Ted Bailey

Blogs,books and magazine articles from the writings of the author Ted Bailey.

Saturday, May 11, 2013

The Personal Marketing System

Now that the economy is not just creeping back but flooding back into existence, marketing will be the key to making it big.

Of course, the new method, which is the social media, is quite controversial to some marketing and sales managers, but it's up to the do'ers to take the ball and run with it.  As usual, sales numbers speak louder than opinions.

So, as the sales people on the front lines begin their own marketing systems, despite the negative lashings of corporate old-timers, a new phenomenon is emerging:  Personal Marketing Systems.

I'm not going to call it PMS for obvious reasons, but this system is just as independent and personal as you want to make it.  Social media, blogs, Twitter, ... whatever else you can imagine is making marketing more of a personal thing than any corporate sales strategy your sales manager can push on you.  The bottom line is, as always, the bottom line....your personal bottom line. 

As your bottom line grows, and I don't mean the one you sit on, others will take notice.

You win.

Monday, September 03, 2012

My New Books

Monday, September 03, 2012


The Middle of the Year of 2012 and we still exist. On this holiday of Labor Day, celebrated in the US as an unofficial end to Summer, I am sitting on the sofa with my laptop and writing away on a new "How-to" book about computer networking for the office professional who isn’t a computer expert.

Every day I hear the same old questions from office workers.  "How do I add a print driver?  Which driver do I add?  How can I connect a copier as a scan-to-email device?  How do I troubleshoot a network?"

The answers to these questions are sometimes a little complicated for those with little training in networking skills.  As computer systems become automatic, we don't need as many finely-tuned skills as before, but for now, a booklet on how to solve this chaotic menagerie of wires and electronics would be helpful.

The layout is easy to follow.  You can find it on Amazon.com soon.  It's called Take Control of Your Office Network.

What's more, in my spare moments (goofing off times) I find I am sketching out the newest fiction piece I am planning about the near future, so close we can reach out and touch it. I really believe the story is tomorrow's reality.  It's not fantasy.  The whole thing is based on real science.  Combine that with the current trend in politics and social environment and you have..."Eternal Future".
One word…

Run.

Sunday, August 12, 2012

What I'm Working On...and www.TedBailey.com

After four years of being off the air I started pulling up my old shows off the hard drive where I keep a bunch of them. 

Totally amazing!

My team back in China was phenomenal even by today's standards.  After listening to a couple of old shows I got a wild hair and started sending out feelers to radio stations around the country for a possible syndication.  I think it can happen.  In today's world of politics, sports, and religion, there is little else except the social media.  That gave me an idea.  I'll integrate all of it into a new show.  That's it!  As I mold the new idea into being, let's see how it evolves. 

Meanwhile, I have a new book in the making, this time I'm jumping headlong into my raison d'etre:  science fiction.  Can't say a lot now, so stay tuned to the blog for more.

Shifting channels, I have once again acquired my own domain, which I had lost a couple of years ago and now reacquired it.  I'm ecstatic!  It's as if I had lost a part of my body and now it's found...reattached...and about to be fully functional once again.  A new website will follow: www.tedbailey.com

Sunday, October 16, 2011

ANARCHY 2012

This coming year could see more government bashing since the sixties in the US.

With peaceful demonstrations in every large city in America, journalists are starting to take notice.  Maybe the government as well.

The strategy of the new generation (but not so new) of demonstrators is that of relative stealth.  They aren't too ready to blast out open concerns, and that's a smart way to go. 

If the demonstrators give away their position too early, they open themselves up for early argumentation that could undermine their purpose.  By remaining a bit on the secret side, they can allow the curious observer to form his own ideas about the purposes of the demonstrations.  That's the big difference between the sixties and now. 

Basically, the demonstrators are simply making a statement against the way government is handling the country.  There isn't one particular problem; there are many.  To state one or two concerns would jeapardize the movement.

Bottom line:  demonstrations like these don't happen over a single issue, but rather the buildup up many.

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Surprise: The Democrats are Tearing Down Big Business Again?


Seeing China’s role as the leader in manufacturing and refusing to allow the Yuan to float is seen by some as predatory, so as stated by Princeton’s Professor Paul Krugman. But I ask you, how is that different from the Republican rich in America, who if given the opportunity, would stop at no end to expand their business to the point of monopoly, despite the rules of the SEC or world-wide opinion. By convention, they view it simply as strength.

President Barack Obama today in a press conference in the wake of the banking industry’s recent government bail-out, blatantly exhorted governmental control to prevent any one bank from being able to exert enough control over an entire national economy again. Tell me if I’m wrong, but isn’t that what the Securities and Exchange Commission is supposed to do?

I’m sure the employees of the SEC have had the easiest job in the government for last eight years or more. By doing nothing, they have gained whole-hearted support from the Republican leadership. No doubt the agency budget must be minuscule, lest they run amuck, slashing big business into smaller ones.

But, alas! As of today, I’m sure they are jumping to their feet and dusting off the computer systems and ancient policy manuals and wondering what the agency’s mandate is all about. The president seems hell-bent on making them go back to work, after all.

Do I see a new appointee on the horizon for the coming new-and-improved agency to be? No doubt, a complete reformation of the organizational chart will be the order of the day and, of course, an ample new budget, a blank check, if you will, providing such an ambitious endeavor is still a possibility in the recently-leveled Congressional playing field.

How much change will actually be implemented in the Obama administration is now a toss of the coin, a bet in Vegas, or a prediction by the psychics at this point. Bluntly, it’s up in the air as it’s anyone’s guess, Nobel-Prize winning economist or bar room darts player. Agreement in the American government in the near future on anything will be seen as nothing less than a miracle.

C-Span ratings will no doubt fall to a new record low as the government is stymied in petty party politics in the coming months, while the economy continues to crash in the manufacturing sectors of the US, all while China has the last laugh.

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Today is the first day of the blog.

Here's what has happened. I was living in China, Shanghai to be exact, and I couldn't access this blog site, because ****'ing China blocked it. I couldn't even get to my own Websites!

Anyway, upon returning to the US, I have reinstituted a lot of communications, including Linked In, MSN Windows Live, i.e., the ConnecTed.spaces.msn.com site, a new Facebook site, and now, this Blogger site.

Also, I'm finally working on the books I have procrasted into not doing in China. This is 2010 coming up in the next few days. At least one book and many articles are about to burst forth into the public from me this new year...that is, if I live long enough to see it.

Ying Ying is in China, trying to drum up some more CCTV business, but by the looks of things in the retail economy, China is suffering more than the US. Kinda laughable, isn't it? Especially when you think about all the industry they have stolen from this country, not to mention products. What goes around, comes around.

Let's light up the new year with great things. To start things off, I want to start a new slogan: "Just say it!"

Monday, April 09, 2007

It seems one or more of my blogs are consistently blocked by China. It's just one of those realities of not having freedom of speech.

Honestly, I don't understand anyone who would want to live in such a country on an extended basis, unless you have to. Freedom is illusive there.

I'll keep trying to communicate. That's all anyone can do.

Ted