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September 10, 2025
Oh no you didn't
My wife: "Tom, you took 148 pictures yesterday?" Yes. Yes I did. Yesterday was a big day at MetLife Stadium. Our vendor/sponsor Verizon held an event for their 'Public Sector' customers and clients. My job was to invite as many of our NYDLA.org | NADLA.org members from NY/NJ/CT to the event. Mission Accomplished. OK, great day. Fantast...
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September 4, 2025
How it started... How it's going
According to my LinkedIn history, it was more than 30 years ago that my buddy was working for a company called CardConnect. He had the idea to offer all of the schools serviced by my company MTP - http://MyTeachingPartners.com credit card processing services. Sure, I said. Why not. The original name of NetSuite was NetLedger. Founded i...
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August 29, 2025
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
A few years ago we were a Tier 1 Platinum ELITE Partner for Verizon selling BlueJeans by Verizon. I loved, LoVed LOVED using and SELLING BlueJeans! At the time the NYDLA | NADLA was the #1 promoter of Zoom in North America. After all, it makes perfect sense that the DISTANCE LEARNING ASSOCIATION would be promoting all things Zoom, righ...
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August 27, 2025
It's like the Costco Chicken
I've had many mentors in my life. One, a Professor Emeritus of Business Administration, Darden School of Business, University of Virginia told me about how he was a member of Costco, but he never went inside. He did the math. He joined Costco for the cheap gas. The membership fee for Costco was a fraction of the cost of the net savings...
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August 22, 2025
Eat what you kill
The phrase "eat what you kill" is an idiom that originates from hunting, where it literally means consuming the animals you have hunted and killed. In modern contexts, it’s often used metaphorically to describe a system or mindset where individuals are rewarded directly based on their personal efforts, contributions, or results, withou...
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August 2, 2025
G.I. Joe Fan Club - It's a TRAP!
I now find myself in my 5th decade as a sales professional. I am old enough to remember when having an 800 number was a big deal. I remember when postage was $0.20 and you needed to make every direct mail letter count. I am old enough to remember newspaper ads and paying to have a business listed in The Yellow Pages. I remember when a ...
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July 31, 2025
Do you see the hidden message in the logo?
I met Fred Smith at a Yale Alumni event. FedEx should have never existed. If there was no Fred Smith, there would be no FedEx. Then I thought about Zoom. Zoom should not have existed. What if Eric Yuan never left Cisco? Just like 'what if' Fred lost that hand of blackjack? We always love to learn of the stories of the winners. Is it lu...
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July 30, 2025
Is this still a thing?
I remember when Webex by Cisco first it the scene, in 1995. I think the world shook a little. Ah yes, the birth of the webinar. The birth of the web meeting. WebEx, now part of Cisco, has a history rooted in online collaboration. Originally founded as ActiveTouch in 1996 by Subrah Iyar and Min Zhu, it later became WebEx Communications ...
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July 18, 2025
"Bonfire of the Vanities"
A vanity number is a phone number with a memorable or customized sequence of digits, often spelling out a word, phrase, or brand name using the alphanumeric keypad (e.g., 1-800-FLOWERS for 1-800-356-9377). It’s designed to be easy to recall and is commonly used by businesses for marketing and branding purposes. Years ago, I sold a ton ...
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July 3, 2025
Trade Winds Blow Strong!
Well, we are halfway through 2025 and here is lesson number one: Trade Shows are bigger and better than ever. Meetings and Events are always fun. But the trade shows, especially the big ones - they are lead generating machines. 10% of 10% of 10% is our guarantee: • If 50,000 attend a trade show, 10% or 5,000 will engage with you post-e...
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June 19, 2025
Good Food and Grog
This past week we attended a Zoom Partner event in NYC. Zoom is all about 'remote' but it just goes to prove that humans are social creatures. The Zoom 'Map and Mingle' Partner Event was at Electric Shuffle NYC at 44 W 30th. Perfect venue for such an event. What I noticed was this: many (many) small teams of people were hosting their o...
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May 29, 2025
MrZoom.us by day... DrZoom.us by night
"By day and by night" generally means throughout the day and night, or constantly. It can also describe situations where someone's activities or roles are different during the day and at night. So to keep it light, I'm www.MrZoom.us by day, and www.DrZoom.us by night.... Anyway... A few years ago, the folks from Verizon called me and a...
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May 26, 2025
And it makes me wonder...
Wonder.com is the website for Wonder, a service offering lightning-fast food delivery, takeout, and dine-in from over 20 iconic restaurants in one place. It allows customers to order from multiple restaurants in a single delivery, featuring cuisines like pizza, Mexican, Japanese, Italian, Indian, Greek, and more. The platform emphasize...
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May 24, 2025
BRONZE or Better in the (now) GlobalDLA.org
46,910 members of the (now) GlobalDLA.org attended HIMSS.org LIVE earlier this year. 40,000+ representatives of our members [our 174K+ schools, our 16K+ municipalities and our 6K+ hospitals] are sending a representative to Orlando to attend InfoComm LIVE in June. We expect that number to continue to grow. We are offering our vendors/sp...
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May 21, 2025
How the Magician Does the Trick
Purdue University Online has 600K+ alumni. Penn State World Campus has 775K+ alumni. Rutgers - the State University of New Jersey has 600K+ alumni and 300K+ live in New Jersey (like me!). For the first time in history, more people are paying schools for an online education than a traditional campus experience. More people are paying Pu...
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May 19, 2025
The Center of the Known Universe - THE BIG APPLE
Yes, I am pretty spoiled. I live 30 miles West of Times Square. Morris County New Jersey. There are 55M+ people living, learning, working, playing, teaching, training, coaching, mentoring in the New York Megalopolis. I can jump on the bus (or train) from BOONTON USA and be in The Big Apple in less than an hour, working from my laptop t...
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May 16, 2025
NYDLAatInfoComm.com
InfoComm is the largest ProAV show of the year. We are inviting the 174K+ schools, the 16K+ municipalities, and the 6K+ hospitals serviced by the NADLA.org to send someone to the show, with a free NADLA.org pass. As of this post, we have 38K+ who have registered to attend LIVE or virtually. We have the entire line cards of TD SYNNEX, D...
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May 15, 2025
When things turn into Pumpkins
We are a Kajabi Partner. At midnight tonight (5/23) our 'SUPER SPIFF' for Kajabi expires. The best NYDLA.org value-added member benefit (for Kajabi) turns into a Pumpkin. But for right now: • You can JoinNYDLA.org for 90 days for $99 • You can get PoweredByKajabi.com for 90 days for $99 • You can hire a STRATUSstaff.com POD (a Kajabi t...
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May 12, 2025
And now..... we follow up.................
When was the last time you attended an event (ANY SIZE) and you felt satisfied? That your time and money were invested well? Meetings & Events seem to be constant. There is ALWAYS something going on at Javits Center in NYC. I live 30 miles West of NYC and I could (I don't) go to Javits every day... and I would be able to network and me...
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May 10, 2025
Sorry, Sold Out.
I am back home in BOONTON USA from Connecticut. And I am reflecting on how what is old is new again. For meetings. LIVE (Live) vs. LIVE (Hybrid) vs. LIVE (100% online). The event on Yale Campus was small, LIVE and... small. Very intimate. The room only held a few hundred people. No Zoom. Do you know what was the most impactful, the mos...
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May 9, 2025
The GLOBAL Cloud COMMUNITY
"We are all living, learning, working, playing, teaching, training, coaching, mentoring in the GLOBAL Cloud Community. The future of work - the future of education - the future of entertainment - is in the Clouds." ~ Thomas A. Capone | CEO | MyTeachingPartners.com Half the world’s population — 𝟰 𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 — live in this small yell...
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May 7, 2025
The New York Megalopolis
There are 55M+ people living from Maine to Virginia. This is the old Bell Atlantic footprint. The Amtrak footprint. The 'New York Megalopolis' was the birthplace and home to the New York (Metro) Distance Learning Association. Living, learning, working, playing, teaching, training, coaching, mentoring from the Center of the Known Univer...
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May 3, 2025
Distance Learning > DIGITAL Learning > DIGITAL LIVING
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY.... more students are paying tuition for an online education vs. a traditional campus education. More people are paying PURDUE UNIVERSITY ONLINE than PURDUE UNIVERSITY. More people are paying PENN STATE WORLD CAMPUS than PENN STATE. There are 174K+ K-20 schools across North America. That is K-20 not K-12 a...
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April 30, 2025
With a little Yelp from my friends
If you are happy, tell a friend! If you are not happy, please tell ME! It recently hit me how much of our time (and money) and ATTENTION is spent in the sharing of our feelings. It is just the way we are wired as humans. If you discover a new restaurant and you have a good (or bad) experience, you tell your friends. If you find a new '...
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April 26, 2025
The Man with the Plan
So, 'Kajabi' is an all-in-one platform that helps creators and entrepreneurs build online businesses, particularly for selling digital products like courses, memberships, and coaching programs. The word "Kajabi" itself is said to be an aboriginal word meaning "to take flight." Full disclosure: the GlobalDLA.org is a Kajabi partner. Alo...
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April 21, 2025
Plating the meal
We just came back from Connecticut, celebrating Easter with the family. It was our first Easter with our new Grandson (first Easter with him walking around) so it was pretty special. During the end of the Easter Egg Hunt someone said "It's time to plate the meal" and I had to Google it - I never heard that phrase before. A plated meal ...
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April 18, 2025
Rooftop Bar Season
I am not sure there is anything better than Lunch 'n Learns and Sunset Seminars from the rooftops of New York City. The power of 'The Big Apple' allows one to organize a networking event with very little advance notice. There are plenty of apps to help to organize Meet Ups - both formal and informal. When you are having an event in NYC...
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April 16, 2025
A Boy and his Toys
This is the Madison Beach Hotel in Madison, Connecticut. It has become our 'go to' venue for Lunch 'n Learns and Sunset Seminars. The large meeting room can hold around 20 to 30 people comfortably. So that means that we can have: • 30+ people LIVE in the room • 300K+ LIVE via Zoom • 3M+ watching the archives via Workvivo by Zoom This a...
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April 15, 2025
10% of 10% of 10%
I've made a good living off the 10% of 10% of 10% formula. If you send out a zero spam, 100% opt-in email to a list of (let's say) 100,000 of your ideal client persona (ideal customers) you should be able to get: • 10% or 10,000 to engage deeply (Marketing Qualified Leads - MQLs) • And 10% of those would take a meeting, take a call, me...
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April 14, 2025
My first HEY! Blog
So, this is my first HEY! Blog powered by 37signals.com {done} TomCapone.com goes to my LinkedIn TommyCapone.com goes to my Bluesky ThomasCapone.com goes to my Sunday Blog 201-466-8442 is my cell for texting
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