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✦ October
Beginning again
Our son Matthew was born last Wednesday. It is time for my wife and I to begin
again. We have
Archives, Notes, etc.
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✦ September
7 daily decisions of success
I’m sure I didn’t come up with these 7 daily decisions of success. Regardless,
they’ve been on
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✦ September
The simple answer
> The simplest answer is usually the right one ~Occman’s Razor
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam's_
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✦ September
Don't forget S.W.O.T. analysis
It’s planning season for 2013. You may have already started identifying goals
and outlining budget items for next year.
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✦ September
Movie Lessons: Almost Famous
My friend Christopher Laney shared with me a post he wrote about a lesson from
the movie, Almost Famous [http:
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✦ August
5 Mistakes That Will Crush your marketing strategy (and how to avoid them)
A marketing strategy is difficult task for many brands and organizations to
create. They have many variables and to develop
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✦ August
Revisiting Mr. Ogilvy
> You cannot bore people into buying your product; you can only interest them in
buying it. ~ David Ogilvy
I
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✦ August
Never fade away
“It’s better to burn out than fade away.”
Thanks toVic Magary [http://www.vicmagary.com/], I ran across this
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✦ August
Inventory the present for future success
Taking inventory of the present is one of the best things you can do when
pursuing a new goal.
It
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✦ August
Movie Lessons: Batman Begins
It’s not who you are underneath, but what you do that defines you.
I’ve heard nothing but good
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✦ July
Truth matters
> A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its
pants on. ~ Winston
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✦ July
Be encouraged
Be encouraged. Yesterday is gone. Learn from it. Today is yours to
steward. Every man and woman has the same
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✦ July
Customer service is simple (21 ways to make it count)
> We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It’s
our job
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✦ July
Marketing Is inclusive
> What helps people, helps business. ~ Leo Burnett
My friend Chris [http://twitter.com/blueskybyway] passed along the article, Top
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✦ June
Casting Bigger Shadows
> Does your brand, company, or organization cast a big enough shadow?
A few weeks ago I passed time, the
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✦ June
Reading to lead
I’ve never met a leader that isn’t a reader. Reading
[https://davidhorne.me/down-the-path-of-self-discovery/] is an incredible way
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✦ June
Movie Lessons: Design & Thinking
I was pumped when my friend Rebecca [https://twitter.com/#!/cochrancreates]
invited me to a screening of Design & Thinking
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✦ May
Stop getting lost in your work: a work in progress
Too many people are getting lost in the work.
And I don’t mean this work [http://www.stevenpressfield.com/
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✦ May
Learn how to build your platform from Michael Hyatt
> To all the authors, artists, and creatives I’ve met through the years who have
been turned away because
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✦ May
Are you building something useful?
Be useful and be brilliant
Utility is one thing companies better think about as they work to connect with
their
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✦ May
Feed the relationship and you feed the business
> This business (marketing) is not about selling stuff. This business is about
creating strong, provocative relationships between good companies
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✦ May
Building three-cord connections
A cord of three strands is not easily broken
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about how we develop
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✦ April
Movie Lessons: Shakespeare and Henry V.
> We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood
with me shall
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✦ April
Make life count
Do more. Make it count.
Please take a look at this video. It will inspire and challenge you.
If you
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✦ April
10 podcasts that will feed your brain
Over the last few years I have become a big fan of listening to podcasts. In
fact, there are a
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✦ April
What you can learn from the masters
> The winner of The Masters doesn’t just win a major. He becomes a part of the
history of
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✦ March
Lessons in entrepreneurship from Ben Chestnut & Mailchimp
One of the freshest companies out there now is MailChimp [http://mailchimp.com].
I recommend their product quite often and
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✦ March
Movie Lessons: The Incredibles
>
“You sly dog, you got me monologuing”
Today’s movie lesson comes from “The Incredibles
[http://www.imdb.com/
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✦ March
The secret to creating better value propositions
Business models are largely driven by one or a set of key value
propositions. Your unique value proposition (UVP) is
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✦ March
Don't miss the concept
I love to concept. It is one of my favorite things to do professionally. You
know, taking an idea and
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✦ March
Two things that will always win and keep customers
It sure is easy to complicate things. I do it all the time.
Two simple things you can do to
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✦ February
Three things everyday
There are three things I do everyday for my business, regardless of what else is
happening. These things are in