Relationship Building

How To Be Unforgettable, A Lesson From A Google Commercial

I have seen a lot of beautiful commercials but not many of them are unforgetable.

This commercial is based on a true story of a Googler.Most of us have lost something that is important to us at some point in your lives. It is something everyone can relate to. Everyone can see the reflection of themselves in it. Google was telling a story before trying to “sell”.

It touches people heart which makes it unforgettable.

If you want people to like something, create something beautiful.

If you want people to love something, create something people can relate to.

Being beautiful is easy,but beauty fades. There will always a newer, better version.

But if you can touch people’s heart, it is unforgettable.

Author name:: CamMi Pham
Publish date:: March 5th, 2012
Discussion:: 2 Comments

How To Find The Next Big Guy And Become His Friend

My father loves to brag about how I hang out with important people outside my family’s circles. He tells everyone that I like to have lunch with this new politician or showing up at this invited only hot business party. A lot of my friends became my father’s client or business partner, and he talks more about them. It gets really annoying after a while.

It is actually not that hard to manage meeting important people. You know I have a bubbly personality. I am everywhere, hang out with everyone, and treat them like my family. I guess that is my little secret. Read more…

Author name:: CamMi Pham
Publish date:: January 17th, 2012
Discussion:: 13 Comments

When Losing Is #Winning

In my house, I am the Monopoly Queen because I am invincible. No matter how unlucky I am, I always manage to win every game. My family told me I should become a professional Monopoly player. Read more…

Author name:: CamMi Pham
Publish date:: January 2nd, 2012
Discussion:: 1 Comment

You Can Divorse Husband/Wife, You Don’t Divorce Family

I have been a very bad blogger lately. My grandma is very sick in hospital and the doctor told us she has less than a week. I have been taking care of the kids while my family members are taking turn staying in hospital. To be honest it is very hard especially during holiday season.The last few days really make me think more about family.

The difference between family and friend is one is always yours, and the other isn’t. We are a family because no matter what happens, we will always be there for each other. We have to learn to forgive and forget because that is part of the deal. If one day we lose everything, the only thing we will have left is our family. Nobody wants to be lonely. Read more…

Author name:: CamMi Pham
Publish date:: December 21st, 2011
Discussion:: 1 Comment

Don’t Just Build Relationships, Nurture Them

I have been trying to write this post the last few months, but I each time I write tears roll out my eyes. It is about a lesson that I learned the hard way.

A year ago when I just joined Twitter, I was very lucky to have many Twitter Elites as my mentors, and @imadnaffa was one of them. I felt really special because he had around 40,000 followers at that time. It was a big deal for a newbie who only had 40 followers. We would exchange DMs everyday and Skype once in a while. I still remember he was always too busy to go out for lunch and I would tease him with my yummy food. Imad was a hard working man with a great heart. Who says Twitter friend is not real is wrong. He was a big brother, a father, a teacher to me. We were looking forward to meet each other in real life at TEDxCanton. It was the good old day before I became Miss Popular. Read more…

Author name:: CamMi Pham
Publish date:: November 21st, 2011
Discussion:: 47 Comments

A Community Is A Brand, Without A Community There Is No Brand

Yesterday I had a great meetup with John Krissilas the CEO, Co-founder of TransitHub [@TransitHubTO], a new location based startup in Toronto. TransitHub is a community for transit riders to connect, share, and discover the hidden gems around transit stations and stops. It is a very neat idea. I lived in Vaughan and now in North York. I might know the best place to get bubble tea on highway 7 but clueless about downtown Toronto. This app would be perfect for me. But more than just a cool app, our conversation was about the relationship between a community and a brand.

A community is a brand, without a community there is no brand.

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Author name:: CamMi Pham
Publish date:: November 2nd, 2011
Discussion:: 27 Comments

Don’t Just Share Good Content,Create An Experience

During my 14 months on Twitter, I have learned much more about life than I have in 4 years of university. Every day people asked me about how I got so many followers, to be honest I am not the best person to answer that question because I do not really care much about that number anymore. I have been a very competitive person all my life. If I am not the best, I feel like I have not tried my best. My parents taught me to look up to the people who are better than me. Never be to happy if you achieve something because it is the start of a new journey to conquer a bigger goal. If you had worked with me at my nonprofit a few years ago, you would have to hear this every single day “There is nothing impossible, we have to be the best or you should not be here.” A year ago my formal assistant and I had a talk, he told me “CamMi when I was working for you, I hated you. You have always pushed me so hard. But I have to admit I learned so much from it. If you did not push me like that I would never reach my full potential. Thank you.” In real life, I am more like the ruthless and cynical Miranda Priestly in The Devil Wears Prada than an angel. If I push my staffs very hard, I would push myself even harder. When I started Twitter I set a goal, in a year I have to be one of the Twitter elites. I have never been the smartest one, but I work very hard to get what I want. And of course I became an elite in less than a year.

Unity Is Strength

This is my guest post on Social Media Girlfriends one of my favorite Twitter Communities. You can find the original post here Enjoy

There is an old Asian tale about an old man who was dying. One day, he called all his sons to his bed, and told the eldest one to break some chopsticks. The son strained and strained but nothing happened to the bundle of chopsticks. Another son tried then another one, but nobody would be able to break them. The sick father asked the sons to give back the bundle of chopsticks. He took each stick and broke them easily, one by one. The old man said “Unity is strength” and breathed his last breath.