Hi everyone, it’s been too long.

Over the past year I have been as close to being “in hiding” as I have ever been. Life has thrown me a few curve-balls, but I have laid low and life has worked itself out very much for the better and I’m happier than I have ever been.

Here’s what I’ve been up to recently——-> Reauthored

What’s ReAuthored? If you didn’t look at the link yet, ReAuthored is an idea that I have been working on in which I take old and discarded books and turn them into cases for the Kindle, Nook, Kobo ect. The cases are all handmade and are designed to protect and secure your e-reader while giving the aesthetic appeal of a real book. Each one is as unique as the original book and they are made to last.

The big news is that the site is now live and loaded.

This is a scary endeavor for me since I am now unemployed and doing my best to not go back and work for someone else. The technology accessories market is insane, there are about 66 million page returns from a Google search of Kindle Case! There are so many products that I am competing with out there its tough to know if I am doing something foolish or not. I’ve gotten great feedback since I first had the idea, but turning positive feedback into revenue is a long journey.

The Million Dollar Question

What you think?

I am looking for anyone and everyone to take a look at the site, the product and let me know what you think and what I should be doing, not doing ect.

Seriously. Call me (573.990.1031)Email me: jc@reauthored.com Send me a telegram……. just let me know what you think.

Everyone has a different view of sales and selling, but there is one thing we can all agree on; We want to sell more.

Just like any position or profession, we should all strive to increase our skill level on a daily basis. Sales however can be a tough profession to “study-up” on because it is such a vague profession. We may all be essentially doing the same thing, but each of us and each of our products are probably very different.

The thing that is universal about sales is that when you break it down to its fundamentals, it is the same for every person and every product. continue reading…

Lets get something straight right out of the gate.

I don’t want your direct messages about making money.

Nobody else does either.

Over the past few weeks I have started to track the amount of direct messages I get on Twitter every day. I average between 15 and continue reading…

Over the past 6 months I have had about 12 different Twitter apps for the Iphone and all of them have sucked. A great number of them were proficient at 1 thing,  sending and receiving tweets. That is perfectly fine if all you want to do is send and receive tweets like text messages, but I wanted to try and get more out of the platform. The problem I had was that I have fallen in love with the lists, direct messages, mentions, ect ect that twitter offers and none of the apps I came across could do all of them until I found Twitbird.

Twitbird is way down the list of top grossing or top downloaded apps in the utilities or social networking categories of the app store, but I have yet to understand why. This is literally the end-all twitter application. I now have full use of all of the tools that twitter has to offer: lists, direct messages, mentions, tracking, search, profile, ect ect.

Why do I care? It’s because I have crapped away about 20 hours of time looking for an app that does all of the things that Twitter offers and I am trying to save you the 20 hours of wasted time. continue reading…

Here it is, my overall goal list for 2010.  It’s quick, it’s candid and it’s honest. Literally copied and pasted from the word doc file I keep them in.

1. Average closing 6-8 transactions per month:
   1. Continuously improving efficiency
   2. b. Stay genuinely connected with clients from start to finish
   3. Make no less than $100,000 in income
2. Improve my health by:
   1. Working out at least 3-4 days a week
   2. Completely break poor eating habits
3. Get closer to God by:
   1. Correcting poor habits
   2. Surrounding myself with positive people
   3. Attending Church/study sessions
   4. Taking initiative to study and pray
4. Family:
   1. Make Alison part of the family
   2. Taking the hour and a half to go see my brother in STL
   3. Take the time to actually talk to my parents
5. Become closer to Alison by:
   1. Taking our trip to Mexico
   2. Making time
   3. Finding her a new occupation
6. Properly split personal and work time:
   1. Make a daily schedule and follow it
   2. Write plans and take steps FORWARD each day
7. Buy a house
   1. Make myself a sanctuary where I can relax
   2. Rebuild my home office
8. Build my social network
   1. Introduce myself to at least 2 new people a day
   2. Add 100+ friends/followers a day to social network
9. Buy a new Motorcycle
   1. Keep my eyes open for deals
   2. Stop searching and commit

10.  Get back into Music

1.  Start taking Piano lessons again

2.  Get back into classical vocals

3.  Perform at Ryman Auditorium