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Welcome to iamtallpoppy.com

My name is Casey. I am the director of the Tall Poppy Group. We take little things and find ways to make them grow. I hope you find this blog useful - It's a bunch of thoughts, lessons, insights, mistakes and observations; all from the quest to be a tall poppy in a status quo world.
No push. No pitch. Just the good stuff.

7 March 2010 0 Comments

This one is for free – Life is Learning

A person who knows stuff, but refuses to learn stuff will not be able to adapt to a changing environment. A person who doesn’t know stuff, but is a skilled learner and possesses the wisdom to apply that learning will adapt, master, and conquer any environment. I’m talking about all areas here – technical skills, people skills, diplomacy skills, sales skills, whatever. He who can adapt, wins.

7 March 2010 0 Comments

Entrepreneurs: Vimeo Vid

It goes very quickly, and it’s a little cheesy, but I like it. Enjoy.

Entrepreneurs can change the world from Pieterjan Vandaele on Vimeo.

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6 March 2010 0 Comments

What’s Your Dream?

I love the ride I’m on. I love what I’m learning, I love the success of it, I love the people I’m doing it with, I love the feeling or being a part of building something significant… Except for when its boring. Or I lose. Or the people I’m doing it with just don’t quite “get it”, or there are what seems to be insurmountable roadblocks.

Then what do you do?

5 March 2010 0 Comments

Facebook Marketing – Groups vs Pages

Which one do you think is best for a business? Here are some pros and cons.

5 March 2010 0 Comments

“UPS Delivery Problem NR *****” Virus Email

I got an email today from “UPS” about a delivery problem…
Although I do regularly send parcels to the USA, I could tell straight away that the email was fake. A quick Google confirmed it.

1 March 2010 0 Comments

SEO or PPC? Maybe we were meant to be together…

There’s two type of search engine marketing commonly bandied around the Internet marketing water-cooler nowadays… Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Pay-Per-Click (PPC). While SEO has had a more recent rise to fame, both have their own roles to place in a Search Engine Marketing (SEM) campign…

1 March 2010 0 Comments

Downgrading a Toshiba L300 to Windows XP

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My boss got a new Toshiba L300 laptop for the office.
It came preinstalled with Windows Vista Basic, which presented 3 problems:
1. Vista basic cannot be joined to a domain,
2. My boss has never used Vista or Windows 7, and I decided that the transition from the interface XP to the “newer” Windows [...]

26 February 2010 0 Comments

Outsourcing my life – Week 1

I mentioned in this post about getting a concierge service, delivered through a flat fee, through my credit card provider. Here’s an update on some of the tasks I’ve put them to in the past week:

Sourcing Adobe Creative Suite at the lowest possible price
Determining routes, pricing, and schedules for a coast to coast trek across [...]

20 February 2010 1 Comment

What Is Your Password IQ?

Your passwords are the key to your online and banking security. The trade off between a password that is easy to remember and secure is one we all make, but more often that not people err too much on the side of simplicity. Simplicity is the enemy when it comes to passwords – Remember that there ARE people out there constantly trying to breach your online identity – to which your passwords are the door key.

18 February 2010 0 Comments

Pleaserobme.com: Website uses social Geo-tagging to tell Burglars when you’re not Home

Pleaserobme.com is a new website that keeps track of geo-tagging data posted on Foursquare and others, and notifies users of when particular users aren’t at home. Not at home = great time to rob a house (I’m told.)