When we say we travel to teach you how to make your business better, we mean it. We’re headed to the White Mountain’s in NH to teach our classes in Lincoln, NH in March. Thanks to the Lincoln Woodstock Chamber, Kancamagus Lodge, Beacon Resort and Brittany’s Cafe Food and Spirits we’ll be bringing our knowledge [...]

Uptown Uncorked underwent some changes to help us better reflect what we do to make your business better. We have a new name: Magnitude Media, and a new web site, Facebook page and Twitter. We have become laser focused toward helping small business and struggling entrepreneurs, with new price points and more portable options designed [...]

Recently, I took a month (well, 40 days, to be exact) to just listen online instead of blogging. It gave me a unique opportunity to examine how much content and interaction out there is of value and how much is just so much regurgitated noise. While I was listening, I also turned off all of [...]

I’ve been spending more and more time in Maine in the last year helping folks learn new ways of doing business. Recently I spoke at Social Media FTW in Portland, ME and at Accelerate Maine in Bangor, ME. Social Media FTW had nearly 500 attendees, and Accelerate Maine had nearly 200 – that’s a lot [...]

Inspired by a TedX talk, I share why I do what I do, and ask why you do what you do. The talk that inspired me and the Twitter friend’s blog I heard it from

I started offering a la carte services this week. Well, I’ve always offered them, but haven’t had them published in an accessible fashion before. Why try to (what some may consider) ‘down sell’ a potential client? It’s pretty simple: business under a certain size need help and need to accelerate their learning curve, but they [...]

It is relatively common for every 20 or so proposals sent to turn up at least one recipient who replies “Well that’s great, but I really just wanted someone to ‘create buzz’, can you A) take out [essential proposal component] B) take out [business development component] C) charge less but do all of the work [...]

I get asked several times a day to meet for “picking my brain”. When I do have time (which is rare) and get to help someone, I get told “You should make this a service you offer!” I tweeted that out tongue in cheek today, and the response via DM and email to really make [...]

On occasion people ask me why I don’t post more here. It isn’t that I don’t have valuable information to share with you, I do. In fact, I have so many post ideas and things I want to share with you in my head it gets a bit crowded sometimes. I tend to wander around [...]