savvy people, one of the first I thought of was Bonnie Johnson who coordinates online efforts for Perry Office Plus. PerryOP is a Central Texas-based office supply chain. Not only are they a great local business, they compete quite nicely against the [...]

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Attitude Versus Morale

by Elmer Boutin Leadership

I’ve had several discussions of late about attitude and morale and how they relate to leadership. I thought I’d share some of my thoughts with you in case you’ve ever wondered about it yourself. Attitude Attitude is a personal frame of mind. Although many people don’t consider it this way, a person’s outlook and attitudes [...]

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The Saturday Summary – 4/21/2012

by Elmer Boutin Catchall

Some articles which I found particularly interesting during the week of April 16-20, 2012 covering such topics as SEO, online reputation management, social media, corporate culture, web site strategy and customer service …

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Man’s Inhumanity To Man

by Elmer Boutin Catchall

Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. It’s a good time to step back and take a look at ourselves and realize that at times we humans are not “all that.”

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