Tami Reiss

othing helps with making friends or finding a job like the power of positive thinking.
My email signature, which has gotten a lot of notice recently (I think it’s the economy) says “Look at the good you have in your life, your friends, your family, your health and everything else will work out.” Sometimes I read [...]

n one of my first posts I discussed how Jason Nazar explained the importance of telling people about your idea and to not be afraid of someone stealing it. His philosophy centered around a few concepts:
1) No one else will probably be as passionate as you are about the idea to actually make it
2) If [...]

So thanks to Twitter and Facebook and soon to be Streamy and EBlizz, it’s really easy to share cool sites that you come across.
Today site: cr.am
God I love it when you use the .xx to finish your name, like chi.mp
Cram will shrink your links to very small links, like tinyurl does but they’ll actually pay [...]

Though staying visible is important, moderation is paramount.
Be warned of burn out. If you’re going to go to every networking event that comes your way and go on every interview, even if you don’t want the position, you’re going to start getting frustrated. Once you get frustrated, you become less genuine, and less effective. This [...]

It’s too often said that there’s no such things as the title of this blog, but on Monday, not only was I given free food, I was also given the opportunity to explore and engage with the Rubicon Project (link).
Last week at Startonomics, the final speaker I was able to stay for discussed the [...]

Today, at every Denny’s across the country there were lines and lines of people. Why? Because of free food. Denny’s in a fun marketing campaign centered around superbowl ads, decided to give every person a free Grand Slam breakfast today. When I saw the ad on Sunday, I happened to be sitting next to [...]

I’ve always been a fan of having a mentor, someone to look up to, to advise you on how to accomplish your goals. A few times in my life I’ve asked people to be my mentor. No one has really agreed to take it on full fledged but more often than not they’re happy to [...]

Mint.com is this great website I found out about at Likemind a few weeks ago.
They help you organize your finances for FREE. They keep track of your spending, organize it for you, and help you understand where you might be spending too much. How do they know you’ve been spending too much, or that you’re [...]

How my overly friendly networking has delivered thus far (in the form of actual work):
1) I’m organizing events for Mixergy and sharing part of the profits for the events.
2) I got to work on a SWOT analysis for a small start-up consulting firm.
3) I have an interview tomorrow for a job I”m actually qualified for.

Today I re-learned the importance of reaching out. One should never underestimate what a phone call, and extra email or one of those from a mutual contact.
My morning started when an auto insurance broker called me. We had played phone tag yesterday, and it was my turn, but he took the initiative and called me [...]