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Build Your Social Community Around Purpose (Not Product)

Build Your Social Media Community Around Purpose (Not Product) - Eric Ungs

What is the purpose of your company?

Why do you even exist?

What is your reason for being?

The way of doing business is rapidly changing. People are much more connected and their expectations for brands are much more personal.

People don’t expect to be friends with you (a friend is someone I call when my dog dies), but they do expect to develop relationships with brands based on shared interests, beliefs and lifestyles.

You are now a midst the relationship era. Where developing deep connections and relationships feeds long term growth.

Know your purpose to build relationships

Relationships matter and make a difference, not sales. Your purpose isn’t about sales. Yes, you need money to keep the lights one. Yes, you love money and probably want more of it.

But, you need to think deeper.

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7 Books to Put On Your Spring and Summer Reading List

7 Books to Put On Your Spring and Summer Reading List - Eric Ungs

Ever since my son was born 10 months ago (can’t believe it! time flies) I just haven’t been able to sit down and open a book. It’s not that I don’t have the time, it’s just a whole new life that I am adjusting to and balancing.

Just recently I picked up a book and finished it in three days (see Fred 2.0 below). I completely forgot the feeling I get when reading a book; being completely fascinated and fixated on the words and the story. Escaping your surroundings to such a serene state of mind allowing yourself to just think. It’s magical, peaceful and rejuvenating.

I’ve compiled a list of books that I want to tackle this Spring and Summer, hoping to get to them all. The topics range in genre, this is done intentionally to maintain that serene momentum and not get burnt out from a reptitive theme.

The following is a list of 7 books to put on your reading list:

Fred 2.0

New Ideas on How to Keep Delivering Extraordinary Results by Mark Sanborn

Fred 2.0 is derived from the Fred Factor written nearly 10 years ago. Fred 2.0 illustrates how to take the ordinary and become truly extraordinary. By making a difference in other peoples lives, not only does it impact those people, it will leave a lasting affect on you; you’re life, your happiness.

Simply put, your life is what you make it. Turn the ordinary into extraordinary. (Tweet this)

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Death to Google Reader: So What’s the Future for RSS?

Google Reader

Google Reader has made a shock wave throughout all interwebs over the course of 48 hours. Petitions, groups, communities, hashtags hoping to grab the attention of the mighty search giant. Google announced on Wednesday that they will be killing off 7-year old Google Reader on July 1, 2013. Google sited that the project was declining in total usage and [...]

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5 Tips to Increase Productivity Using Asana

Task List post its

Have you considered using a task management tool to increase your productivity? Does your task list look like what’s shown in the image above? (eeek…. organization!) Finding a task management tool and system that works for you can take months, or sometimes years. It’s a trial and error process. Over the years I have tried [...]

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Has Facebook Really Failed Us?

Facebook Map

Have you ever written a comment on a blog post and realized, “damn this is longer than some of my blog posts”? I just finished reading a great post on {grow}, (Mark Schaefer’s blog) titled “Facebook, You’ve Failed Us” written by Neicole Crepeau (@neicolec). I always enjoy these conversations around Facebook and their future because there [...]

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Steve Jobs Biography Book Review: From LSD to Apple

Steve Jobs

From Steve Jobs’ very first beginnings to his final breath is truly an inspiring and fascinating tale (iTunes link, only fitting to read it this way). Steve Jobs is one of the most fascinating individuals of our time. Walter Isaacson does it Pulitzer Prize style in delivering the true colors of Jobs. “Sometimes the truth hurts. [...]

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