10 Aug
Last week was an extremely long week – Katie was co-organizer for our church’s VBS (Vacation Bible School). It was her first and proved to be hugely successful with an average of over 140 children daily and saving over 40 of them. She was busy on that while I worked non-stop for my night class that I only have a few more weeks at.
I say all that to say this. Where do you put our time and effort in? Where do you try to be great in and how do you go about it?
As you know we have a 4 year old little man. He’s a awesome little guy and we are raising him the best we can. In the end I want him to be successful and happy. If he decides to be a hippy but happy. Then I’m good. If he decides to make millions and is happy. Then I’m good. In the end I want him to have three things in life:
1) A personal relationship with Jesus – I know I don’t speak A LOT about this on the blog because I try to steer from it since I try to focus on marketing in social media.
2) A loving family with a warm heart – that he pretty much already has but hope that can find someone like I did with his mother.
3) A passion in life. Once you find that passion either flipping burgers or running a fortune 500 company happiness is right behind it.
If he has those three things in life then I know he will be an outstanding man. This same thing I strive for daily and though we all fall short in one aspect or another I still get up dust off the slacks and keep on going.
How are you breeding your success?
06 Aug
Okay, I thought I addressed this earlier but after a quick search I was wrong so allow me to say this once and only once. When it comes to grammatical errors and/or misspelling of words (despite FF’s help) - I.DON’T.CARE!
Look around – I am not selling ad space. I am not even trying to sell my services on this blog. The point of the blog ranges from marketing items I might find interesting to personal status updates. If I was trying to sell my services via /blog then I could truly understand.
This “blog”‘s intent is not to discuss Driven Media Group LLC’s services rather give updates on items I personally find. I am after all the Owner and Founder of Driven Media Group. I set up different databases for this exact reason. The main site: drivenmg.com is about what I can offer in which I am always constantly developing as much of the projects I work on come first.
While they are two separate things they do co-exist via the same domain and differ by extension (/blog).
That’s it – leave a comment about the article I might jot down but don’t use the contact form to try to get at me about spelling and grammar. It’s not the point of this. Now, if you have a question about something in-depth in an article that needs further explanation then can be mentioned via comments – then please do feel free to use the contact form.
Yet, please comment and rest assured I will respond promptly.
06 Aug
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Call it an epiphany or revelation but this week I have come to realization. One that has been on my mind, and heart, for quite some time. For those that don’t know I live / work in Dayton, Ohio which according to Forbes is listed as one of the deadest cities in the U.S. – talk about a pick me up, right?
I always knew why Forbes could see this – we are a manufacturing town. General Motors is (was) huge in this city with 3-4 plants around the town and employing thousands of people. Yet, when it under people got discouraged. Then various companies were leaving the area in the heart of downtown Dayton. The biggest being NCR. A company which started here and has offices all around the world. They are moving by end of the year to Atlanta, GA. Another thousand or so jobs: GONE!
Where I use to live on the North West end of Dayton it has gone down dramatically. The local mall is torn down with no ‘real’ plans to get anything up. The retail / restaurant industry in the part of town is a joke. I’m being honest for those that are local. Nonetheless the city continues to throw good money after bad idea (see the depleted water fountains downtown that aren’t working “properly”).
I say all that to say this: I love this town. It has a lot of potential. Wright Patterson Air Force and all the colleges are really the only thing keeping this town a float. Talks of putting in a rail road system could help – but more than likely hurt us. You could get a job in Columbus (1.5 hr drive) and not have to worry about paying outrageous housing cost. Seriously, how many people in Cincinnati would come up to see a minor league baseball team?
Bottom line is though I stay optimistic. I stay positive. I change my mind. I do blame a lot of our city leaders – they are our leaders in good times and in bad so with praise comes complaints. Now if they would just fix it from within then we could move on.
Change your mindset – Change your world!
04 Aug
Just wanted to throw out a quick note to those millions of readers out there {sarcasm of course}. I have been extremely busy as I’ve said before with new ventures in the works. It is true what they say – being productive spawns new paths in life.
I will be updating you all in the very near future as the one project I am involved in gets ready to “officially” launch. I will say this though that it does have to with music e-zine similar to hiphopremix {in its hay-day} that’s currently in hiatus.
Nonetheless I am still working and doing school but always eager to speak with people / companies that need help with understanding social media marketing.
More on that later.
