Scott Ahlsmith, CTC's - Roads Less Traveled

Lifting My Kimono

Anyone telling you they have this blog-thing figured out is trying to sell you something.  That is one reason why I maintain 6 different blogs and will create a 7th this weekend. 

I want to make sure whatever advice I give our "YOU! the Brand." clients and travel industry colleagues comes from firsthand trial-and-error experiences.  I believe in sharing failures as well as successes because we learn from both.

Speaking of learning, Darren Rowse's Problogger site is one of the best blogging classrooms on the Web today.  Every visit to Problogger always adds fuel to my blogging engine plus Darren adds new and innovative slants to how we can best use blogs to communicate our messages and improve our blogs' value propositions.

It's All About the People You Meet

We travel to collect better stories, but the best stories involve the people we meet. 

Yesterday, I had the honor of meeting my "coach," Lisa Haneberg in Seattle.  We talked about time management, caffeine levels in Seattle's harbor, Webinars, breakthroughs, interviewing & hiring, time chunking, writing, hotel management, chili peppers, motorcycles, the rolling hills of Tuscany, Luigi, blogs, 5-sensing, podcasts, leadership, and a couple other topics.  It was a jam-packed hour.

I met Lisa when she presented her "Loveable Brand" Webinar for Cruise West. Lisa's support of marketing the travel experience versus the travel product and price was music to my ears.  I enjoyed and benefited from her common-sense approach that I attended her Webinar a second time.

Just-In-Time Inspiration

Ralph Marston posseses an marvelous talent for sending me an inspirational quote that is exactly appropriate for the day's tasks.  As I prepare today to promote "YOU! the Brand." and achieve my goal of 1,000 branded professional travel sellers before the end of 2006, I receive the following e-mail message from Ralph. 

Your deepest desires are intensely personal. And yet the best way to express and fulfill them is by bringing their value to as many other people as possible.

Ralph Marston--Copyright (C) 2006 Ralph S. Marston, Jr. All rights reserved.

Visit The Daily Motivator web site at  for an archive of more than 2,500 daily messages, inspirational photos and more.

Thank you, Ralph!  It's an honor to be plugged into your universal flow of thoughts and ideas.