Eric Greenspan

From the monthly archives:

November 2009

140 Conference “Meetup” in LA with Jeff Pulver (creator: #140conf)

November 11, 2009

THIS EVENT IS FROM DECEMBER 2009. FOR THE MAY 2010 EVENT, PLEASE VISIT THE MEETUP SITE HERE. Hear the CBS Tech News radio coverage here: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] HURRY, REGISTRATION WILL SOON BE FULL! Join us at the 140 Conference LA Meetup, a “slimmed-down” version of the 140 Conference, from 5pm [...]

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The Riskmaster, lyrics by Tim Draper of DFJ

November 11, 2009

First, my thanks to Tim Draper for allowing me to use his song in my entrepreneur presentations at UCLA, Anderson School of Business and USC, Marshall School of Business. This song is the heart and soul of many entrepreneurs like me and I love sharing it. I’m actually working (per Tim’s request) on a new [...]

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Santa Barbara: the home of the clicks (and the calls)

November 9, 2009

Today I met with Jason Spievak, CEO of Ring Revenue. Jason is another local Santa Barbara CEO and we had a great chat about Make It Work, Ring Revenue, Affiliate Marketing and life in SB. He’s a great guy and taught me a bunch of new things about affiliate marketing and his company. I will [...]

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Facebook’s Blog is a great place to keep up with FB

November 8, 2009

http://blog.facebook.com

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Do your kids Google Poo?

November 8, 2009

Last year my son Jacob was in sixth grade at Montecito Union Elementary School. One day I get an email from Ms. B, the school’s principal asking me to come into her office. I was a little wary as Jacob has never been in any trouble. I was surprised to learn that the reason she [...]

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documenting my life with my new Flip camera

November 8, 2009

I watched a webinar the other day from the King of Video Marketing, Perry Lawrence with guests Sean Malarkey and Lewis Howes called “Mastering YouTube and Video Marketing.” From it, I learned about the Flip MinoHD video camera that I can carry around and video my life. I began videoing right away (here’s my first [...]

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Google Voice voice-mails using Google Text to Speech conversion…this is hilarious!

November 6, 2009

While Make it Work keeps me very busy, I still take some time out to breathe once in a while. These are real Google Voice voice-mails converted to text by Google technology. I laugh every time I read them, so I had to share… From my brother Randy Greene: “Hey something on the phone for [...]

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RANT: Social media/marketing or is it just Sales 101-the online version?

November 5, 2009

I’ve been learning a ton about social media lately, but I have to say, I never feel like I’m actually getting anywhere with it all. I have nothing to sell really, just “call Make It Work when you need onsite computer repairs or help with your gadgets.” But I’m not really selling a product or [...]

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How I got my mortgage company to lower my payments by $10k/month

November 2, 2009

In October of 2008, I was sitting in front of Quicken about to make my mortgage payment. I looked online at Countrywide’s website and I realized I had added a ton of negatively amortized equity back into my loan over the past few years. This never mattered up until then as the house continued to [...]

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Happy Anniversary Make It Work – 8 Years Today!

November 1, 2009

I spent my week applying the new skills I obtained from attending conferences, reading and engaging in Twitter activities.  I literally have been switching from my Blackberry, to my iPhone, to my PC, back to the iPhone and on and on it goes.  From TweetDeck to Yammer, WordPress to Twitter, Google Adwords to Yahoo Search, [...]

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