November 2008

How Secure is Your Password?

Found a fantastic site today that gauges the strength of passwords. The bad news is that a hacker can crack one of my blog passwords in 19 hours. The good news is my major work password will take 402,895,492 days to crack. Unsure how safe YOUR password is?  Give this Brute Force Calculator a try.  [...]

Barack Obama and Relationship Marketing

I’ve been thinking a lot about the election returns yesterday – and why Barack Obama was so successful. The reasons, of course, are many. Economy, war, hopelessness, being mired in a broken political system–all messages and issues that will get out votes in just about every election. But beyond that, I attribute at least part [...]

Review: Thumbs Up: The Contrarian Effect

Michael Port, author of Booked Solid and Beyond Booked Solid, is out with yet another winner – The Contrarian Effect – Why It Pays Big to Take Typical Sales Advice and Do the Opposite. The premise of Port’s newest book (written with Elizabeth Marshall) is that old sales tactics (cold calls, high pressure sales, door-to-door [...]

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