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I just returned from a successful lunch at the Duluth Flash Networking event, sponsored brought to you by Solutions Marketing, and sponsored by Purdue Vision (a graphic design and marketing firm).  I had a good time and learned more about how to market both myself and Stronico.

I’m something of a novice presenter, so I’m sure that this will not be news to many of my readers, but here are the lessons I drew from the four 90 second presentations I made Read more on A successful round of networking – with presentation lessons learned…

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My last post was a review of Work The System by Sam Carpenter.  In the book I erroneously conflated several themes and accidentally inserted a quote from a review in progress into the Work The System review.  I have taken the original review down it will not reappear.  I apologize for the errors.

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I just established Stronico as a Georgia Limited Liability Company, and now Stronico Contact Management LLC is born!  As I was doing the paperwork to I could not find any templates for the Articles of Organization, so here are the templates I created to file my paperwork.  Remember to change the names to your LLC.  Please check out the Georgia Secretary of State’s office for more information and exactly what you need, but this should get you started.  If you are not in the state of Georgia you might need to use another format.

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I’ve read many personal development books and business books in the past year, and they all seem to be variants of the following five ideas

• Live in the present – thinking about the past and the future leads to thoughts of grievance or anxiety.  The best example is Derek Sivers’ essay on the topic

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My new commandment: Never complain about anything.  Ever.  If you feel the need to complain to pressure someone else to make something happen, then be honest and call it manipulation.

I realized this while at a client meeting; we were talking about problems with a botched sales program and the staff had a litany of complaints about the program (ed. note: it was created by a separate vendor years ago, and the fault lies with the now-departed project manager who designed something inappropriate.  It does a masterful job of integrating legacy systems from different vendors, languages, platforms, a mainframe and Europeans are involved somehow,  but the user interface is wanting.  But I digress…).  Then I remembered hearing the same litany of complaints a year ago.   Unlike last year,  I offered suggestions on how to make small improvements to the program. Everyone proceeded to ignore me and continued complaining.  At the end of the meeting everyone felt a lot better once they had talked about their problems.  No one made any plans to actually fix the problems. Read more on Why you should never complain about anything – with anecdotal proof!…

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I’ve been bogged down with client work, and then StartupAtlanta took a chunk out of the week too.  Look for the writeup of that soon.

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