As I have listened to many advent sermons, I have been struck by how many contain the message of the resurrection within them. I understand their reasoning, but when I read the Christmas story, I read myself into the story. I recognize the miraculous events that surround his birth and I recognize that something is …
After your ideas have simmered and you have a good idea about what you want your affiliate marketing experience to be, then you have your wings. You are ready to create content, to pursue affiliate programs for you and you are ready to invite others to experience that with you. In other words, you are …
Once you have read and crawled around in the world of affiliate marketing, you have to let the ideas simmer. This is where I am in the process. I know the basic terminology. I know the reasoning behind affiliate marketing, but I am still working on where I fit in the world of affiliate marketing. …
Once you realize that you have some applicable experiences as a teacher that would serve you well in the world of marketing, you have to crawl around in the affiliate marketing world. First, you have to think of what you have to offer to this new environment, which means you have to have something to …
In order to envision yourself as a marketer, you have to consider how many applicable experiences teaching has given you for the marketing world. You know how to sell. How many students have you convinced to try something that they claimed they “hated?” How many parents have you persuaded that you were really working with …
You are really in three different worlds while working in marketing, teaching and pursuing seminary, aren’t you? I’ve gotten this response quite often this fall and I can understand the initial reaction, but we don’t live in an compartmentalized world. I would argue that we never have. With my History 5 students last year, I …
The mechanic monotony of the windshield wipers of the numerous cars across the parking lot reminded me that I can’t sit still. I know that most teachers I talk to think that they way I see marketing and teaching’s inevitable merge as inconsequential, but I don’t and I won’t. Else, this is the future of …
There was a trend on Twitter identified not by a hash tag, but rather a yellow sign placed in the bottom left corner of your Twitter profile picture that looked a little like this: I understand that this provides a continuity and a marketing symbol for the movement, but the Save our Schools March was …
In preparing for my first Affiliate Summit, Geekcast has become an essential weekly podcast. The discussion this week started with business cards and whether they were old school or not. They argue that the card can help you recall someone’s name or company: What was that guy’s company name? The card will help me …
Should unlimited access between teachers and students through social media be restricted? School administrators acknowledge that the vast majority of teachers use social media appropriately. But they also say they are increasingly finding compelling reasons to limit teacher-student contact. School boards in California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Virginia …
