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How To Move On From Where You Thought You Would Be (Career)

Posted on September 13, 2015December 10, 2023 by Paul

Tim Tebow can’t play football. Sure he could kill you or I in the sport, but when it comes to playing in the Pros, nope. It’s not like the guy didn’t win a National Championship. It’s not like he didn’t win the Heisman Trophy – the two highest achievements in College football – he did….

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How To Really Fix A Business

Posted on September 11, 2015December 10, 2023 by Paul

I was called into this business that I knew it pretty well. We had been working together on some online stuff for a while and they wanted me to be their marketing consultant. They asked me to come in because sales were slowing and they just weren’t sure what was going on – but with…

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That Time A Photographer From New York Shows Up To Take Your Picture For GQ Magazine

Posted on September 10, 2015December 10, 2023 by Paul

“I want to come back down and do your portrait.” “Really?” “Yes, I want to pitch an article to GQ or at the least, Inc. Magazine.” “Ok” That was Wesley Mann, a world famous photographer. Wesley had done portraits of Presidents of the US, famous athletes, the most famous celebrities, and yes, even a few…

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How I Look For Opportunity, And What I Do When I Find It

Posted on September 9, 2015December 10, 2023 by Paul

I was sitting at the bar at Ford’s Garage in the Cape minding my own business when another guy came in and sat a few seats down around the corner. I had just ordered something to eat. When the food arrived I took one bite and was done. There wasn’t anything wrong with it, I…

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Don’t Trap Schoolkids In Their Bus On The Way Home (Part 1)

Posted on September 8, 2015December 10, 2023 by Paul

I tried to turn an 800 acre piece of dirt into a marketing company. It mostly succeeded until it ultimately failed. Here are the thoughts behind the process – and why I felt like it needed to be done. Our story starts with me having $8 and a half a potato (if you’ve not read…

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Why Side Gigs Are The Best Kind Of Gigs

Posted on September 8, 2015December 10, 2023 by Paul

Jerry Seinfeld’s Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee just might be the best show of all time. I love that show. It’s actually how this site began. Paul King’s Pocket Lint was supposed to be me doing the almost exact same thing he does on that show, only local. With local celebrities. People of interest to…

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I Built The Largest Private Online Marketing Company In SWFL, Why Haven’t You Heard Of Me?

Posted on September 7, 2015December 10, 2023 by Paul

“You kill it all the time buddy.” That’s what a fiend of mine said to me when I told him the local southwest Florida company I was working for was approaching 150,000 online fans. We were on my radio show, Redneck Radio, on 100,000 watt powerhouse KROCK. I had over 15,000 fans for my show….

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We need Open Doors and Opportunity in order to move forward, become healthier, and live better lives.

Spiritual, emotional, physical, and financial improvements can only come from finding and using Open Doors and Opportunity to your advantage … (more)

Welcome to Open Doors and Opportunity!

My name is Paul and I’m the owner of this blog.

The picture of me above was taken by a very famous photographer who has also photographed Presidents of the United States, numerous celebrity actors and various sports professionals, as well as other business professionals like myself.

I was supposed to have a feature article written about what a great marketing professional I was in GQ Magazine, or Fortune Magazine, or Forbes, or Playboy … one of those … but then, things went sideways.

Really sideways.

The article was never written, the photo was never used anywhere, I was fired from the job that made that photo possible, I lost my home and ended up traveling all over in my pick-up truck (known as Unit #4)  and staying in various Wal-Mart parking lots (what I like to call the Wal-Mart Condo Association) for 2 years.

In the meantime, I’ve done everything. I’ve been a partner in the largest nightclub in SWFL, written songs with Grammy Winners in the Songwriter Hall of Fame, started as a public relations grunt and worked my way to Chief Marketing Officer of a restaurant group, and much, much, much more and many things.

It’s been a crazy life – with highs and lows not experienced by anyone who ever “played it safe” — but I was born to live, and so, that’s what’s I’ve done. These are just some of those (all true 100%) stories.

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