You Don’t Know Squat About Hispanics
Subtitle: Hispanic Media Myths A great article…it even seems to have some picante to it as it’s spiced up with some humor and witty lines. If you have some image in your head of a poor campesino looking confusedly at a computer screen, delete it. Replace that with an image of Perez Hilton tweeting and blogging and instant-messaging all day. In fact, Latinos far... Read More
Using Twitter To Stop Spammers
I started a hastag (#) – actually rediscovered – to help fight against Twitter spam: #unfollow. It’s a good way to use Twitter’s own basic tools to fight back against spammers. Use #unfollow to share with others and cut back on Twitterspam. (And, then of course follow up by blocking them from your account.) Like for instance, this guy: wayne10005. He... Read More
Busy Is, As Busy Does
I’ve been reading a ton of information on Social Media; add: a NY based Latino Social Media group just got off the ground; add: organizing a business, including legal stuff, networking & interlinking, and new leads. This has kept me quite busy the past couple of weeks. But, I am armed with my handy, dandy Blackberry Curve and my day planner and realize I have to make... Read More
25 Personal Brand Manifestos
This would be a follow-up post to my “Is Your Brand Bull?” post. Via the BuzzBin: 1) The online community — a.k.a. the market — doesn’t give a damn about your personal brand. 2) The only people who give a crap about personal brands are the personas trying to prop them up as a business model. 3) While personal brands are concerned with themselves, the market is... Read More
Twitter In Its Basic
Posted a great introduction on the core basic principle behind Twitter over at LatinoPundit. AKPC_IDS += "27,";Popularity: 1% [?] Read More
The 20-min Move
It took me an overall 20 minutes to land here on this WordPress platform, hosted on by my own server: I moved from Blogger (www.louispagan.blogspot.com) to WordPress (www.louispagan.wordpress.com) to my own domain (www.louispagan.com), in two days that took about 20 min overall. Ten minutes to install WP on my existing host account (I had more room than I thought/and they had a... Read More
1-2-3….Contact
Reaching deep into a well of contacts on social sites, old media and old friends, because it is not what you know, but who you know. I’m also starting to make cold contacts. I’ve learned some techniques while I was in Amway (not a bad word), years ago that need dusting off, as well as some new techniques. Hmm…this would be a great topic for the next post. See... Read More
I Twiter, Therefore I am
I’ve a number of sites: LatinoPundit.com, LouisPagan.com as well as a private one or two, not to mention some upcoming ones. Each site serves a specific goal. Twitter however…ah Twitter, will server as a conglomerate of everything. Tweet along, my friends. Tweeeeeeet! AKPC_IDS += "10,";Popularity: 1% [?] Read More
Time Can Be More Valuable Than Money
I checked my inbox to see what my sub-contractor had completed. A weird satisfaction settled over me as I listened to the embedded song in a flash banner pumping over the speakers – a job several weeks past due. Not bad, I thought. Here I am, looking at a job complete which I had not worked on personally. Sweet! Being extremely busy, I hardly have time to do everything... Read More
Is Your Brand Bull?
I see a lot of people using slick buzz words, and playing/dressing the part. Usually, after a few minutes or days of talking/working with them one begins to realize that they are not “The Real McCoy,” and when it comes down for show and prove time they come up lacking. The old package of “we are all salesmen,” has been repackaged with the ultra-slick catch... Read More
The Power Hour
We all are busy. But, if I let that be my excuse not to get anything done, and not to advance then I’m really not fighting back. Many things take up my valuable time and I counter this by waking up an hour early to get some things done. It’s my power-hour. I don’t mean doing the laundry or getting some project done, or catching up on chores. None of that.... Read More
Lie To Me
I’ve read in many places that the one person we lie to most of the time is ourselves. Hands down guilty. For example, I love writing (it’s not the writing I love, but the enjoyment I get from interacting with others). One of the most glorified class of writers are the novelists (IMO). The excellent ones become immortal. Put together my passion for writing and reading... Read More
The Entrepreneur
There are not going to be any specifics in this post. I am going to keep it absurdly vague and general. In a week’s time, I came up with three business ventures. As well as how to get the leg work done faster (and more importantly – smarter). I am all about streamlining now. It’s funny though…it was more exciting while I was brainstorming, but now that I... Read More
