Tony Darrick Baker

Well blogging about my diet has gotten pretty boring. Not because blogging is boring, but rather my diet is boring. 1: Little to no progress on weight loss – but at least I’m not gaining. 2: I’m eating and drinking pretty much the same thing every day, so why mention it over and over right? [...]

American Idol is an amazing reflection of 7 of the most important marketing truths that many of us tend to forget about. Playing it safe isn’t good enough. There’s nothing worse in American Idol than listening to some average song that you’ve already heard someone sing. Likewise, if the contestants do not reach out and [...]

I love public speaking. I am blessed with the courage and I think a bit of talent to successfully communicate and motivate people through the art of public speaking. But it’s not all blessing and it’s not all art. There are some rules that I’ve picked up along the way. Yesterday, David Meerman Scott, who [...]

I’ve been doing press release optimization since before it was cool. A few years ago, nobody had really considered how Press Releases distributed directly to the public could be an amazing way to get news about your company distributed throughout the web. Yahoo was one of the first we noticed that started publishing our Press [...]

Well I’ve got to tell you. This is a tough road. Today I started out great with a V8, a couple vitamins, and my favorite drink.. a diet pepsi. I was bill collecting and dealing with some outstanding issues with clients, so the stress was getting up a little bit. Finally I decided to head [...]

I think I’m losing track of days here. Yes, Day 2 was published on Day 3, but it was actually about Day 2. Then we had a couple of off days… Thursday was okay.. I got a little Naked at Starbucks. It was about 8oz. This time I had something that was very green, but [...]

If you want to see me drink Naked, then now is the time. I can’t believe I’m actually doing this on the Internet where it will last forever! I’ve always wanted to drink Naked, but I guess I just wasn’t too sure about it. You gotta love this

Well it’s only day 2 and my schedule has been thrown into a quandary. For the next few weeks at least I anticipate driving about 50 minutes round trip in order to help with internet marketing and consulting for a fantastic company that is about 20 miles north of Tulsa. Today I wanted to take [...]

For years I’ve been overworked, underpaid, and spending much more of my time worrying about taking care of others than I have been on taking care of myself. Here I am today. In the last month I’ve gone from about 468lbs to 458. My goal. To lose 200lbs in 1 year. On TV, the fat [...]

Well I just got back from the heart clinic.  I took advantage of the Hillcreast Heart Pavilion open house today in Tulsa.  They did free screenings and had a good deal of free advice.  There must have been at least a few hundred people there in the couple of hours that I was there. It’s [...]

I’m reading my preview copy of “World Wide Rave” by David Meerman Scott. I’m about to put some of his research and concepts to action. Stay tuned. -Tony

I just met with some friends and we all agreed that “The Tony Diet” was a great idea. Stay Tuned for more info!