By now I'm sure you have heard about Google's new social network, Google Plus (or G+ for short). Google Plus is currently the fastest growing social network with over 25 million members in the first month. I've been using it for several weeks now and believe that it could be a very important tool for businesses who want to reach their audiences. Continue Reading

Have you ever gotten your car stuck in a ditch? Your rear tires desperately try to find traction only to spin deeper and deeper into the mud. The more you step on the gas, the worse your situation becomes. And now you are spraying mud everywhere. It can even end up on other people and their vehicles. You can keep trying to get out of the ditch. Or you can realize that what you are... Continue Reading

Recently I went to one of my favorite restaurants for a quick lunch. I called in an order of Chicken Tortilla soup to-go and went to pick it up. While I was there I observed that the restaurant was not busy. It SHOULD have been busy, being lunchtime. But it wasn't. It was then I asked to see if the owner was there. I wanted to speak with him for his benefit. He came out... Continue Reading

I had the privilege of spending some time with Ken Surritte of WaterIsLife.com Focused on the effort of bringing clean water solutions to developing nations, Ken has a real heart of compassion for those less fortunate. This brief episode of the Joel Comm Show will enlighten you and provide a few laughs. Most of all I hope it encourages you to participate in this very worthwhile efforts. Watch the episode below and be sure to... Continue Reading

If I had a nickel for every person that wanted to build their own website, well, I'd have a LOT of nickels! The problem is that most people get stuck at the "building a website" part. They pay massive fees to have custom sites created. The spend a lot of money on incredibly complicated software. And they end up more frustrated than ever. That's why I have been hard at work on a solution that... Continue Reading

It seems like an eternity ago that MySpace first hit the web. But it was 2003 when the site launched and 2006 when it became the most popular social networking site on the web. Things have dramatically changed in a short period of time. Facebook overtook MySpace as the leader just a brief two years later. Which leaves me asking the questions Why would anyone continue to use MySpace? Who ARE these people? Regardless, social... Continue Reading

(Written by guest contributor Sarah Beek) Chances are, you do the same few things on the Internet each day. You probably check your email account(s), update your various social media sites, and catch up on your favorite news sites and blogs. Lifestreaming services or social media aggregators are designed to be one-stop shops for these activities. And then can in fact make your online life much easier. (They can be life-savers if you haven't been... Continue Reading

Where Are You Now? Location-based services like Foursquare, Gowalla, and BlockChalk are all the rage these days, possibly because they're still so new, but probably also because they offer users the ability to turn their mobile phone addictions into something that can have very tangible real-world benefits in terms of building and maintaining relationships. And while a lot of the attention has been on how these services can facilitate impromptu run-ins with your friends, there... Continue Reading

Everyone's got a good idea, and they constantly dream of finding the perfect person who will hand them a briefcase of cash in exchange for that idea. To be honest, that's just not realistic. Ideas are pretty much worthless, unless you take action on them. Continue Reading

"All aboard!" shouts the conductor, alerting the passengers that the train is getting ready to pull out of the station. If you don't have your ticket and know where you are going, you'd better get it sorted out fast. After all, there are many tracks that lead out from the station. And while you might travel miles and miles down one track, you could end up finding out that you've traveled miles and miles... Continue Reading

Get your idea noticed by using this clean design principle. Advances in media have created the most ad-resistant breed of consumer to date. Recent studies have found that consumers are, on average, exposed to 3,000 commercial messages per day in one form or another, from the boring copy-laden radio commercials to the flashing skyscraper ads on my favorite websites, from the cluttered newspaper coupons to illegible billboards on the side of the bus and... Continue Reading

I've now been on Twitter since May 2007. When I wrote Twitter power, I had about 5000 followers. Fast forward to late 2009. I hit 83,000 followers, but that's nothing compared to the hundreds of thousands or millions of followers that some members have acquired. It's been an interesting ride, but a number of things have happened that have caused me to reevaluate my Twitter strategy. Continue Reading

A few weeks ago I had the privilege of traveling to London to speak at Andrew Reynold's Entrepreneur Bootcamp 2009. For the past few years, Andrew has put on an annual event that has dwarfed other marketing events in both size and scope. This year sought to outdo them all with a massive two-day event at the London O2 Arena. Continue Reading

What do people see when they look at you? Initially, they see your physical appearance. However, I believe our bodies are really a small part of who we really are. Man is a three-part being. We are body, soul and spirit. The body is just a casing (or an earthsuit as John Eldredge likes to say) to give our real selves something to walk around in during our brief stay on this planet. And yet... Continue Reading