The Best Hot Dog - Gray's Papaya

I'm just returning from a marathon trip to New York:

• Red-eye flight Sunday night
• Two hour nap at hotel
• Eight hours of meetings to prep for our client meeting
• Five hours of sleep
• 90 minute client meeting
• 15 minutes lunch at Gray's Papaya
• Flight home
  

I'd never been to Gray's Papaya before, but a colleague refused to leave New York without one of their hot dogs.

The "Recession Special" was priced at $4.95 and I got two hot dogs (one with sweet onions and the other with ketchup and mustard) plus a cup of Papaya drink.

Perhaps I was delirious, perhaps just really hungry. But I placed it on my top 20 list of restaurants. Now, everytime I come to NYC, I'll be required to have one of their dogs.

Twitter: The New P.R.

I have a great employee, Courtney, who has been wanting to bring FranklinCovey into the 21st century. So, she has started the official Stephen R. Covey facebook account, the official FranklinCovey Facebook fan page, the official FranklinCovey YouTube account and now the official Stephen R. Covey Twitter account.

At first I was sceptical. Who would ever want to follow these micro-blogs. 140 characters. Too basic? Too simple?

I'm now a believer.

I am truly amazed at the viral nature of Twitter. Within just a few weeks, we have 600 Twitter followers including many other authors and celebs like Tony Robbins and Oscar de la Hoya. The marketing power behind Twitter is amazing. It it truly the new PR.

We can try to get people to come to our website, or we can go to where the people are. It's really exciting to go where the people are already congregating and provide them with something the really want.

If we continue at this pace we'll have a great social community on Twitter where we can really help people and help educate them on how to be more productive in their lives, at work and in society.

By the way, you can follow my Twitter here :)