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CHANNEL SPONSORS

INBOUND MARKETING CHANNEL SPONSOR – HubSpot

INFOGRAPHICS CHANNEL SPONSOR – Voltier Creative

SOCIAL CHANNEL SPONSOR – Full Sail University

Marketing Pilgrim’s Social Channel is proudly sponsored by Full Sail University, where you can earn your Masters of Science Degree in Internet Marketing in less than 2 years. Visit FullSail.edu for more information.

REPUTATION CHANNEL SPONSOR – Trackur

Marketing Pilgrim’s Reputation Channel is sponsored by Trackur’s social media monitoring tools. Plans start at just $18 a month and you are up and running in just 60-seconds!

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One of the problems facing our march toward a more equitable version of the online world is the simple fact that not everyone has the same means to be online. Of course, another simple fact is that those who are too poor to have access to the Internet are not usually the folks that online marketers would like to target because they don’t have the money to spend on their products. Let’s just say it’s not a good situation overall and leave it at that.

One could argue that if people could get online they might have a better chance of moving up out of the ranks of the impoverished. Of course, there is no guarantee that being online would actually improve someone’s lot in life since there is just as much of a chance that someone would get caught up in the crappy side of the online world thus bringing them (or just keeping them) down. That’s a matter of free will.

I would say that the hardest part about becoming an entrepreneur is learning how to work with people. It’s hard because everyone is different. Everyone communicates differently. Everyone has different ideas and expectations. Everyone has a different agenda.

This week I learned that sometimes it doesn’t matter how good you are at communication, some people are only interested in themselves. Some people are content with taking advantage of others.

Some people are jerks.

Learning this helped me realize that sometimes I have to be a jerk too.

Gandhi once said, “An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.” Gandhi was an amazing human being, but you can tell from that quote that he never had a web development client!