What a $15,000,000 horse looks like

So after speaking this morning to a company in Lexington, Kentucky, I was invited to Castelton Lyons, a horse farm here outside of Lexington owned by Tony Ryan, (the founder of RyanAir.)
I got to pet Toccet, son of Awesome Again and Cozzene’s Angel, (by Cozzene.)
What makes a horse a $15,000,000 horse? Bloodline, bloodline, bloodline, and [...]



Are you making your clients feel like rock stars?

One of the reasons my clients tell me that they stay with me and recommend me to other companies (in addition, I suppose, because I do great work) is because I do things for them that they don’t expect. I show up at their offices without warning at 12:30 in the afternoon carrying a pizza. [...]



Today’s Poll: What’s your email sig file?

With so many socnets out there now, and all of them having different contact means, I thought it time to update my email signature file. Was curious as to what yours was.
Mine:
Peter ShankmanWorldwide: (cell phone number)Me on: AIM, Skype, Twitter, FacebookCEO, Geek Factory, Founder, TripLife/AirTroductionsPR. Differently – The BlogCan We Do That?! The Book
Make sense? [...]



Now where did I put your files?

My friend David regales us this morning with a story about questionable (not bad, just questionable) branding.
Seems David wanted to buy a 2-gig thumb drive. He went with SanDisk, one of the leaders in the field.
Getting to the store, he sees row after row of thumb drives. SanDisk’s drive stuck out in his mind though. [...]



An Inspirational Message on 9/11 from Brian Germain

From Brian Germain, a skydiver, author, motivational speaker, and friend.
A message to the people of Earth:
We are bound in our journey;from fear into fearless compassion.Let us not contract into a shadowy version of who we could be,but expand outward into unlimited possibility.
We must let go of the traumaand return to a state of peace.Only then [...]