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Lessons on building a social media business
Oct 22nd
Five years ago this month I left corporate America and started my own business. This event also roughly coincided with my social media journey. I usually don't spend time looking back in these posts but I have learned so much and I thought that maybe some of these lessons might help somebody out there too … so here we go.
I had always been afraid to start my own business because I feared I would not know when to stop working. I was correct in this assessment. Fortunately, it is also hard to discern what is "work" and what is "fun."
When I started my business, I could not have known at the time that it was coinciding with the beginning of a terrible recession. It didn't seem to matter because the business grew quickly, but as I look back I wonder if I would have done the same thing if I KNEW that the economy was going to tank. I think taking a blind leap probably helped me. Timing is important in business.
Building a social media business
The biggest advantage I had in starting this business was having the resources to be patient and grow my business a smart way. I often ask entrepreneurs if they are prepared to be broke for at least two years. I think that is the right mindset going in.
At the start, I didn't say "no" to anything. Every single project, writing assignment and speech helped me learn, grow, and build credibility. My first customer was a young guy starting a local catering business and today I work with Johnson & Johnson and IBM. This did not happen over night. It was relentless progression of learning and building.
The turning point for me was realizing that my blog drove my business. The more effort I put into the blog, the more my business grew. Building a portfolio of quality content and an engaged audience led to an opportunity to write a book, which led to speaking and larger assignments.
The business I have today looks nothing like the business I started. Why?
- Some of the things I thought I would like to do I actually hated. I had to pivot.
- My passion is in helping start-ups but I grew weary of dedicating myself to people with big ideas and no money for marketing those ideas. Entrepreneurs chronically overlook the critical importance of marketing.
- My business grew and flexed as the wave of social media hit the shore.
- Every new customer and assignment forged my direction in some way like a hammer pounding on a steel blade.
- When I started I had two revenue streams. Now I have 12. Some are trickles but they are streams nonetheless and something to build on.
What was my biggest mistake? Ironically, I have done a miserable job marketing myself. My website is chronically out of date, I do almost no business development and I don't even do much networking. When it comes to prioritizing my time, I put family first, clients and students second, and content creating third. I never seem to have time to market the marketing although I am taking steps to align some resources to improve this.
Unless you sell antiques for a living, you cannot dwell on the past. Reach forward and never count on riding your past accomplishments to drive your future. I am in a constant state of re-invention. Constant. Push, push, push.
One of the smartest things I did at the beginning was teach a class at a local college. This sharpened my "content voice," kept me on top of the game, helped develop ideas that became speeches and books, and created a steady stream of income. Eventually this experience also led to a teaching position at Rutgers University, which has been very rewarding. At the heart of it, I am a teacher in everything I do.
In the first 60 months of my business, there have been three amazing things that stood out for me:
- The first time somebody told me that The Tao of Twitter "changed their life." That was profound.
- Giving a 3-hour lecture at Oxford University to a packed auditorium of graduate students and faculty members. I just kept looking around thinking "I can't believe I am here." What a feeling.
- My book Return On Influence was named one of the top books of the year by the American Library Association, a designation that means it will be added to the permanent collection of university libraries.
When I decided to start my own business, I never looked back and never wavered. I was once tempted by a lucrative offer from a corporate headhunter (to lead marketing for a F500 company in New York) but other than that I have stayed the course. I think that tenacity and single-minded vision has to be there to succeed. I just can't wait to see what happens next!
Five proven ways to get more people to read your blog
Oct 21st
Over the last few weeks I have been asked many times about creating an audience for your blog, especially when you are just starting out. This is a vital topic and one that is covered extensively in the book Born to Blog, but here are a few ideas that helped me in the early stages.
What is your approach?
First let me say a word about how your goals as a blogger may relate to your approach to building an audience.
Some bloggers may be seeking raw "traffic" for their blog. This does not necessarily build an engaged audience but it can result in the "social proof" of a big number ("I had 100,000 page views this week") and it might help your cause if you are trying to make money through affiliate advertising.
My approach is not necessarily to build "traffic" who will probably never visit again, but to build an engaged audience who will directly provide business benefits of some kind. That will only come through relationships … and that only happens over time, consistent content creations, and tireless engagement.
The ideas I am presenting here are focused on building "strong link" relationships, not "weak link" traffic.
Five ideas you can use today
1) The content focus — I know this sounds like tired advice, but it is absolutely true. Your number one priority must be on creating content that adds value so people WANT to read what you have to say and come back again.
If you focus on creating content that is RITE — Relevant, Interesting, Timely, and Entertaining — over time, you will be creating content that is compelling, conversational, and shared.
2. Build a Twitter audience. This is the fastest way to build a relevant tribe. It's relatively hard to "pull" people to your blog but it is fairly easy to build a connected Twitter audience in as little as 20 minutes day. Salt in links to posts among your daily tweets. If your audience is interested in you, they will be interested in your blog too! There is an entire chapter about audience-building in The Tao of Twitter, including strategies to use Twitter Lists and Twitter Chats.
3. Activate LinkedIn groups. There are more than 1.5 million LinkedIn groups for every region and topic imaginable Find some that are relevant to you. The best way to promote your blog is to use it to be helpful. When you see an interesting question in a LinkedIn group, answer by creating a blog post. Then paste the link to your blog post as your helpful answer. Some of these forums get thousands of views.
4. Build your own blog network. When I started out ,I found a core group of beginning bloggers and we all supported each other. I knew that whatever I wrote I could count on a few comments and tweets from my blogging buddies. Not only did this offer valuable emotional support, their audience became my audience. You can often find great new blogging friends in the comment section of your favorite blogs or you might look into a more formal approach through a service like Triberr.
5. Think about your blog like your email address. This is pretty simple but overlooked. Promote your blog URL everywhere you have you email address like business cards, PowerPoint slides, newsletters, email signatures, correspondence. Most of these sources are going to be high-potential blog readers, right?
I went through a lot of trial and error as I was starting out but these five ideas that seemed to work best for me. Any tricks and tips you would like to share in the comment section?
Social media zombies and the 2 percent solution
Oct 14th
I've spent most of my career in sales and marketing and have been fairly obsessive about customer satisfaction. But it occurred to me that some of my long-held beliefs about keeping customers happy have expired. Social media zombies have turned the world of service upside-down. Maybe it's time to take a new look …
How the rules have changed
A few years ago, I was in charge of re-inventing a customer service department for a large company. During the process I searched for all the help I could get from experts and published best practices. The most important paper I found came from the University of Michigan Business School. They studied the cost versus benefit of trying to achieve "100% customer satisfaction" and came up with two important conclusions:
1) The cost of satisfying most customers is very low. Most people simply want to be acknowledged and assured that the problem is being addressed. Just good, normal business, right?
2) The other conclusion was that less than 2 percent of your customers are probably "haters" who will never be satisfied no matter what you do. They will try to "game you" for more goodies, harass you even if you respond, and just be an annoying pain in the patootie because that is how they get attention.
The researcher's conclusion was that in most cases, it is economically unwise to try to shoot for 100 percent customer satisfaction because an inordinate amount of your resources will be tied up in that difficult 2 percent. The implication is — go ahead and lose them because they are too expensive to maintain.
Unfortunately that advice is probably no longer valid because in an era where every person can publish, post, and tweet. The haters may very will control the conversation. They don't go away. They attack, attack, attack …. like social media zombies.
You can no longer ignore them. Every business needs a solution for that 2 percent they used to be able to ignore.
Neutralizing your zombies by keeping your house in order
If you have reliable products and good customer service, you're probably not going to be getting scads of zombies hating you on the web. A study I completed for a large company in the hospitality industry showed that .02 percent of their Facebook comments were negative – that is two hundredths of a percent. Hardly anything to lose sleep over and that is fairly typical if you have your house in order.
But what if you DON'T have your house in order?
One of the themes of this blog over the years has been the importance of establishing a company culture that can support the openness and responsiveness required by the social web. That is not always easy.
Another one of my clients has been paralyzed by fear over the possibility of negative comments. They were so fearful in fact that their competitors were zooming by them and their investors were getting frantic. They brought me in to help figure out a strategy.
I spent the first day trolling around their customer service department. This was the heart of the company and I needed to learn how the customers connected to them and if there were potential opportunities for solving customer problems through a social media strategy.
What I found shocked me.
Creating your own zombies
The service center was highly efficient and skilled at handling customer inquiries until there was a serious problem. If a complaint was escalated to a supervisor, the customer waited on hold an average of 10 minutes and it was not unusual for people to wait 30 minutes or more if they did not abandon the call! Perhaps before the days of the social web, a company could get away with this, but in this era, every angry customer waiting on hold is a potential zombie. What do you think they are going to do while they are waiting all that time? Complain on Facebook!
My advice was for this company to do nothing about starting their Facebook page until they could address this serious customer service issue, which they did.
98% is not good enough
Another customer of mine had introduced a new product and it became a sensation. The company was aggressively adding capacity and working like mad to keep the shipments going. They were proud that under the circumstances of overwhelming growth, they had achieved a 98 percent on-time shipping performance.
The company was shipping 2 million units per month. If 2 percent of the shipments were late, that means 40,000 people were unhappy. According to the university study I referred to, about 2 percent of those dissatisfied customers will be "haters" who receive some psychological benefit from making a company miserable. That means they were creating 800 new zombies …. every month!
You would expect that a lot of these haters would start venting about their late shipments on Facebook and Twitter.
And that is exactly what happened.
They complained and complained and complained. It was ugly. The social media undead kept battering them relentlessly, wave after wave. The company became so overwhelmed by online complaints that their customer service department could not keep up, which made it even worse. Within a few weeks, the Facebook page had become a cesspool. My advice? Shut it down, solve the shipment problem, and build a customer service strategy that could handle the toxic 2 percent.
This is a big deal … and expensive
This is the new reality of our world. Even five years ago, the University of Michigan professors were probably still correct. But today, there is little room for error, isn't there? Even a few dissatisfied customers can hijack a brand conversation. Even serving "reasonable" customers is a challenge. Social Habit research discovered that people expect brands to respond to a social media complaint within an hour, 24 hours a day.
Are you ready for that?
It seems to me there are vast implications for zombie-proofing your business in this environment, What are you seeing? Are costs going up? Customer expectations? How are you adjusting?
Illustration: Edited version of Fanboys versus Zombies magazine
Pimping your posts and the myth of the 80-20 rule
Oct 10th
I have seen this advice posted or discussed three times in the last three weeks: "You should spend 20% of your time creating social media content and 80% of your time promoting it."
This is a tweetable little sound bite that's easy to remember and pass along. But it is so whacked-out that I just have to say something about it in case anybody out there is beginning to believe it.
Let's play out this 80-20 rule logic.
What drives your business?
It may take me three hours or more to create a great blog post, a post that I know will delight my readers, attract comments, and be worthy of social "shares." On average, I try to create two of these posts every week. That's six hours spent on content, not counting editing guest posts, responding to comments, and attending to other details of the blog like finding images, etc.
If we only count the six hours I put into writing two decent posts, which is probably normal, the 80-20 rule would suggest I spend 24 hours every week pimping my content.
Obviously, if I follow this rule, I have some radical decisions to make. If I am going to promote content at this level (plus run a business!), I am going to have to seriously cut down on the amount of time I spend creating great content. Which means I either have less content, less interesting content … or both.
Let's put aside for a moment that spending 24 hours a week promoting my content is ludicrous. Let's say I do it.
Exactly WHO am I attracting by pimping my posts?
Experienced bloggers will tell you that overall, the traffic you attract from channels like Google search, StumbleUpon and even Twitter are blog tourists, not residents. In fact, about 80 percent of the traffic to my blog are first-time visitors who will never come back again.
Will these people subscribe to my blog? No.
Will they hire me or buy one of my books? No.
Will they even leave a comment on the blog? No.
So why would I focus so much effort on promotion versus creation?
A social media business truth
The only people who will create long-term business value for you is your core audience — your return readers. In fact, I think "returning readers" is the most relevant metric for business-oriented content including blogs, podcasts, videos, and even Pinterest pages.
Of course there has to be an element of promotion to help attract new readers and to help your chance of being discovered by people who want and need your content. But spending four times as much time in self-promotion versus value-creation may build traffic spikes but probably not reader loyalty.
What makes a reader love your stuff enough to want to return again and again? Is it the amount of time you spend on a blog post and audience engagement, or the amount of time you spend promoting your site?
Only quality builds a loyal audience. Only a loyal audience creates business benefits.
I rest my case.
I'll leave you with this quote from Yahoo CEO Marissa Meyer: "People who spend all their energy at making sure people know it's their idea, don't have any energy left to have new ideas."
The wonderful thing about the Internet is there really ARE no rules. If it works for some I guess that's great. What's your take on this 80-20 advice? What IS the right balance? Let me know in the comment section, won't you?
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My dear son, Bramble,
I am more than a little concerned for your "dad" who you are with now, Mr. ABC. He's been getting some very bad press: The Church's grey men are out of touch. And it seems that the Big C catholic bi-ped is getting lots of really good press… Like here, and here, and here and here. Now I know he's out of touch on a lot of other things, but there's much that your bi-ped dad could learn from the Pope.
And I can't really say that the media has missed the mark on this. In the article I mentioned, it says
The Church is run by a bunch of grey men in fancy costumes: look at any picture of the Synod and weep. They fail to represent modern Britain in any meaningful way. Welby says he wants Christians to focus less on what they are against, but sometimes in life I find that really useful. I am profoundly against inequality in any shape or form – so I find a Christian leader's refusal to accept gay marriage repugnant.
The Church must adapt to a changing society. This is not a sign of weakness, but of strength, otherwise it is shrinking its horizons, focusing on a literal interpretation of the Bible and refusing access to men and women because of their sexual orientation. Jesus would have been appalled.
This makes me very sad, son. And profoundly so, +I might add. When +I was the Bishop of Pittsburgh, I found that, as the article says, 'What the Church of England needs is a clear direction, not a load of woolly waffle about "repentance".' Wooly waffles are no good, son. I've never fancied a big plate of wooly waffles, and I can't imagine anyone else has either! But clear direction? Everyone has need of clear direction. I am now wondering if Mr. ABC was the right bi-ped for the job. Or even whether a bi-ped was the right species for the job! I should have pressed the queen harder to think about a canine or feline Archbishop!
But the good news, my son, is that there's still time to get him turned around! There's still time to get him to start working more with his heart and less with his brain! There's still time, but not much. He's got to start doing a better job of living the Gospel instead of explaining it! Bramble, if it's possible, can you tell him that I need to talk with him as soon as possible? His train is leaving the station, and Mr. ABC is not on it!
With all the love in the world,

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Everyone is looking for a way to make his or her images stand out from the crowd. Today, when the crowd is huge and websites are selling decent-quality amateur work for $1, that crowd is bigger than ever before. Innovation in lighting is at the core of being a professional photographer, and creating today's hottest, most in-demand looks is something pros do exceptionally well. We push the boundaries of creativity and we come up with the standards of tomorrow. That's how you stay ahead in a turbulent marketplace.
In this article, we spotlight some of the lighting looks that are selling right now and that clients are looking for, whether they're commissioning work or buying from stock. It can be beneficial to you to have these formulas in your repertoire as you freshen your website or send out your portfolio.
1 HDRHigh dynamic range photography isn't a lighting technique, per se, but the look is all the rage at this time, and to get the best results, it helps to think about your lighting up front in the capture phase. When photographing people and applying HDR software, more often than not, we're unable to shoot multiple images, so in the processing phase, what we're really doing is tone-mapping a single photo and not making a true HDR image. There's nothing wrong with this, but it's important to consider it up front. You want to light the scene in such a way as to gain separation between the main subject and everything else. When you apply the HDR software, you'll keep the subject and background from blending. In the November issue of DPP, we featured the photography of Blair Bunting. He's a master of using kicker lights to create that separation in his sports photographs. From there, the HDR effects have more drama because the main subject jumps out.
2 Focused SourcesThere's a school of thought that says start with a single light and do everything you possibly can to keep to that single source. The theory is that we only have one sun, and people are used to seeing shadows that come from a single direction. There's a newer school of thought that says forget about that and break out as many lights as you have and use them to focus illumination in specific areas of the shot. The latter is one of the hotter looks today.
In this issue of DPP, we have an article on Peter Yang who's a master of the technique. The key isn't in the number of lights; it's in the use of focus to keep each one playing a specific role and not spilling out into the rest of the scene. This kind of lighting is best achieved through the use of modifiers—a lot of modifiers. A beauty dish with a grid or a combination of grids as well as barn doors can get the job done. Snoots and optical snoots also are excellent tools to have at your disposal. Use the modifiers to keep the light confined and to give you complete control over the falloff. Usually when using focused light, you want fast falloff—let the light do its job; then keep it from interfering with anything else in the shot. Focused sources are ideal for adding light to hats and hair, the background behind the subject, accents on a person's wardrobe and other elements.
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War of the Web Roses
What's the best way to buy roses online?
The price of a dozen red roses will likely rise while you're reading this; their cost always doubles before Valentine's Day. This is not just crass opportunism. According to Jeff Serafini, a flower importer in New York City, no one really wants red roses the other 11 months of the year, but in order to satisfy the huge February demand, growers must recoup what they lose all year long tending enormous fields of unwanted and unsold flowers.
One reason no one wants them is because oftentimes a florist's bouquet of red roses consists of tightly budded, pointy, odorless flowers fluffed out with baby's breath and crammed into a faux cut-glass vase.
What I found while sending myself more than a dozen bouquets from online sellers was that while ugly roses with ugly filler in ugly vases are the norm, they are not all there is. Not only can great roses be found on the Web, but ordering online is actually the best way to get the freshest, most beautiful roses.
The Internet has transformed the process of buying flowers in the way Amazon.com was supposed to transform bookselling: no middlemen, low overhead, and so lower prices. Now many sites offer roses direct from the grower—no wholesaler and florist between the farm and you. Because the life of a cut flower is a finite trajectory lasting between seven and 10 days, eliminating middlemen also has a direct impact on the quality of the flower. Often a florist's flower is seven days old before it gets to you.
I sampled about 12 places and ordered mostly red roses, though I sometimes went for pink or yellow when their pictures looked really seductive. Very few places offered mixed arrangements that did not seem scary to me, so I played it straight: roses, with or without filler, most often without vases. I judged each site on service, graphic presentation, condition and display of flowers, beauty, scent, longevity, and price. Prices reflect what two dozen roses cost on Jan. 20 (when most vendors had already begun to raise prices) and on Feb. 7. So, from worst to best:
National Floral Networks (1800flowers.com, Ftd.com, Hallmark.com, 1800florals.com, Sendroses.com)
These companies operate with a network of thousands of affiliated florist shops around the country. The only thing these services have over the grower sites—aside from Mylar balloons, teddy bears, and a list of cribbable romantic sentiments—is same-day service. You place an order, it is routed to a local florist, and in hours a bouquet is delivered to your door. These services tend to be expensive and to use cheap, sturdy flowers and filler.
1800flowers.com This is one of the most popular of these services, so I ordered from them. The vase was unattractive; some leaves were submerged in the water (a fungal-inducing floral no-no); and the flowers were small, pointy, odorless, and never opened. Exactly the kind of roses that give roses a bad name. Two dozen roses were $98.76, now $168.76.
1800flowers.com also offers "farm fresh" roses, purportedly shipped right from the grower. These were a slightly better deal (but still expensive for direct-ship roses). The thing was, they didn't come from a grower; they came from a florist shop in New York City. While the flowers weren't bad, the stems were quite short, and the box had ad brochures in it. Two dozen were $97.94, now $103.47.
Proflowers.com This direct-from-the-grower site offered a lot of variety: organic roses, an interesting striated number called "Intuition," and a nice-looking mixed arrangement called "French Kiss." I placed four orders: the three just mentioned and a dozen regular red roses for the sake of comparison.


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How I used CouchSurfing.org to crash with perfect strangers and see the country on the cheap (without getting killed by an ax murderer).
For the first few weeks, we largely stayed within our comfort zone of young urban professionals and college students—with a few notable exceptions. Our first host, a city councilman in upstate New York who told us he conducted some of his business in strip clubs, put us in charge of the house to leave on a business trip. He left us a note: Do what you want with the place, but please don't take the television. The next night, we stayed with a retired midwife who passed the time by making oven mitts and who believed she could save squirrels from becoming roadkill by pressing her hands against the windshield while driving and making a noise like a ray gun in a vintage sci-fi flick.
But even in the most familiar of circumstances, it's tough to shake the feeling that you're dropping, Being John Malkovich-style, into someone else's life. Take Sonia, a 30-year-old family practitioner we stayed with in Glasgow, Kentucky, a courthouse town in Barren County ("#1 most livable rural community in America!") about an hour east of Bowling Green. At the time, she was the only active surfer in a town of about 14,000. On the night we arrive, the county courthouse steps have been appropriated by a Last Days Baptist revival. Sonia rolls her eyes when I relay the news.
Glasgow is an unlikely landing spot for a Polish-born liberal with a soft spot for the Red Army Choir. But Sonia hasn't yielded an inch: She's tacked a map of Paris on her living room wall and stocked her bookshelves with back issues of the New Left Review. Her laptop blasts Croatian soft rock, whose dulcet tones might be a contributing factor to her parrot's ongoing refusal to learn English. On her profile, she advertises "the (only) local deep intellectual discourse in close proximity to Mammoth Cave."
At least once a month, Sonia reconnects with her friends in Louisville, and they partake in what avid CSers call "invasions"—in which dozens of surfers from one city will "invade" another city for a weekend of scavenger hunts, museum tours, picnics, and the odd Roller Derby match. Two days in Indianapolis probably won't make her forget about Paris, but, as Sonia puts it, "it reminds me of what I can go and do if I want to go and drive."
As it happens, Sonia is paged by her hospital just as she's set the risotto to simmer, and she's gone for four hours. We're left to finish the recipe and prevent her 18-month-old neighbor—who's come over with her mother for dinner—from literally biting off more lefty literature than she can chew. It's not just the thrill of taking candy from strangers that makes CouchSurfing radical; it's that the greatest discoveries are built on the day-to-day banalities of someone else's life.
PART OF THE APPEAL of CouchSurfing is that it offers you the luxury of choosing precisely the kind of person you're looking to stay with (provided they'll have you, of course). You can seek out specific hosts—a college senior, a senior citizen, an urban farmer, an actual farmer—with the ease of picking heirlooms at a farmer's market. It's an advantage that hitchhiking never had.
And hosts talk openly about traveling vicariously through their surfers. Bud and Carol, a near-retirement-age LDS couple in Utah, had us sign a guest log articulating (among other things) the scope of our trip, along with a written guide to our hometown. They don't travel much themselves, but their kids do, and so they host as many travelers as they can as a form of karmic insurance. In Mississippi, we stayed with an Air Force vet from Seattle working as a contractor at a Naval air base. He'd given up on meeting new people in Meridian—how could you, unless you joined the Rotary Club or a church? For him, hosting surfers was a way of keeping in contact with folks like himself.
Bill, our host in Duluth, described himself in his profile as a Zamboni operator and freelance detective. In reality, he manned the graveyard shift at an assisted living facility and supplemented his income by donating plasma on the weekends. With the decline of the Iron Range, he explained, blood was now the city's largest export. This was also false.
Greeting us on the front steps of a Victorian apartment building overlooking Leif Erickson Park, he cuts a distinctive figure—aspiring mutton chops and a shock of rusty-brown hair framing a pair of beat-up glasses held together by masking tape. His neck cranes down and then back up when he walks, as if he's ever battling an invisible torrent of sleet; the lazy eye almost seems superfluous.
In anticipation of our arrival, he's sorted through a dumpster for an extra set of couch cushions, bedbugs be damned. But, he warns, "I'm gonna have a rager tonight, kind of. Like it'll be pretty wild, so if you guys just want to stay with someone else, that's cool."
The rager ultimately consists of seven people, clustered in a kitchen. There's a strobe light in the living room, but no dancing. The whole thing, Bill concludes, would have been better if he could have scored some dry ice. Still, he shows us the side of the city you'll never find in a guide book: a Brazilian Laundromat with live parakeets; an abandoned ski jump with a panoramic view of the harbor; and the "graffiti graveyard," an I-35 overpass that's home to the city's finest underground art.
When Bill surfs, he wants a "weird experience" and picks hosts accordingly. Some experiences are weirder than others—when he first passed through Duluth, his host suffered a nervous breakdown and took off. Bill ended up moving in with her roommates.
Because he views it as a form of immersion tourism, he can't stand it when his hosts out him as a surfer to their friends. It makes him feel like a second-class acquaintance. "I made it a thing where I would get people to agree that if we went out and people asked us how we knew each other," he says, "we'd tell them we used to be camp counselors."
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This camera is way below my standards on operation, it has 3 blue dots in the screen area showing it has bad spots on the video chip. The video is sub quality really bad, looks like a water painting with all the wrong colors. Day viewing is extremely bad night viewing is slightly better but I would not want this camera even if it was free. This is really bad and should not be sold to anyone.
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Funny how you jumped that to narrow-minded. I mean, I'm not going to deny that I do think you're narrow minded. Not because of your sexual orientation, I'm extremely tolerant of any sexual orientation. There's absolutely nothing wrong with only being attracted to cis-gendered women. I would never try to claim otherwise.
No, sir. You are narrow-minded because when people make points that don't support your ignorant beliefs, you go in the corner and pout rather than allowing yourself to be educated. You end discussions on the basis that it's become too difficult to defend your position, which is basically because your position is prejudiced and irrational.
As I am sure any cat owner will be able to tell you,
someone else putting you in a box is entirely different
from getting into a box yourself. bisexualbaker
I don't see why it's ignorant if a person says 'I'm expecting to meet a woman' if they are informed if their potential date does in fact, own a cock. Just because the trans woman sees herself as no different to any other woman does not mean that the man will. If that makes him ignorant and narrow minded then too bad.
Not narrow minded. Just common courtesy.
I also want to point out that while I can understand why you'd be insulted by my tone and language, I didn't actually directly insult you or call you a name. I merely indicated I find conversations with door knobs to be more rewarding than this discussion.
You've used terminology that is insulting, and you don't seem to care, because you have your preconceived notions and you're not even willing to consider that they might be prejudiced and hurtful. Most decent people, upon being told that a certain phrase hurtful, would apologize for being rude and then use the proper term when it's provided. You just blast through all that and keep spewing the same ignorant garbage. So if you want people to treat you with dignity and respect, it's a good idea to start doing it yourself.
As I am sure any cat owner will be able to tell you,
someone else putting you in a box is entirely different
from getting into a box yourself. bisexualbaker
In the real world outside the forum, the term 'woman' is not usually considered offensive.
Just like if a man talks about dating a woman, it is assumed he is talking about a cis-woman and not a trans-woman.
These are fair assumptions to make, because they are how the majority of people live their lives. Most men want a cis and not a trans woman.
Hence the reason I said the onus is on the trans.
We may just have to agree to disagree on this one, puss. Sorry- cis-puss.
Can you even begin to imagine what that would feel like? Imagine waking up tomorrow, your penis gone, and a vagina in its place and breasts on your chest where you used to have carefully sculpted pecs. Ok, get over the perverted first few hours of playing with your tits and cunt, and then imagine waking up like that every day for the rest of your life.
No, never mind. That doesn't even BEGIN to cover it. Imagine that when you're a little boy, your mom dresses you up in pink frocks, takes away all your GI Joes and Tonka trucks, and give you a bunch of dumb Barbie dolls and tea cups. When you friends are out playing street hockey, she doesn't let you go join in because you might get dirt on your skirt.
And then just to wrap it all up in a pretty pink bow, you grow up and start being attracted to other girls. You ask them out. But when they find out what's going on under your blue jeans (because you've finally gotten old enough that your mom can't make you wear dresses anymore), they give you a repulsed look and never speak to you again. And this happens again. And again. And again.
You're so incredibly lucky to have been born into the right body for your gender. Stop being so fucking self-entitled for one second, and just try to imagine what these people are going through. Is it really so much for you to make the small concession of letting them feel accepted at least for that first date, before you run for the hills screaming?
As I am sure any cat owner will be able to tell you,
someone else putting you in a box is entirely different
from getting into a box yourself. bisexualbaker
To answer the original poster's question: All you can really do is be there for her. Make sure she knows that you care about her and that she's beautiful.
As far as when one should divulge such information, I really think it's just personal preference. When should a person divulge any sort of medical condition, past or present? For instance, I try to be very open about my anxiety before the first date (mostly to explain why I look so ridiculously nervous), but I'm not going to tell about my hoarding tendencies until I know I really like the person and want to continue seeing them. And there are some things that I may not tell a partner at all until I'm very comfortable or I feel it's necessary. It's important for the person with the "secret" to feel safe. They're the one that has something to lose. They're the one facing rejection, ridicule, and possible danger.
So I should go on the date with the trans girl, pretend I'm happy with it in order to make her feel accepted...and then ignore her?
The rejection has to come at some point. Surely it's better to come before she's wasted any of her time investing in what is ultimately going to be fruitless date, romantically at least?
What if she actually liked me (I know that's hard for you to imagine right now, but surprisingly it does happen) and I led her on in order for her to feel accepted? She's going to feel worse about that then she would have find upfront.
If I'm going on a date with someone advertising themselves as a cis-woman (see how I'm using the proper term, see I do pay attention)...that's what I expect to meet. I'm not operating some charity service where I spend my evenings boosting the self esteem of fragile egos. I offer a great listening ear - but don't make me feel like I've been the victim of some bait and switch manoeuvre.
So, you go on a date, you find out something that makes the two of you incompatible, despite the fact that your date likes you. Then what? Are you suggesting you should then stop talking to them immediately? Stop being friendly and enjoying a nice evening? Because you're incompatible romantically?
I've been on a number of dates where we have both been cis-gendered, often I've found something that is a deal-breaker for me. I've then continued the date (possibly having mentioned the fact that I couldn't be romantically involved with them the moment I realised it - depending on intuition and context), I've laughed, I've had a good time and perhaps even continued to be their good friend. This has happened with the last two people I went on 1st dates with.
I think that's what has really been bothering me about this thread. The idea that there has to be some intense romantic intent on 1st dates.
I don't know about you, but often, I barely know a person on a first date! They seem nice, I go along. I could end up romantically interested, we could end up being friends, it could just be one of those enjoyable nights out with someone where you don't necessarily ever meet up again. It could be a massive bore.
I don't see how continuing a date to it's logical conclusion (i.e. end of dinner, etc) and being friendly and talking and doing most of what you were doing before finding out the deal-breaker (minus overt flirting of course), is leading someone on. In all romantic situations I like to think that I mean more to someone than sex, that if they weren't attracted to me, they'd still like me.
I don't see why you'd have to react any differently towards a person you're on a date with that tells you they're transgendered than you would with any other deal-breaker.
It was a nice date, you liked them, you find out you're incompatible with them or they are with you - in my experience, this is most 1st dates!
And when it comes down to it, it's a bloody first date! I think, unless you've known the person for a while and have been getting your hopes up over time, that anyone feeling hugely hurt and 'led on' on a first date with someone who then reveals they're transgendered needs to get a grip on themselves. How serious can you get about a person on a first date? And if the answer is very: you probably need to deal with that, most first dates don't work out and you can't afford to let yourself get too smashed up every time on doesn't go as wanted or expected.
Note: No offense to OP, I think if someone has a bit of a fit at you and insults you on a date then there's more than enough reason to be upset.
She's not the only one who is annoyed by your communication style and your deliberate misuse of terms. She's just the only one who has bothered to continue responding to you.
Single, straight, female, solo, non-monogamous.
What a bunch of humourless crap.
Some of you need to get a grip and realise they there is a real world outside this forum. A real world where on dating sites, there is not a separate option for sex and gender. Just one. Where if someone puts female, they expect to meet what they consider to be a female, not a trans.
Yes there may be other deal breakers, but most of them are personality/ life style related and are not binary options you can select in your profile.
To me, if you give the impression to someone that they are getting one thing, and you give them another, then you can't be surprised if they aren't happy. Just like if the woman were to post pics from 10 years ago when she was 50 pounds lighter, I'd be annoyed. It's about misleading someone. Not that same as meeting up and discovering that there is no spark.
And seriously? You're getting offended by 'cis-puss' now?
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Goof: When Hannah is about to chew the licorice gum to gross out Oliver, she takes a bite out of the gum and leaves half of the stick in her hand, but in the next shot, she isn't holding any gum.
Goof: When Miley/Hannah's bubble bursts, it should've blown back onto her, not onto Oliver.
This is due to the force of the air she was applying to the inside of the bubble. If the bubble was supposed to hit Oliver, then it would have had to burst near Miley's mouth.
While Oliver is playing his role as "locker man", the girl who asks for his help is the same girl who plays Becca Weller in "Oops I Meddled Again".
Goof: When Miley and Lilly are in the limo for the second time and they're describing how Oliver looks in Spanish, they both say, "No Comprendo". But the real Spanish phrase is "No Comprende". Thats the joke.
The first time Miley is in the limo and she puts on her seat belt, it is on her shoulder, the camera cuts to Lilly and back to Miley and the seat belt is beside her shoulder.
Robbie no longer wears a wig as part of his disguise as he did in he pilot & he now has a plain fake mustache instead of the handle bar one he use to wear.
When Hannah and Lilly are in the car the second time with Oliver, first, the two teeth behind her front teeth are in, and in the next shot they are gone.
When Oliver starts to drop into the limo, Robbie pulls the wig and puts it under his right thigh. However in the next shot, we see Lilly helping Hannah put on the wig from the completely opposite side..
When Miley is with Oliver on the beach, there is a black dot on her cheek and in the next shot the black dot is gone.
Why would Miley take off her Hannah wig when there was a guy sitting right across from her on a public beach. And when they leave she just leaves her wig there and doesn't take it?
Goof: When Oliver is hanging from the sky roof, Lilly puts "Hannah's" hat on Miley's head, and Miley's father has her wig, then in the next shot of her she only has her wig on, but then in the next shot she has on both.
When Miley/ Hannah Montana was eating the black gum, her mouth was black. At the next shot of her, her mouth was not black anymore.
Goof: When Oliver wrote something on the palm of the "Hannah Hand",& then he panicked trying to wipe it off, you can see that there isn't any writing on his palm.
When Miley reveals to Oliver that she's Hannah Montana, she never mentions to him to not say anything about it to anyone else like she said to Lilly when she found out.
Goof: When Lilly tells everyone her name is Lola LaFonda her lips don't match what she's saying. The "LaFonda" part must have been dubbed in because it looks like she says "Luftnagle" like she did in It's My Party and I'll Lie if I Want To.
Oliver: I didn't know you liked gum. I surfed all your websites and none of them mentioned you were a chewer.
Hannah: Oh. I'm a chewer all right. I love to chew. I chew all the time like a train. Chew chew chew! I chew in the morning, the afternoon, the evening. If it can be chewed it's in my mouth.
Oliver: Hannah.
Hannah: Hey! The kid from the moon roof. Look at you all up side right.
Oliver: Chad, dude! Close up shop when you chew, you're getting spit on the Hannah-hand!
Miley: Oh, no it's Oliver again! He snuck into my dressing room last week, nearly jumped on stage the week before, and just when you think he can't get anymore obsessed, BAM! He kicks it up a notch.
Robbie: Look at those bony little elbows go. That boy cuts through the crowd like a weedwacker!
Lilly: This is totally insane. Back off people, back off. Don't make me release Thor. Grrrrrr.
Miley: Yeah you go get'em Thor. Two pounds of pure piddle just looking for a target.
Robbie: Uh, actually I think he just shot it.
Lilly/Miley: Oh man. Ughhh.
Oliver: But why didn't you tell me?
Miley: I was afraid that...
Oliver: That I might be in love with you? Do you think I am?
Miley: You tell me.
Miley: I mean, have you ever pictured yourself with Miley, your friend the dork?
Oliver: You're not a dork.
Miley: Oh come on, what about the time I tripped in the biology lab and spilled frog juice all over you?
Oliver: Oh Right, mum made me take off my pants in the school parking lot.
Miley: Or when we were at Andrew's birthday party and you accidentally knocked me into the pool in your one-man stampede for the cake?
Oliver: That's not fair, it was an ice-cream long cake and you know I have to get an end cut.
Miley: Come on Oliver...let's face it, the girl that you thought you love is standin' right here and the truth is...you don't love her.
Jackson: You're a failure, a failure as a father!
(After Miley tells Oliver her secret)
Oliver: So, Mandy Moore! You don't happen to have her number, do you?!
Miley: Boy, you bounce back fast.
Jackson: You are so wrong. When I was on the freeway, there were guys honkin' and wavin' and... and giving me kissy faces! Oh no!
Robbie: That's it! This dolly wagon's going back where it came from!
Jackson: But the salesperson already said no.
Robbie: To you, not to me. Face it son, I'm a little bit more intimidating.
(Robbie honks the car horn)
Robbie: Lord, take me now!
Robbie: You know what that boy needs? A real girlfriend.
Miley: Dad that is the... smartest thing you've ever said.
Robbie: You know what they say, every now and then even a blind pig snorts up a truffle.
Lilly: Now that is the weirdest.
Hannah: Look out, boys! New chew comin' through!
(she puts a weird-colored gum in her mouth; at first, Oliver is dumbfounded, but then his eyes widen; scene switches back to Miley/Hannah whose mouth has turned black)
Oliver: Your mouth... it's, um... it's...
Hannah: Turnin' black? It's licorice mint. I love licorice. Don't make me laugh, it comes out my nose. You want to see?
Oliver: No!
Hannah: Too late! She's about to blow!
Cooper: Where is it?
Jackson: Right here.
Cooper: This?
Jackson: I know. I can't believe it's mine either!
Cooper: And I can't believe you just bought a girl car.
Jackson: What?
Cooper: Jackson, only girls drive this thing. This is a chick mobile! A babe bucket, a skirt scooter! Might as well have bought a bra with tires, man!
Robbie: Don't worry Miley, I know guys and pretty soon, he's gonna be tired chasin' somebody who's not chasin' him back.
(They cross the intersection. Lilly opens the window and finds Oliver riding his bike trying to catch up to the limo)
Oliver: Do... a dude... a favor. And don't get on the freeway! For you my love!
(Oliver throws flowers in the limo)
(Oliver goes near a dude with blonde hair but he thinks it's Hannah)
Oliver: Hi, it's me, Oliver. Listen, I heard about your breakup I'm here for you. If you need a hug, my arms are open.
(The beach dude turns around)
Beach Dude: Get away from me!
Oliver: Ha, ha! I can do that!
Lilly: I know. Knock, knock. Who's there? Fate.
Oliver: Fate who?
Lilly: Just go.
Oliver: All right. Here goes.
Lilly: Oh, and if things don't work out, you're still Smokin' Oken!
Oliver: Thanks but it'll work out.
Lilly: Absolutely! But if it doesn't, Smokin' Oken. ... 'Nuff said.
Lilly: And deep down, maybe, just maybe, you feel the same way.
(Lilly and Miley sees Oliver rubbing his "Hannah Hand" on his face)
Miley: And maybe, just maybe, that's insane!
Miley: I know that look! Either you have a brilliant idea, or you really gotta go.
Lilly: Oliver's about to be really turned off by Hannah Montana..... and I really gotta go! (runs to bathroom)
Oliver: You are my love, my life, and someday you'll be my.....-(writes on hand) Note to self: think of a word that rhymes with life
Robbie: All this morning i tried to write a song, It never took me this dang long, Im thinking maybe i should just fly the coop, 'Cause everything i write just sound like---
Jackson: (coming into the house excited) Dad!
Mr. Dontzig: Something needs to be done about this.
Robbie: (About Mr. Dontzig's small robe) Yeah. And I think something needs to be done about this! (Hits Mr. Dontzig's big belly) I suggest some sit-ups or maybe a bigger robe!
Mr. Dontzig: What was this leaf from your tree doing in my hot tub?
Robbie: I don't know. Maybe it wanted to party. (Robbie & Jackson start dancing)
Mr. Dontzig: I hate neighbors. That's why I got the big hedge. See you got a new car. My wife had a car just like this. Traded it in. She thought it was too girly. ..... Get your leaves out of my hot tub! (Walks away)
Miley: And that's smart because what if one friend loves another friend but they didn't get loved back? Then things would be all weird and uncomfortable and the friends couldn't be friends anymore. And there's nothing more important than our friendship, Oliver.
Oliver:Oh man, you love me!
Miley & Lilly: Ewww! No!
Miley: I mean I do love you. But like a brother or a pet fish. You know, I'd cry if I had to flush you down the toilet but I wouldn't wanna kiss you!
Jackson: Prepare to be blown away.
Robbie: This better be good son, I was right in the middle of a masterpiece!
Jackson: Jackson Stewart, come on down! You are the proud owner of a brand new... USED CAR! Yes, over the last fifteen years this pre-owned beauty has been driven around by heavy smokers and sloppy eaters, and one Wilma McDermott whose cat popped out six kittens in the front seat! Yes, some stains just don't come out!
Robbie: And you're happy about that?
Jackson: Yes I am!
Hannah: Thor, time to make yourself useful.
(Hannah lets Thor lick Oliver's hand)
Oliver: Oh baby, you're an animal.
(Hannah slaps Oliver's hand and Oliver takes it out of the limo)
Oliver: Yeah, I like 'em feisty.
Jackson: You are so wrong. This is totally a guy car. Why, when I was driving home, there were guys honkin', and wavin', and givin' me kissy faces. Oh, no, Dad, tell me I didn't just buy a chick car?!
Robbie: You didn't buy a chick car.
Jackson: Now say it like you mean it.
Robbie: I'd like to son, but... you know how ladies like to have the final word. (honks car horn)
Hannah: Maybe if I didn't have a boyfriend then...
Oliver: I'd have a chance with you?!
Hannah: I never said that!
Oliver: But you implied it! And that's good enough. I'll wait for you forever.
Hannah: But I never said that!
Oliver: Forever Hannah Montana! Do you hear me? Forever!
Oliver: So, you were Hannah in the limo when I was upside-down?
Miley: Yeah.
Oliver: And backstage when I was hanging out of the window?
Miley: Yep.
Oliver: And when I hid in your bass drum and rode on your tour bus all the way to Phoenix?
Miley: You did what?
Oliver: Nothing.
Jackson: Oh, man, it's Mr. Dontzig, and he's wearing his robe again!
Robbie: Yeah, well, count your blessings. At least this time it's the long one.
Miley: Oliver, see that girl Pamela over there? She thinks you're cute.
Oliver: Can't say that I disagree. Too bad I'm already cruising down the Hannah highway.
Oliver: (hanging upside-down; to Hannah) Wow, you're even more beautiful upside-down.
Lola: Oh, thank you! You're so sweet!
Hannah: He was talking to me.
Jackson: Dad, it's mine. It's not perfect, but it's my own car and I bought it with my own money.
Robbie: I'm proud of you, son. Especially the "bought with my own money" part.
Miley: The CD signing. If he stares into my eyes, he might recognize me!
Lilly: That's never gonna happen.
Miley: But what if it does?
Lilly: Maybe you can learn to love him, like I do with my brother's hamster. Oh, and here's the beauty part, if Oliver dies, you want have to bury him in the backyard.
Miley: When you talk, do you hear it, or is it like a big roaring in your ears?
Miley: (about Oliver) Man, he's never gonna give up.
Lilly: Well, you better hope he does, because if he ever finds out your secret, he's not only going to be in love with Hannah Montana, he'll be in love with you.
Miley: What? That's crazy. The only thing that's the same about Hannah Montana and me is... me. And me doesn't feel the same way about him.
Oliver: (to Hannah) Please, kiss my hand and I'll never wash it again.
Lilly: Looks like he never washes it now!
Miley/Hannah: I completely understand if you want to transfer your obsession to Mandy Moore. She's a blonde again you know.
(Miley/Hannah is messing around with Oliver)
Miley/Hannah: I LOOOVE licorice! Don't make me laugh; it comes out my nose! Ya wanna see?
Oliver: No!
Miley/Hannah: TOO LATE! She's about to blow!
(Oliver pinches Miley/Hannah's nose shut)
Miley: What about, Lilly? You guys would be perfect together!
Lilly: Excuse me?
Miley: You're both stubborn.
Lilly & Oliver: I am not!
Miley: See, you guys always agree with each other.
Lilly & Oliver: No, we don't.
Miley: I am definitely seeing a couple here.
Lilly & Oliver: You're not, because I'm not. Phew!
Miley/Hannah: Because (Takes off her wig) I'm Hannah Montana. Me, Miley.
(Oliver Faints)
Miley: Okay, that went well.
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When Hannah blows the bubble on to Oliver's face and it pops, you can see it's just plastic because he's able to peel it off with ease and nothing remains on his face when he does so.
In this episode, Miley has a purple and orange backpack. But in "Lilly, Do You Want to Know a Secret", her backpack is blue.
Oliver has had a crush on Hannah Montana for three years.
Oliver is known as the "Locker Man" at school because he can make any locker open.
To make Hannah's mouth turn black, they used a prank gum that's tasteless, but leaves a black stain on the mouth and teeth that stays for about a half hour. But since the gum wasn't staining Hannah's lips enough, the make up artist added black lipstick to complete the "Black Drippage" effect.
This is the first episode that opens with a song that wasn't premiered as a music video.
Hannah's wig has changed to a more realistic looking one since the pilot episode.
Lilly has a pekingese dog named Thor with her when she & Miley are posing as Lola & Hannah. But it's unclear if the dog really belongs to ether Lilly or Miley.
The character name Dontzig in this episode is a reference to the show's executive producer, Gary Dontzig.
Lilly creates an alter-ego of her own called Lola Luftnagle to help keep Miley's Hannah Montana identity a secret.
This episode included a performance of the song "Just Like You" by Hannah Montana in front of a live audience.
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Miley/Hannah: Then bam! He kicks it up another notch!
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In short; be creative and try not to go overboard.
*probably went overboard*
Well, first I would like to differ between villians and antagonists. For the villians, I prefer the not-evil-for-greater-good ones. From time to time it's okay, but things like turning a main villian into a good guy (as in Naruto…) is not so cool. "Oh, they are not entirely evil, they have REASON!"
The thing is, you can deal with villians who have someone close in danger. You can't really deal with psychopaths.
My main villians are somewhat symbolic: revenge, rage, power and cruelity. This is increasing psychopathically, but aside from pure strength there is a species in my storys who are (at least for the protagonists) more dangerous: Pure chaos and madness. You can talk out revenge, rage and power (with fists). Cruelity is not so easy to handle but at least expectable. But you can't do a thing against chaos. As fantastic (as in "fantasy") this sounds, we have examples in our world as well, wars for example.
Lets compare WWI and the Vietnam war.
Lets have a look at the romans. An open field?
your troops and we win, no matter if the opponents rage or not. A forest and opponents came out of nowhere? Oh why, Juppiter?
About the antagonists: I agree to most posted yet, but I think it's to difficult to decide where being the antagonist starts. Who was Harrys antagonist in book 1 or 2? Draco Malfoy? Severus Snape? Lord Voldemort / his horcrux the diary? Tell me.
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