Criminal Minds Fan

Found a cool website today for fans of the TV series called, “Criminal Minds.” Well, it’s actually a blog - so that’s even better: Criminal Minds Fanatic.

I really like this show for the insights on criminal psychology and the way a team of experts from diverse backgrounds can come together and find a way to work as a team under tremendous pressure to solve the crimes.

The show is a little gory and gruesome, but if you can get past that it is a great psychological thriller reduced down to an hour show. Take out all the time for commercials and I think you have about 44 minutes of actual show.

The fan site has a lot of behind the scenes info and communicates fairly regularly with the actors, writers and production staff.

A Marketing Career

Years ago I wanted to get into “Sales and Marketing” primarily because I felt that the opportunities to earn what you truly deserve are more prevalent in sales positions than in traditional corporate management positions. Plus, sales is very optimistic, upbeat, forward thinking and you when you make a sale it is reason to celebrate your accomplishment. In corporate management, it is a lot of negativity, screwing people over and self serving. The only real reason a CEO has to celebrate is receipt of a fat bonus check earned off the sweat and sacrifice of all the worker bees.

In the early days when i was exploring the sales and marketing route, I asked a lot of my contemporaries, including other successful sale people and vendors, “What is the difference between “sales” and “marketing”? None of them gave me a good answer. It was only on my own exploration of the sales process and corporate structures that I discovered and embraced marketing. Over the years I’ve mastered quite a bit of the marketing principles and techniques in a variety of corporate settings. Now I am ready to step into the new millenium and learn more about internet marketing and search engine optimization.

Obviously I will make use of the internet for a lot of this effort. I have found some good articles about search engine optimization and internet marketing. One interesting aspect of the new marketing is that most of the traditional marketing logic does not apply. You have to shift mental gears into “geek think” instead of what works in the real world, because often they are very different and mistakes on your website can prove very costly and difficult to correct or overcome.

If you don’t have the time, energy and resources to learn all the search engine optimization techniques, hiring a consultant will at least get you started in the right direction. Many successful Search Engine Optimization consultants are very willing to share what they know and make the effort to communicate the internet marketing process into plain English instead of lots of geek speak mumbo jumbo. For example, take a look at some of the blogs on their sites. This is where the actual people you’ll be working with or learning from have the opportunity to express themselves in their own words - not the professional copywriter’s ad-speak.

Ross Perot is Charting Again

Remember Ross Perot? Rich guy from Texas, ran for president, made a lot of noise. A lot of what he says makes sense, and when a millionaire - or more likely billionaire - is willing to talk about money and share his insights, maybe the rest of us peasants should listen to him and take his advice. He is a powerful and persuasive speaker and is notorious for using lots of charts to illustrate his points.

Perot has launched a website called www.perotcharts.com that has . . . you guessed it! Charts.

He’s trying to help America manage it’s money and its debt. Check it out.

When You Need a Good Lawyer

Back in the day every family in our circle of acquaintances had an attorney, a doctor, a banker and a stockbroker as a personal team of professionals that were known by face and name and their phone numbers were at hand for contact, day or night. We’ve lost sight of most of those in today’s world of computers and strict 9 to 5′ers. So when you need a professional, how do you go about finding one?

What I’ve found is that if you need a good lawyer, you ask for personal references from people that you know and have used one. Another way to find one is to search the internet and read their websites. For example, one of the best attorney firms in southern California is Kestenbaum Eisner & Gorin LLP.

If you read through their website you will see their credentials and get a lot of good information, such as answers to questions about the legal process and a blog that they write with opinions on local newsworthy legal cases. Check out this link:

Criminal Attorneys in Los Angeles | California Criminal Law Questions and Discussion

So if you are in southern California or plan to travel there, I would bookmark this website and if you have a need for a good attorney, you will already have their name and number handy.

Shout Out to Jasper

Jasper has a blog and he comes up with the coolest things. I don’t know what media he reads or listens to, but he’s got it going on.

For a college kid he writes about a lot of different things, with your typical sports and gadget stuff, but he’s got thoughts on culture and humanity that make you think, too.

I like what he said about global warming. I think this subject is on everyone’s mind, thanks in a large part to Al Gore making it an issue. I’m glad the kids are taking it seriously, too - they are our future, after all.