If people don’t like my blog that’s cool – but they can’t say they are not sure on my standpoint on an issue LOL

I’ve seen dealers out hear get fired from one place, for “funny stuff”, and end up in another casino (probably because the firing location either wasn’t called for referral, or they couldn’t say anything for fear of some legal thing–or maybe because they wanted the crooked ones at a competitor, who knows the real back story). It can be pretty ridiculous sometimes.

Be good!

Something about your long term customer penalty comment above seemed to “click” with me, as I’ve had similar thoughts.

This made me think about what I’d do if you also had contrasting views on “emotionally charged” issues. I think instead of ignoring it, I’d take it in as part of the potential learning experience.

There was a great post over on Kelly’s site that kinda re-opened my eyes to a few things, totally unrelated to the actual examples in the post. I paraphrase poorly… Be yourself, or people won’t know who you are–and you have to put up a front…which sucks for everyone
http://www.kellydiels.com/2010/01/31/on-risk-relationships-and-gd-patriarchy-a-polemic/

I, of course support whatever you do, and look forward to the good and gray times ahead

-Tim

I guess the question is whether you are willing to risk segmenting your potential business market based on such things. It’s a strategy that’s worked for some. I mean, Johnny’s penis jokes and foul mouth are certainly segmenting his market… as are Naomi’s, and countless others.

Just stay away from the poker tables, you’ll get slaughtered by teamwork

This has led me to segment my content a lot more than I’ve probably needed to. So, instead of finding a place for a post about a funny thing my wife did or a quick rant about how much I hate companies that use a business model that penalizes long term customers, I’m going to treat this place more like I treat twitter.

Come, read what you want, get value out of what you can, and ignore anything you don’t like or enjoy.

I thought you past this point a long time ago :.)

And that’s the thing really, we all have this notion of how we have to be online to get clients or make sales or be successful when in reality, it’s making the connections that will do that for us. If you can connect by being incredibly useful all the time, go for it. But I can tell you it’s pretty tiring and it can just as easily be done writing a post about your son and story time.