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  • Data. Who’s Your Daddy?

    Data. Who’s Your Daddy?

    So I was hammering away at some phone calls today when it occurred to me how much data I have coming and going each and every minute of every day. Just to give you a snapshot of one segment of my day is kind of interesting if you look at it on a granular level [...]

  • Connection

    Connection

    I read an interesting tweet the other day courtesy of my good friend TarynP (Taryn, if you’re reading, I’d love it if you could share the tweet I’m referring to… you can also read more of her stuff at her blog) about social networking. It made me realize how easy it is for me to go [...]

  • Choosing the Right Data Center

    Choosing the Right Data Center

    I had a phone call this morning with one of our new customers who will be hosting one of his servers using VMware. BroadRiver‘s general manager Kevin Beebe and I were on the call and we answered his questions about some logistics concerning accessing his servers from his desktop in Birmingham to our data center [...]

  • The first Ethernet connection

    Some Things You Didn’t Know About Ethernet

    Ethernet has been present in business network structures for years and was a large part of home connectivity before Wi-Fi became the norm. Today it still serves a vital role in LAN, high speed office to office connectivity, and carrying both voice and data in and out of businesses. Here are some cool facts you [...]

  • Fighting Back

    Fighting Back

    As salespeople we have a large variety of strengths and weaknesses among us.  Identifying and refining those strengths while keeping our weaknesses from undermining our career and goals is a balancing act that can be tough to pull off. I’m going to be a little vulnerable with you and admit something about one of my [...]

Data. Who’s Your Daddy?

Data. Who’s Your Daddy?

[ 0 ] August 6, 2010

So I was hammering away at some phone calls today when it occurred to me how much data I have coming and going each and every minute of every day. Just to give you a snapshot of one segment of my day is kind of interesting if you look at it on a granular level [...]

Connection

Connection

[ 5 ] July 21, 2010

I read an interesting tweet the other day courtesy of my good friend TarynP (Taryn, if you’re reading, I’d love it if you could share the tweet I’m referring to… you can also read more of her stuff at her blog) about social networking. It made me realize how easy it is for me to go [...]

Choosing the Right Data Center

Choosing the Right Data Center

[ 0 ] July 15, 2010

I had a phone call this morning with one of our new customers who will be hosting one of his servers using VMware. BroadRiver‘s general manager Kevin Beebe and I were on the call and we answered his questions about some logistics concerning accessing his servers from his desktop in Birmingham to our data center [...]

Do your customers buy YOU?

[ 2 ] July 13, 2010

Earlier I spoke about how customers buy you and who you are as a person first. Allow me expand on this thought a little. In truth, customers will initially buy from you for a number of reasons that have may have only a little to do with you as a salesperson and they’ll buy somewhere [...]