How much do you love what you do?
How far will you go to get what you want?
Do you really care?

An oven built by hand, tile by tile. Four pizzas on the menu, with no fancy-pants toppings. Anthony Mangieri does one thing at Una Pizza Napoletana.

Sure, this might be obsessive. But isn’t that how every business should look?

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If you’re gonna crush it, you need to know whats going on in your game. You gotta be all over it.

That means keeping track of the conversation that are going on all over the web. Here’s how to do it with 2 free google tools….

Are you on top of your game? Do you know what your competitors are talking about – what they’re saying? and how they’re saying it?

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Thumbvu is a new site developed by John Guanzon designed to help build your mailing list as well as your social mojo.

I hooked up with John for a sneak skype interview before the official launch and you can watch it here for free. No optin required, just pure content. Of course I’m giving away a special bonus for anyone who registers through the Silicon Shovel link – just read the intructions below the video.

The official launch date for thumbvu is 5th January 2009 but you can pre-register before then and you get exclusive access to an interview with Jon Olson, a true mastermind of the traffic exchange industry.

Click this link to REGISTER FOR THUMBVU

Silicon Shovel Bonuses

When you join thumbvu using the link above , you will receive a bonus of 2,000 credits at Jetstreamtraffic.

If you take the upgrade at thumbvu, I’ll match it with an equivalent Club Class upgrade at Jetstreamtraffic.

To claim your bonus, just leave a comment below (use the same email address as you have registered at Jetstreamtraffic – it will be kept totally private). If you have any concerns though, you can also leave a support ticket.

Of course, I’d love to read your comments on thumbvu and if there is anything else I can help with, please let me know below.

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TED is like YouTube for smart people. Smart people who think and act big and make their mark in their world. The videos are usually less than 18 minutes long and cover just about every subject you can imagine from the greatest thinkers in the known universe.

If you really need some motivation to get your big ideas off the ground stop what you’re doing, go watch some TED videos and return to your work. It’s guaranteed to make you think bigger.

Here I handpicked 5 of my recent favorites to get you started. I promise you’ll find something amazing.

Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology

How forward thinking turned a simple mouse into a go-anywhere minority report. Then gives it away.

Rory Sutherland: Life lessons from an ad man

Hilariously entertaining. Rory Sutherland makes the daring assertion that a change in perceived value can be just as satisfying as what we consider “real” value — and his conclusion has interesting consequences for how we look at life.

David Logan on tribal leadership

At TEDxUSC, David Logan talks about the five kinds of tribes that humans naturally form — in schools, workplaces, even the driver’s license bureau. By understanding our shared tribal tendencies, we can help lead each other to become better individuals.

Michael Pritchard’s water filter turns filthy water drinkable

Too much of the world lacks access to clean drinking water. Engineer Michael Pritchard did something about it — inventing the portable Lifesaver filter, which can make the most revolting water drinkable in seconds. An amazing demo from TEDGlobal 2009.

Robert Lang folds way-new origami

Robert Lang is a pioneer of the newest kind of origami — using math and engineering principles to fold mind-blowingly intricate designs that are beautiful and, sometimes, very useful.

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“Books are souvenirs. There is nothing that can be found in a book that can’t be found on the internet”

Information is instant and the only reason for buying a book is as a trophy. Seth talks about his outlaw distribution methods to put his 10 books in front of millions of readers. Not to make money from books, but to play with the flow of information in the silicon age.

“The enemy of the author is not piracy, but obscurity”

Godin doesn’t write books to compete with hundreds of thousands of other authors on the bookshelf. Instead he gives away the content for free and starts a conversation based on the permission of his audience. This allows him to use free channels to reach the people that want to be reached and then leaves the rest up to human nature.

And of course, tribalism helps.

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Beatboxing has evolved a hell of a lot since its roots in the 80′s and there is a particularly killer scene in the UK. This is the next level, layering flutes, harmonicas and oral gymnastics to weave a harmonic fabric that wraps around your ears and warms your soul.

But what does Beatboxing have to do with Your Business?

First – it doesn’t matter. It’s just really cool so just enjoy it for what it is.

Second – beatboxing is no longer groundbreaking. It takes leaps like these to move things forward and innovate.

You’ll be surprised but there are a lot of parallels between the evolution of the internet and beatboxing. Here are a few that you can apply to your world.

1. Find new Synergies

Combining old technologies is the perfect way to create new flavours – who ever thought of putting a harmonica and a beatboxer together? Can you create some new synergies from the status quo?

Yuri Lane Plays Harmonica Beatbox

2. Find your Flute

Now everyone can beatbox – but I bet you can’t play the flute at the same time. Find your flute.

Nathan (Flutebox) Lee and Beardyman rock Google

3. Widen your Channel

It’s no longer good enough to reach your audience through the old channels. That’s what everyone else is doing and no-one is listening. Try beatboxing at a corporate event to touch new people in new ways, when they least expect it. Widen your channel.

4. Find a New Approach

Most people don’t expect female beatboxers to be able to hit the low end vocals. But the sound comes from the mouth, not the vocal chords so these girls can blast beats with the best of them. Try approaching your customers from a different angle to surprise and amaze them.

Fati, Cheryl, Squeak and Steffe la Chef live in Berlin

5. Create new Worlds

Beatboxing is no longer just a hip hop thing. You can apply the same skills to explore sub genres and create entirely new scenes.

Dub FX Layers up “Love Someone” in Bristol

6. Blow Someone’s Mind

Beatboxers don’t sell shit – they just make music that blows your mind. That’s the hook that gets your attention. What’s yours?

Can you beatbox? Can you blow someone’s mind? I’d love to read your comments below.

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Here’s a brilliant video filled with clearcut actionable tactics for improving your blog, so if you have a spare hour go grab a coffee, sit back and take some notes. Even if you don’t have a blog (you should have) it applies equally to any other website. Learn -

1. How to monitor on-site reader activity
2. How to implement and test tweaks for a big impact
3. How to use twitter to improve your blog
4. The importance of honing your ‘voice’
5. How to edit and optimize your posts

The take home message
Make small changes – track the results – work with what works.
And “Take fun Seriously”

If you found the video useful or if you thought it was a waste of time, you know what to do in the comments below…

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At the end of June I went to the Insider Festival in Aviemore, Scotland. It was pretty special because it was organized by a few of my best mates and it was the first ever Insider. I just discovered this video on Youtube and it brought the good times flooding back, so I thought I’d share it with you. Look closely and you can see me bouncing around in there somewhere.

It’s a class tune with some really inspiring lyrics and if that’s not enough, the woman on the left near the very end is almost 80 and she had just returned from a trip cycling across North America. She even had to stop half way to have a pacemaker fitted!

Enjoy…..

And remember – “You have to do it while you can”

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Since you’re reading this, this following video applies to you. I can’t tell you what an impact it had on me – it’s simply the most powerful social media video I’ve ever seen. In fact, it’s probably the biggest reason why I launched my blog right now and not later as I had planned. Once you understand how to really leverage facebook and all the other web 2.0 social sites, you’ll see how powerful it can be. And simple.

Don’t forget to add your comment below (and some link love would be nice…)

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RSS is the acronym for “Really Simple Syndication”.

But I was amazed at the number of my friends and colleagues who either don’t know what rss does or how to use it.

How does RSS work?

Dynamic websites are frequently updated with fresh content and rss is the simplest way of staying up-to-date with news channels, blogs and scientific databases. The reader is able to aggregate all of the fresh content into a single page and receive updates in real time without visiting dozens of sites.

Watch the video and learn

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