Bill Grady - Owner/Creator of MyFortDodge.com

It's time for me to catch up on answering my fan mail for my podcast "You Are The Guest" , and I thought you might be interested in reading some of the e-mails that I get on a weekly basis.

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Friends of the podcast, a band from Texas called Common Ground sent this to me, and it is absolutely dead on. Anyone who has ever played in a band knows it to be true, and the truth can be funnier than anything else you could possibly make up.

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Just a couple more insights into how the Internet is forcing the traditional mainstream mediums to conduct their business. Is this particularly brand-new information? No, not really as predictions of trends like these have been coming for years. Heck, most people not involved in th… Continue

The trend toward user-created media, such as the things you'll find here at MyFortDodge.com (blogs, podcasts, videos, etc.) continue to grow at an astonishing rate, and show no sign of slowing down in the near future. In fact, it's predicted that the US audience for… Continue

I was cleaning out my hard drive this morning, and found and old audio file that I hadn't listened to in years.

Before I left the radio biz, I made a copy of the "All American City" broadcast and award presentation.

Back in 2001, about the only way you could listen to this was to have your own CD of the even… Continue

That's right, I like to rock.

Rebels and rock and roll go just seem to go together. If everything's better with Coke, every situation I want to rebel against goes better with a rock and roll soundtrack. As I'm working out at the end of the day, I'll find the most rocking, rebellious songs on my iPod, start the treadmil… Continue

Do you have sacks of money to burn on your marketing and advertising? All of the small businesses that I’ve come across say they don’t. Yet there are a good number of small businesses that have held their own marketing and advertising budget bonfires.

How does this happen? A conclusion I’ve come to is that many small businesses burn sa… Continue

I just created a new Group at MyFortDodge.com for my graduating class, FDSH Class of 1979. One of the video clips that I posted on the page features Wolfman Jack on May 18, 1979, which was just a couple of weeks before the Wolfman came to Fort Dodge for Frontier Days.

The Wolfman and I crossed paths a couple of times in our careers.

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When the grass was dried up and dead, I thought a little rain is exactly what we needed.

Then we received the rain, and everything started to perk up. The one thing I was hoping wouldn't perk up was the sump pump. Today it's not only perked up, it's running a marathon.

It's no surprise to me that we're getting this much all at once. My theory has been that if it's really dry during a long stretch, it will become very wet over another stretch, and then we'll be back to an average…

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When I was traveling a few years ago to Washington D.C., I stopped into one of those magazine stores at the airport to find something I could read during my flight. The headline from the June 21, 1999 issue of Fortune Magazine jumped off the rack. Since then this article has been one of my favorites to share with friends, associates, and clients.

“It’s rarely for lack of smarts or vision. Most unsuccessful CEO’s stumble because of one s… Continue