Turns out that May is National Burger Month.
That doesn’t exclude my veggie friends as most every place has a non meat alternative, so stop right now!

Over at A Hamburger Today I found

Here are some events going on in the burger world this month:

• May 6: Philadelphia Burger Brawl, taste 23 burgers from around the city to raise money for Meredith Elementary School
• May 11: Riverwalk Burger Battle III, 24 burgers compete in Fort Lauderdale
• May 13-19: NY Burger Week, a week of special burger-related events brought to you by Burger Conquest and Thrillist
• Daily (weekday) $50 giveaways at Bill’s Bar and Burger in NYC
• Month-long shakes at Shake Shack for $2 donation to Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry campaign
• Month-long daily burger specials at Iron Hill Brewery in PA, NJ, and DE
• Month-long daily burger specials at Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, CT
• Weekly burger specials at Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville; $1 of each specialty burger sold will be donated to the Wounded Warrior Amputee Softball Team
• New loyalty program from White Castle, Craver Nation

Which sounds great an all but I live in the San Francisco Bay Area -
But Hey, I really could get behind this!  One of my favorite blogs I follow is BurgerJunkies.com and to celebrate, they’re giving away a Canon T3!  How cool is that?  Here’s the fixins.

A very long time ago I wrote about the ability to create lists on Foursquare and actually created one near and dear to my heart (oops!  unintentional inside pun to my friend Jay) My Best Burger List!

Related articles

• We’re Celebrating National Burger Month With a Burger a Day, All Throughout May (washingtonian.com)
• Check it Out: NY Burger Week 2012!!!! (mmmguide.com)
• Happy Hamburger Month: The Top 15 Burger Bloggers (savings.com)
• New Yorkers: Help Us Find New York’s Worst Burger [Hamburgers] (gawker.com)

Mike Mueller

Mike builds the custom Apps that create the Tabs that make Custom Facebook Pages special. He builds Discount WordPress Blogs and shoots commercial high def video. He's an avid hockey fan, rides a motorcycle (a really fast one), loves strong beer and good red wine.

                          

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And even though I’m not as efficient blogging machine as Mr. Mike Mueller; blogging has been a major contributor to the bottom line of my business.  But like what our grandmas used to say, If you want a sweet, juicy fruit you would have to wait for it to ripe in the tree.

Adopt the Pace of Nature: Her Secret is Patience — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Five years from now, where do you want to be the best at? And how are you planning on going about it?

When I asked myself that question, I was a young real estate agent in the best luxury brokerage in town.  I did not and could not sell a million dollar home.  What I began to discover is if I want to sell a high-end home, I need not only be the best in marketing the home, I needed to brand myself deserving of that listing.

Arrggh.

I hated this, to be honest with you.  But that’s how our culture has evolved esp. the last ten years.

“Brands are how you sort out the cesspool.” –Eric Schmidt, Ex CEO, Google

I needed to look the part –fake it til’ you make it! Well, I did work really hard at it (remarkable content, layout, design, SEM) when a flashbulb idea came to me one day: I was walking past the office of the top real estate agent in our office; everybody knew her, she had five assistants, she was very involved in the community, and overall, just such a nice and fine lady.

I told myself: there is absolutely no way I can win over her in a prospective listing appointment.  Nobody knew me.  I didn’t have the foggiest history of selling high end homes.

BUT….

Online… We were on equal grounds.  Out of state home buyers wouldn’t know who she is or me.  I have a much better chance of winning, if… I blaze a new trail. If I play in a whole new playing ground. Something that very few, at that time, have blazed.

The started my five year journey.  A few years after, I closed my first ever million dollar deal.  I didn’t know a single soul in the area.  I got him off my blog.

We have in our midst the greatest marketing opportunity the world has ever known.

But it took sweat and tears to be working on the site day in, day out.  Even harder, coming back in the ring once you quit.  Yes, I quit. Twice.  But you just have to pick yourself up and start fighting again.  Not seeing results you want? Tweak, master your craft, study other’s past successes.

Rinse and Repeat.

And this applies to social networking, SEO, PPC or Facebook campaigns.  Five years flies.  I can tell you that wholeheartedly.

I want you to succeed.  It’s worth every ounce of effort.  We have in our midst the greatest marketing opportunity the world has ever known.  But focus, focus, focus.  Don’t get caught up in the fads of never ending search for shiny new ideas — “You Don’t Gotta Have It”.   This is the only way to stand out.  Focus.

I see Mike as an example of this — how many proclaim themselves to be social network gurus? Tends of Thousands. How many does the work require to live up to that title? Not a lot. No wonder Mike’s “the guru of the so-called social gurus.”

Godspeed.

Joe Salcedo

Joe ponders about business models more than super models. He has been writing about the Reno Real Estate market since 2007 and in the summer of 2010 started ArrowCreek Homes for Sale. He hasn't seen an Entourage episode ever since. His dream is to unabashedly propagate easy-to-understand market stats to help buyers and sellers make informed real estate decisions. He has seen too many casualties. He resides in Nevada.

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