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  • Content creates opportunities

    07 September 2010

    So it's been a shade over a month since I started Meet My Followers.  I've had a ton of support and retweets and all kinds of people wishing the success for the show.  I've also had a couple people seriously doubt whether the show should continue.  What hurts is that those folks who question it are those who I respect the most. I have to look at the results though: It's a lot of work daily to record, produce, edit, encode and blog.  Yet I regularly find that it's the absolute highlight of every day. Some quick stats: Over 2,100 page views by more than 700 unique visitors from 28 countries who downloaded more than 1,000 episodes in the first 30 days of operation I've been introduced to or recommended to follow more than 3 dozen people "off air" in addition to the 2 dozen or so that were mentioned on the show who I already wasn't following I've received compliments from many people regarding my voice including someone who formerly hosted a morning radio show and a top blogger who said I missed my calling by not being in radio. All but 5 episodes have had a sponsor that are helping make the podcast possible. Those ...

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  • The importance of making the ask

    02 August 2010

    Most people are scared to ask for what they want in life.  Some people are fearful they'll get it.  Some fear that they'll be laughed at for even asking. I've had several conversations over the last few months where people who are well known and well respected in their industries have said to me something to the effect of "I wish I could help more but I don't even know where to start."  These are people who get consulting fees for thousands of dollars a month.  They want to help people because that's genuinely who they are and they had folks who helped them along the way so it was time to pay it forward.  You could be one of those folks they choose to help free of charge simply because you asked.  But you didn't. Making the ask is something that I wish I had learned to do earlier in my life.  I used to avoid asking for anything as long as I possibly could.  There are several occasions where things were downright awkward because I wouldn't make the ask.  Be it the pretty girl in class next to me for a date, an employer for a raise or a friend ...

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  • Why today isn’t the best time ever to be an entrepreneur

    22 July 2010

    [caption id="attachment_130" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="credit: flickr genbug"][/caption] This morning Milind and I got to talking over IM. Our conversation revolved around downloadable content and entrepreneurialism. Milind echoed a statement that has been said by many industry pundits. He said, "It's an exciting time to be alive." It's statements like that which always leave me a little miffed. I typed back "Do you think that people didn't think that it was a great time to be alive when TV was 5 years old?" People see the world the way that they want to. No one wants to think they lived at the worst time ever. Even those who lived through the Great Depression didn't believe it to be the worst time ever. Our conversation then made a stronger move toward entrepreneurship. Milind echoed a point that the barriers are now gone. Our mutual friend Gary Vaynerchuk has said may times. Once again, I wanted to challenge Milind's beliefs here because I think his statements show he's thinking about only his own experience. Given his own experience, he's perfectly right. There isn't a ...

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  • When things go wrong…

    28 January 2010

    Today I got a random phone call that really made me angry.  I worked incredibly hard to make a business deal happen and got everything all tied off....delivery made at the dock....ready to be trucked over to Vegas.  For reasons unknown, 500 copies of a book never made the truck.  In typical Kade fashion I got the books and resolved the problem my own way.  Issue resolved.  Anyway I got to go crank and make things happen with the crew.

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  • Compete

    24 January 2010

    One of the few folks who I look back on as really having a profound impact on my life was my high school baseball coach Rob Stewart.  From the first time he told me to get lost at Irvine High when he was talking to a junior who would soon be drafted into the minor leagues to the time that I became his right fielder and even when everything fell apart for me in the form of competitive baseball he always seemed willing to give life lessons when I was ready to hear them.   Over the course of the last few weeks I've been watching Leeds United (a third division English soccer club) play against some of the top clubs in the world in the FA Cup.  They've beat quite possibly the best team in the world (Manchester United) and forced a replay against Tottenham.  The heart of this team reminds me of something Coach Stewart taught me many years ago: Compete. Nothing else matters when you go out, try your hardest and find someway to play up to those who you have no right to be competitive with.  Even when those games come around when you simply don't have the ...

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  • Just when I thought it was over…

    10 January 2010

    This evening I received the following tweet from my friend Chris Conrey: Truth be told, BeCovalent is a baby business of mine that I had literally decided to slow down the growth of...stunting it even to the point where I would pull down the website.  It's not the business didn't achieve the goals I had set out for it. Rather it simply failed to meet my one requirement for classifying it as a business: cash flow.   The deal with BeCovalent is that it's a mastermind group but in a different kind of way.  I make sure the groups are small, diverse, and incredibly intimate.  I build trust to the point that NDAs aren't required and that members don't even think about bringing them in.  Basically, this is an excuse for me to get together once a week with people who I want to learn from.  The plan was to build a few groups (which thankfully I now have) and then to bring in more businesses who met the specs and charge them a monthly fee to compensate me for my time, bringing the right group together and the additional services I ...

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