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What are swing voters waiting for?
Replied Oct. 8, 2008
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John Qualls's Blog
Solving the Financial Crisis
Here's my plan:
1. Mortgage, Auto, Stock Market crisis.
For mortgages 500,000 or less I am wiping out the balance effective Feb 1, 2009 for all US citizens. For mortgages 500,000 - 1,000,000 I am cutting them in half. Over t… Continue
Posted on November 24, 2008 at 5:30pm — 12 Comments
CIO: Dead in 5 years
Recently I was having a conversation with a friend (Brian Kovacs) and the topic came up about the CIO role. I have seen a significant shift in the last year with folks in this role.
I have seen a lot of CIO's in transition, as well as the CIO role morphing into a role very different than it was 10 years ago. I've had several conversations over the last 3 months on this and was going to sit down and put all of my observations into this blog to see if anyone agr… Continue
Posted on March 13, 2008 at 1:31pm — 7 Comments
Starting a Business 101, Priorities, Focus
Ok, Pat told me I should do this blog. So, I'm supposed to start talking to this computer about something and magically people will be wowed and amazed on my insights...
So, starting a business 101. It has been a great year, but a hard one. Nevery had this must fun not sleeping, and constantly obsessed with the business. I've been trying to nail down what is the first priorities of Business 101. Not as easy as you may think. Revenue is job 1 right? What about when revenue get's in the
… ContinuePosted on December 15, 2007 at 12:16pm — 9 Comments
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- At 1:42pm on September 3, 2009,
Mitch Shields said…
- Hi John,
I just was taking a look at http://vcloudexpress.bluelock.com and I noticed that at least one of the links for pricing (Click here for Pricing Details) takes you to http://thumpdesign.net/bluelock/?page_id=15. I was a little confused when I didn't notice the transition at first and went to bookmark the site.
Otherwise, I like the look and feel and am interested to see how the partnership with VMWare works out. Good luck!
- At 11:57am on June 30, 2009,
Tod Esquivel said… - Hello John,
We are working on a ning website but are at some challenges. Do you know of any web people who are good at working with ning sites? We will take whoever you know and speak to them about this project. Please fill free to foward my info also to any web people.
Tod Esquivel
2945 N. Lawndale Dr.
Indianapolis, Indiana 46224
317-289-1219
asktod@hotmail.com
Here are some of the barriers right now.
*having the public vote on video/written essay's where a member can only vote once. Just want to prevent any pitfalls with an online voting contest
*entries filling out online forms/essay's that will get fowarded to us
Everything else seems very easy to work with as an admin on ning.
Thank you! Tod Esquivel
- At 8:52pm on May 14, 2009,
Jerry Greene said… Hi John
Smaller Indiana is a great site for B2B networking, and it looks like you’ve been on the site for sometime now. I’m sure you’ve had the chance to use other social networking sites, so from your experience how do you rate Smaller Indiana? What do you like about the site, the people? What successes in your business can you attribute to networking online vs. in person? Do you see any improvements or features that you would find beneficial on Smaller Indiana?
Click Here to Join in the discussion Today- Jerry
- At 8:32am on January 17, 2009,
Lorraine Ball said… - John,
You might have been more right then you realized when you suggested we call the party the 4,400. As of this morning, we have 4,364 members, we will actually be pretty close to 4,400 by Tuesday night
- At 12:39pm on October 30, 2008,
Ginger Kreitl said… - Hi John. My name is Ginger Kreitl. I just joined Smaller Indiana yesterday to build my network in order to find employment in the Human Resources field. I recently graduated from Indiana Wesleyan University this past spring. I wanted to know if you had any ideas and/or contacts in the field?
- At 1:59am on September 14, 2008,
Jim Hindman said… - Hi John....Do you remember me? I interviewed with you a couple of months ago (referral from Ron Brumbarger) but you had no open positions at the time. Has anything changed?
I'm still looking for the right opportunity but haven't found it yet. I want to thank you for referring me to Time Warner (Barb Hansen). My interview went well but they had no open positions either. Please let me know if you can think of anyone else who could use someone with my background. Thanks, Jim
- At 9:53pm on March 11, 2008,
Pam Weaver said…
- Hey, Jay -- so nice to find you! You are a true entrepreneur's entrepreneur. I'd love to get caught up some time. Pam
- At 8:57am on February 21, 2008,
Bonnie Benshoof said… - Hi John. I would like to invite you to the business owners group> It is a great way to network with other companies as well as learn and gain knowledge and hopefully share some of the things that are of importance to you.Hope you decide to join. Thanks,Bonnie
- At 3:05pm on February 13, 2008,
Cathy Day said… - Thanks John for commenting on my blog posting! I appreciate that very much.
- At 6:06pm on December 21, 2007,
Mark Bucherl said… - I started a reply, then thought, hmm, maybe what I need is a remedial Start-a-Biz "001 Primer," as follows.
After repeating to myself for the umpteenth time regarding a corporate decision/strategy, "that's the wrong direction, and this is what should be done or what I'd do," Yes, absolutely, I've felt the START A NEW BUSINESS CALL..
Heck, I'm over 45! I can't make any "40 Under 40 (John, I'll nominate you at the appropriate time)" List, but by Gum I'll beat Colonel Sanders to initiating my start-up!!
Starting a business. Yes and he** yes!!
Then I balk at Reality, Line One: Fill in means of family support for a solo gig.
My first pass: Easy enough. I have friends who have friends who want to start in business -- I had an opportunity last summer, in fact to do just that and it looked promising.
In that instance, from out-of-the-blue, a nice offer and paycheck intervened. That half-a-billion dollar e-marketing e-cog position jammed. Now I'm back, looking at "Line One."
I have one and perhaps two potentially novel internet-based new business ideas. Aside from the flowchart diagrams and business planning documents I've napkin-mapped, what do I do next -- especially as it relates to filling in "Line One?"
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