Keith Privette

Since I am heading off to #StartNorfolk in a couple hours wanted to share some info with the folks that will be there this weekend to consider picking up this lethal combination of business books as they kick off their business dreams! I have read 3 and half of these books (Meghan and Nancy still [...]

    Start Norfolk 2.0 will be held at the Ted Constant Convocation Center located on the campus of Old Dominion University on Friday, April 27th through Sunday, April 29th. On top of the startup competition, there will be 11 speakers including: Aneesh Chopra, the nation’s first Chief Technology Officer, Anis Uzzaman, CEO and General [...]

In running your business, project, or strategy where do you focus: 1. Time 2. Energy 3. Rewards 4. Attention 5. Resources So this is a fundamental path you and your company are going to need to examine for moving into the next evolution of business.  Will you be accepting mediocrity, status quo, and “well that [...]

So I have worked at some really large companies here in Minneapolis and have come to realize they move slow towards change, so I decided to plant a seed for planning in 2012. Since planning for 2011 is already in the books!  Try this approach for your BIG reorganization in 2012 (seems like this BIG [...]

This story has a little bit of a twist on using the social channels to buy a washer and dryer.  There are several elements of interacting online that brought me to Warners’ Stellian’s for purchasing our new washing and dryer.  This example of social media ROI is based purely only conversing with and observing Julie [...]

Her is part two of what Social Media ROI looks like from a customer.  This story starts about a year and a half ago when I met Andrea Kopfmann via twitter.  I met Andrea via a couple tweets here and there from other people I know via this channel.  Over this past year I’ve had [...]

So many folks struggle with the concept of “How do you actually get ROI from all this stuff on the twitters?”  Well I decided to show and explain how this looks like IRL (In Real Life).  So this story starts about a 2 years ago.  I have met many people, yes people not logos or [...]