Vacation
Posted on | July 2, 2009 | No Comments
I’m out of the office on Friday July 3rd spending some time with the family and some good friends. I’ll be back Monday.
2 of My Favorite Quotes
Posted on | June 29, 2009 | No Comments
I’m doing some work on my next book and I keep coming back to a few of my favorite quotes. Here are a couple from the archives.
From “Inspire! What Great Leaders Do” by Lance Secretan:
We overuse the word “driven.” We want to be values-driven, customer-driven, mission-driven, market-driven, technology0driven, solutions-0driven, and self-driven. Perhaps this is why so many people are driven to drink, driven insane, or driven to distraction? Are Zen masters “driven”? Were Christ, Lao-Tzu, Confucius, Buddha, or Mother Teresa “driven”? Is being driven part of the problem rather than part of the solution? What would it look ilie if we were customer-inspired? Or market-inspired? Or values-inspired? Or family-inspired? Wouldn’t anyone rather be inspired than driven? There is a greater sacredness and inner beauty associated with inspiration, the breath of God, compared to the manic style of the old story leader that causes us to be driven – and thus drained.
From one of my all-time favorite business books: “The Trusted Adviser” by Maister, Green, and Galford:
More value is added through problem definition than through problem answer.
Tags: inspire > quotes > trusted advisor
Brand Protection Council Membership
Posted on | June 16, 2009 | No Comments
I want to tell you about BPCouncil (www.bpcouncil.com) a great new international organization I have recently joined and highly recommend that you check out. They have already provided great value to me both directly and through referrals.
BPCouncil is a dynamic international virtual community of brand protection and IP professionals. You can connect with brand owners, IP lawyers, brand protection technology providers, customs officials and other IP professionals from around the globe.
On www.BPCouncil.com you can find a wide variety of helpful resources, networking tools, in-depth news stories and more. There are also opportunities to promote your organization through speaking engagements, contributing content for the website/newsletter, discounted banner ads for members and an active job board and more. So far BPCouncil has distributed my ebook and I can’t wait to submit more material to them.
Join now and get a 15% discount off corporate membership. Be sure to write “Kevin Houchin” in the referral code space.
If you have any questions, Sarah Hein of the Member Services team will be happy to provide you with further information at SarahH@bpcouncil.com or +41-22-735-40-65.
I look forward to your becoming a part of the BPCouncil community.
This really is worth your time and money. I hope you take advantage of this offer.
Tags: bpcouncil > brand protection > branding > Copyright > international > Trademark
TM & Copyright for Creative People - Free Webinar
Posted on | June 15, 2009 | No Comments
I’ve been asked a few times over the last few days to repost the links to the copyright and trademark webinars I did for Morgan James Publishing back in January. These programs are tailored to the needs of authors, but the concpets and laws are the same for anyone in creative business.
Here are the links:
Feel free to forward these links to any of your friends who might need the information.
If you would like me to do a similar session tailored to your group - give me a call at 970-493-1070 or drop me an email and we’ll work something out.
Tags: authors > Copyright > morgan james publishing > Trademark > webinar
Trademarks on Facebook
Posted on | June 12, 2009 | No Comments
If you own some trademarks, be sure to fill out this form on Facebook to make sure nobody else registers your mark as their Facebook Username (Vanity URL).
http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=username_rights
Thanks to Mari Smith for including this link in this post.
Tags: facebook > mari smith > Trademark
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