Pimps Welcome? By Eric Seidel, CEO The Media Trainers, LLC “Say what you’ll do and do what you say!” Good life advice, especially for the way you do business. Certainly it’s an axiom that has come back to haunt Internet entrepreneur Craig Newmark. The “Adult Services” section of his Craig’s List, it seems, has become […]

By Eric Seidel, CEO The Media Trainers® Steve Jobs has generated a fair amount of reaction over how he conducted his news conference on the technical glitches suffered by Apple’s new iPhone 4. In a recent post (Steve Jobs & His iPhone 4’s Worm), I took Jobs to task for failing to open up his […]

By Eric Seidel, CEO The Media Trainers® Steve Jobs was right about one thing. He and Apple are not perfect. Jobs was talking about the dropped calls problem with the new iPhone 4. But he also proved he’s not perfect in how to handle the media fallout. Jobs was wrong to ban live broadcast coverage […]

Mexico Isn’t on Arizona’s Border? By Eric Seidel, CEO The Media Trainers, LLC The scene: Milwaukee. The event: a county supervisors’ meeting. The issue: that controversial law in Arizona to crack down on illegal immigrants. Speaking: Peggy West, a county supervisor. She doesn’t like the law, but for at least one reason that you might […]

The Call Heard ‘Round the World! By Eric Seidel, CEO The Media Trainers® There’s no question umpire Jim Joyce blew that call at first base. It would’ve been the 27th consecutive out and a perfect game for Detroit Tiger pitcher Armando Galarraga. In an unprecedented act of contrition, Joyce called in reporters immediately after the […]

   Steve Wynn    A Message for Washington        By Eric Seidel, CEO    The Media Trainers, LLC     Passionate, angry, fed up…maybe even giving up on the government in DC. Prominent Las Vegas developer and casino-resort hotel owner and operator Steve Wynn has very strong feelings about what’s going on inside […]