Kingston Beta: How will 4G broadband boost Tech entrepreneurship in Jamaica?

How will 4G broadband boost Tech entrepreneurship in Jamaica, will be the  focus of a townhall type discussion tomorrow at Kingston Beta at the Spanish Court Hotel, New Kingston at 6:30pm. It is free. A SiliconValley based entrepreneur Peter Rothman will be co-hosting the discussion with me. Kingston Beta is the bimonthly networking event and [...]

Why Jamaican companies should stay away from Social Media

Over the past year, especially the last 6 months I’ve been involved in many client meetings, speaking at workshops, hosting trend briefings- sitting with, listening to, fielding questions from and guiding clients who are executives and entrepreneurs across various industries. The two words on everyone’s lips – social media. The brands everyone’s talking about – [...]

Epic Jostling for position in the marketing industry and for clients?

As a digital marketing strategist who runs a 3 year old boutique digital marketing agency ConnectiMass, in the past year, I’ve gotten caught up inwhat’s becoming an epic struggle that’s bubbling beneath the surface of the marketing industry. It’s local, regional and global. Some digital marketing agencies are starting to offer more traditional services. Traditional [...]

My Personal Brand on a Facebook Page…working on it..

Some of my Jamaican industry peers did it before me,all of them within the last 30 days David Mullings, Khary Sharpe and Dale Kurt Murray launched their personal brands on a Facebook Page. Today I soft launched mine. I Just added the blog feed, photo and details. You can connect with me here on Facebook [...]

I wish they had said something nice

I happened on a tweet in my stream the other day. It lambasted a local baked goods company for their now miniscule portions of a filling in one of its baked products. The unhappy customer took a photo and shared it with their 1000 followers. I saw it, emailed it to the local baked goods [...]

Gary Vaynerchuk VIDEO:The Internet is the most underrated medium ever, a game changing opportunity. How can YOU benefit?

Some key points: The Internet as we know it is just 14 years old. Social Media sites as we know now, weren’t around 5 years ago. The Internet is the underestimated, underrated medium ever and it represents such a game changing opportunity, a great lever of the playing field. My Two cents: This is THE [...]

Jamaicans Destined ONLY to be cheap worker bees,Never wealthy entrepreneurs?

Does the fact that for the most part Jamaicans are laid back, love a good lime make us destined ONLY to be cheap worker bees,never wealth builders and successful entrepreneurs? Or, is it our culture of hustling vs one of building and passing on knowledge and wealth in the family structure ? Is it that [...]

From Free Agent to Entrepreneur

Been thinking alot these days about how I do business, about where I am, where my company, my evens, blog and agency brands are in the grand scheme of things. My intention was always to create highly profitable businesses that could run without me being involved everyday, in every way…even as I went through my [...]

Successful Business Defined

1. Can be leveraged..I’m not needed to do the work. 2. The money is predictable…daily, weekly, monthly etc 3. It’s scalable, expandable. source: RichDad, Robert Kiyosaki

Seth Godin On What It Takes To Be An Entrepreneur Way Beyond 2010

Some entrepreneurial boost this Friday. therisetothetop.com is a blog I visit pretty regularly. So when they also interview Seth Godin, business thinker, marketing guru one of the people who’s books I’ve read, and who’s blog I have with my morning eggwhite omletes- I watch and pass it on. Seth Godin answers the question- what does [...]