World picks on Arizona Governor Jan Brewer For fingering President Barack Obama Not a mention when Vanessa Hudgens Does same to Jay Leno

13 degrees warmer today than beginning of 21st Century's second decade global warming?

On the first day of the 21st Century's second decade, I blogged about what a fine day it was and it was nearly 70 degrees.

Two years later it is 83. Can you say global warming? Sure you can.

2011 New Year's Eve Fiesta Bowl Parade Phoenix Sonoran Desert Arizona

Occupy Phoenix New Year's Eve 2011 In 75 degree weather at noon

President Barack Obama's job plan This should be good for a laugh Republicans don't have a plan either No recovery before 2017

Until the U.S.A. adopts a closed border plan, don't expect any economic recovery to work - from either party.

China closed its doors for centuries. Now the world's economic power. U.S.A. needs to copy. No goods or immigrants from other countries. Try that for two decades and see how powerful the U.S.A. will be.

Get out of Afghanistan, Korea, Japan, Libya, Pakistan, Iraq and stick to securing our own commerce and borders.

No iPhones, computers, guitars made in other countries - even Mexico or Canada. All car parts made here. We welcome Toyota, Mercedes, Honda and other companies that want to build plants here. Unless things are made in U.S.A., they can not come into the country. Foreign companies can only remove 10 percent of profits made in U.S.A. from our nation.

How to have a healthy economy.

College degree waste of money most millionaires / billionaires without college degree

Bill Gates - billionaire
Oprah - billionaire
Joe Jonas - millionaire
Charlie Sheen - millionaire
Paris Hilton - millionaire
Miley Cyrus - almost billionaire
Mick Jagger - millionaire

What do all these rich people have in common? No college degree.

Getting a college degree and making a lot of money is smoke and mirrors. It is a gamut run by college marketing departments - most living off taxpayer dollars. Meaning the people telling you you're going to be rich with a college degree are not wealthy themselves.

My siblings, including myself, all have masters degrees or higher. Not a one of us has earned anywhere close to six figures in one year.

Don't be tempted by the college marketers. Save your $.

Night I knocked Charlie Sheen on his ass

True story.

Guitarist Slash played Scottsdale's Cajun House April 14, 1997 and October 31, 1997. Was up front at both shows.

At the Halloween show, there was a guy next to me in a Slash stove pipe hat with a Slash wig. Slash looked at us, pointing the index finger of each hand at us and said, "You guys were here last time." Looked at the guy. Yup, he was up front at the April show.

Near the last third of the show a guy with long blond hair and a bandana tried to push me out of the way at the front of the stage. I thought he was just another Halloween partier dressed as Axl Rose (Slash's former Guns N' Roses bandmate). I pushed him aside and he fell backwards on a short guy about 5'2" or 5'5". That short guy fell on his butt.

Five minutes later the short guy, wearing a Seinfeld looking ruffles pirate shirt, was up on stage behind Slash waving his arms. Turns out the Axl Rose guy was Bret Michaels and the short guy was Charlie Sheen. Both were in Phoenix filming No Code of Conduct.

Still carry a scar on my right eyelid where Slash tossed a cigarette at the April show and it hit me. Wonder if Sheen has a scar on his ass from the fall?

Worst public relations ever: Arizona on verge of losing Fiesta Bowl Former Intel chief said would never locate now

One of Arizona's biggest leaders has been fired from the Fiesta Bowl. The Bowl's CEO John Junker was recently fired for alleged misappropriation of Bowl funds. This is a man who influenced politicians at every level throughout the state. He influenced decisions made for every citizen in the state.

Arizona now faces the prospect of losing the annual Bowl Championship Series event that generates $140-million to the state's economy.

Arizona also has the highest state budget deficit per capita of any state in the nation.

Also this week, former Intel CEO Craig Barrett said if Intel was looking to locate in Arizona today as it did decades ago, it would pass due to Arizona's poor quality of education today.

Arizona definitely has a public relations problem. The problem stems from the fact that corporations and public relations firms hire nothing but interns in their early 20s. Here's two examples, here and here. It is an indication those in charge in Arizona don't value public relations, or 21st Century marketing tools, if they put inexperienced people in crucial rolls.

60 percent of your Internet message needs to be visual

You Twitter all the time; yet nothing. Maybe you’re missing several key elements in your Twitter marketing mix. Today we look at the visual aspect. You’re doing the hashtags, the @ to people, but want to improve.

If you’re going to utilize both Facebook and Twitter as your primary 21st Century marketing tools palette, you’re going to have to think visual. That means adding photos and videos to your “social media” campaign.

There are many tools to add photos. Facebook just upload. Twitter, there’s Twitpics, Twitpix, Plixi and this could probably go on all day. You get the picture.

Yet the greatest power is video. I recommend EVERYONE have a YouTube account. I’ve been recommending YouTube since 2006. At that time, every major magazine turned down articles I had written about how to use YouTube and what could be found on it. Today YouTube’s all you read about. Those same magazines are turning down QR Code stories now.

Once your videos are uploaded to YouTube, share links. Shorten the links with shortening engines like TinyUrl, Bit.li, etc.

For more information, contact me.

Personalities drive your followers How to get more Twitter followers

Want to get more Twitter (and probably Facebook) followers? I know, what an idiotic question. Of course you do.

Charlie Sheen broke the Guinness Book of records getting 1-million Twitter followers in 20 hours. How long have you been on Twitter and how many followers do you have?

So here’s a simple secret. Start following personalities and see how many people follow you.

Here’s the brilliance of it. You don’t need to write one Tweet. Just follow celebrities. Radio announcers and television newscasters are included in this personality following. Sports and NASCAR personalities too.
Another secret is retweet the celebrity’s messages. Do an @celebrity’sTwitterName – but remember the rule, put at least one character before the @ sign.

Once you follow, an effective way to manage it is lists. See blog on lists. You could do engines like HootSuite or Twitdeck, but I prefer to operate within Twitter. It’s all there – searches, etc., if you know how to use it. You can create a television news list, music celebrity list, sports figures list. Makes it all easier to manage.

If you’d like more information, contact me.