The Creative Minds Summit will be at Noshville

December 17 at 6:00pm. Please RSVP if you are going to join us because I need to know how much room we'll be needing. Thanks and I look forward to another night of ideas, creativity and great people.

Exciting news from Webbspun Ideas in Nashville

I will have some new services to offer very soon for groups and businesses so check back shortly after Christmas. These will be fun for local Nashvillians and visitors to our great city as well. I look forward to sharing this news and I look forward to an exciting 2010!

Join Creative Minds Network today

Do you want to be able to meet, talk and work with idea driven, creative people? Well, join us at Creative Minds Network and be a part of an exciting new movement in Nashville to bring like-minded people together and help each other grow and prosper.

Contact me today for more information and how you can be a part of this exciting group.

Corey Webb

P.O. Box 112

Cross Plains, Tn 37049

corey@webbspunideas.com

615-400-0966

Success with the Creative Minds Summit tonight

Had a small group for the first Creative Minds Summit but it was a great time and we talked about a lot of things. Ideas were hatched and future meetings were planned. Are you in for the next one?

Customer service and hospitality

When you go into a hotel or any type of business and you hear about customer service and hospitality, does it ever feel fake? The words ring hollow to often because they say them as long as you can bring money to them and it is a one way street. Once you need them to extend a favor or the hospitality back your way they just don't seem to care about you like they did before.

I've heard many frequent flyers and hotel chain members who complain about being one night or flight short of reaching the top level of membership and when they ask for the night to be given to them, they are told no. Yet when these companies need the business of the travelers, like now or after 9/11 they said and did all the right things to get people to come back and stay or fly with them. Soon after business was back to normal, they eased back and starting changing they way they handled frequent travelers needs.

Now I understand that businesses are in business to make money and I'm all for that but please don't be fake and pretend like you care so much about the customer. Yes, I've been in the hospitality industry for most of 20 years and most people that I've worked for truly care to keep the guest happy and it can be discouraging when you are told to do things a certain way and then at some point in begins to change and it is solely to save money.

Getting out and communicating with the public through Twitter, blogs, emails, newsletters and the like are great but people can see when you truly care and when you are just looking to get their money. They don't want to be nickeled and dimed to death but would be willing to pay a decent price to have everything included.

I would love to see the best of both worlds come together. The modern convenience and technology mixed with the old-school way of caring for the person right in front of you and not just seeing them as a dollar sign or a number.

As the economy changes and people reevaluate how they do business and whether or not they even have to travel will begin to see many businesses change how they treat the public. If not, they may not make it long term.

Southwest Airlines is a great example of that. They do things that make flying with them a joy. The other airlines don't and then they complain about the things that Southwest Airlines does. Change or close up shop may be the answer.

I just want the companies and businesses to do what they say and be genuine. Don't be shy about making money but don't try to rip everyone off in the process or be two-faced about it.

Thanks and have a good day.

Made in America - Wind Energy

Yesterdays quote from the Webbspun Ideas newsletter

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else for that matter.
~Lee Iacocca

Quote from Henry Ford

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

- Henry Ford

A new year that is full of possibilities

Happy New Year! I hope 2009 is going well for each one of you and that this is the year of joy, success and many good surprises. Do you have any new years resolutions? Whether you do or don't, take the time to make this one...Make a resolution with yourself to be a betterperson. That is my resolution because I want to be a better person inevery way.Take the next 300+ days to make a change and create a success. To do this the best, give back and help others while creating your success and changing your own destiny.

Teach someone how to do something so they can become a success as well. Be a mentor and remember, "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."

Great quote by Denis Waitley

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.
~Denis Waitley

Wobbling Tables? This will solve that problem

http://www.stabletable.co.uk/

Sales of a gadget to stop tables wobbling that was laughed off by Dragons' Den business experts have now totalled half a million pounds.

One expert, Rachel Elnaugh, called the Stabletable device "the most ridiculous idea" she had ever seen. Its Surrey inventor Andrew Gordon had the idea after drinking five pints with friends at a wobbly pub table. He woke up with a hangover the next day and designed the gadget by cutting up a cereal box.

"The table in the pub was wobbly and someone suggested moving to a stable table," he said. And he added that his "incredibly simple idea" was meant to be "a bit of fun".

The gadget has eight thin plastic strips which swivel out to the required thickness to stop a table wobbling.

Mr Gordon has since sold just under 500,000 Stabletables, selling three for £3.99. The Exam Officers' Association has ordered 200,000 of the gadgets, and negotiations are under way with Tesco and B&Q.Mr Gordon said Cambridge University and the tea room at Kensington Palace were also customers.

Speaking about his appearance on Dragons' Den, which offers ordinary people a chance to pitch their business ideas to rich but ruthless investors, he said: "It is not even good to have proved them wrong, it's just quite satisfying that it's kicked off. 'Stuck to conviction' A BBC spokesperson added: "The dragons make their own business decisions." Although they didn't back Andrew, it's great that he stuck to his conviction about his product. "Hopefully this will encourage other inventors and entrepreneurs."

The 31-year-old Scot, who lives in Camberley, appeared on the BBC programme two years ago.The marketing manager put his idea to the panel of five experts, but Ms Elnaugh's comments were followed by a chorus of like-minded derision from the other judges. They included telecoms tycoon Peter Jones and health club guru Duncan Bannatyne. Red Letter Days, Ms Elnaugh's company, went into administration shortly after the show, but was thrown a lifeline by Mr Jones and more recent dragon retail guru, Theo Paphitis.

New Convention Center in Nashville

Should we fund a convention center before we know the size, design and cost?

This is a question I ask over the last week in a poll on my blog and all the votes were along the same lines of my feelings for the project. The people of Nashville should not have to pay for something, via taxes, until we know the size, measurements, cost and planning ahead of time.

There were some people who voted for the idea of having it be planned, owned and funded privately and I again agree with a lot with the way of thinking. I just don't think taxpayers money should be taken without our agreement and without us knowing what we are getting into.

No city should plan on something and begin the taxation process without first letting the people of that city know what is involved.

Do you agree? Let me know what you think and what you feel the best way to handle it is...