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tonydbaker.com Tony Darrick Baker is a leading Internet marketing expert having served more than 1,000 clients over 15 years. As an author and public speaker, Tony Darrick Baker has written several ebooks and has spoken at conferences throughout the United States. Baker has interviewed Mark Victor Hansen, Brendon Burchard, Alex Mandossian, Lorri Morgan Ferro, James Roche, Lynn Rose, Van Crouch, Dan Roam, Derek Gehl, Jim Stovall, David Meerman Scott, and a variety of other top authors, speakers and thought leaders.

20 March 2009 ~ 1 Comment

Day ? of The Tony Diet


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 [...]

18 March 2009 ~ 0 Comments

7 Marketing Truths American Idol Reveals

7 Marketing Truths American Idol Reveals

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 show [...]

17 March 2009 ~ 2 Comments

5 More Tips to Incredibly Successful Public Speaking


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 believe [...]

17 March 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Press Release Optimization for Internet Marketing


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 [...]

16 March 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Day 7 – This is tough!


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 out to [...]

14 March 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Day 6 – What happened to Days 4 and 5?


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, [...]

12 March 2009 ~ 1 Comment

Day 3 – Picture of Tony drinking Naked


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

11 March 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Day 2 – Getting Naked at QuikTrip


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 it easy [...]

09 March 2009 ~ 4 Comments

One Man’s attempt to lose 200 lbs in 1 year.

One Man’s attempt to lose 200 lbs in 1 year.

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 [...]

08 March 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Hillcreast Heart Pavilion

Hillcreast Heart Pavilion

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 good [...]