2012 Entries
✦ February
Put down the shiny object
> Don’t do it! Everything will be ok. Please put down the shiny object.
I’ve been working with
Archives, Notes, etc.
2012 Entries
✦ February
How watching Super Bowl ads will make you a better marketer
Each year I watch the Super Bowl’s advertisements and think about all the time
and money invested into 30
2012 Entries
✦ February
How I use Gmail for business
My marketing consultancy and digital agency both run Google Apps and Gmail. I
love it’s flexibility and ease of
2012 Entries
✦ January
Movie Lessons: 500 Days Of Summer
Not only does 500 days of summer have a killer soundtrack, it also teaches us a
pretty good lesson about
2012 Entries
✦ January
Your best year ever
Make this year count.
There is a lot of talk this time of year about goals, resolutions, and change
[https:
2011 Entries
✦ December
Entrepreneurs's Breakfast: Business Wisdom From Successful Bootstrappers
Success is a planned event.
Recently, I ventured over to Raleigh to learn from a few of NC’s successful
2011 Entries
✦ December
Social media is s magnifying glass
> Social Media doesn’t cause problems or make something great. It simple magnifies
what is already there.
Sometimes I
2011 Entries
✦ November
How to get unstuck
> If you’re stuck in a rut, give yourself a 30 day challenge.
Sometimes we get stuck. This happens
2011 Entries
✦ November
On Spin Sucks: Building an incredible brand
Recently, I wrote about how to build an incredible brand
[http://spinsucks.com/marketing/three_steps_to_an_incredible_bran/
2011 Entries
✦ November
The secret to never going stale in business and life
> We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re
curious and curiosity keeps leading
2011 Entries
✦ November
Seven secrets to great social networking (online and off)
Networking these days is all about who you know and who knows you. The strength
of your business is in
2011 Entries
✦ November
A million ways
There are a million different ways to do anything. This goes for marketing,
leadership, social media, parenting, managing, etc. Too
2011 Entries
✦ October
Focus intensely
Focus intensely on making the best product (and most useful) you can now
[https://davidhorne.me/current-thing-next-thing/]. You can figure
2011 Entries
✦ October
Make your dreams come true
> The world doesn’t need more dreamers. It needs more people willing to make their
dreams come true.
Last
2011 Entries
✦ October
Movie Lesson: "Pause Press Play" shows us everything has changed
httpv://youtu.be/MterbpYTyjM
If you can’t see the video, click [here].
> everything has changed.
Today’s movie
2011 Entries
✦ October
What's your weird?
Have you read We Are All Weird by Seth Godin from The Domino Project? If not,
you should because:
Positioning
2011 Entries
✦ September
Peasants, partners & prima donna's
Recently, I’ve had several conversations about the relationships between an
organization or brand, and its marketing firm or ad
2011 Entries
✦ September
ConvergeSouth 2011 Five Questions: Lauren Polinsky
This post is part of ourConvergeSouth Conference [http://convergesouth.com/]
series.Today’s five questions are with Lauren Polinsky.If
2011 Entries
✦ September
The three "can nots" of successful content marketing
Sometimes success is knowing what not to do
We talk a lot about the keys, pillars, principles, secrets, and lessons
2011 Entries
✦ September
ConvergeSouth 2011 Five Questions: Kristen Daukas
This post is part of ourConvergeSouth Conference [http://convergesouth.com/]
series.Today’s five questions are with Kristen Daukus.If
2011 Entries
✦ September
Five ways to make anyone like you (and not just on Facebook)
Every one of us craves to be liked. We also enjoy being around people we like.
These are the folks
2011 Entries
✦ September
ConvergeSouth 2011 Five Questions: Phil Buckley
This post is part of our ConvergeSouth Conference [http://convergesouth.com]
series.Today’s five questions are with Phil Buckley.
2011 Entries
✦ September
ConvergeSouth 2011 Five Questions: Brandon Burke
This post is part of our ConvergeSouth series.Today’s five questions are with
Brandon Burke.If you haven’t
2011 Entries
✦ August
The deadly d's of branding
A few weeks ago we talked about simple branding
[https://davidhorne.me/simple-branding-in-three-steps/]. Today our focus is on
the “Deadly
2011 Entries
✦ August
ConvergeSouth 2011 Five Questions: Kate Morris
This post is part of our ConvergeSouth series.Today’s five questions are with
Kate Morris.If you haven’t
2011 Entries
✦ August
Five steps to better results in business (and life)
Everybody wants to get better results
Who doesn’t want to see more fruit on the tree from the seeds
2011 Entries
✦ August
ConvergeSouth 2011 Five Questions: Jeff SanGeorge
This post is part of our Converge South series. Last week we metSue & Rob
[https://davidhorne.me/convergesouth-meet-leaders-sue-mark-rob/]. Today’
2011 Entries
✦ August
Simple branding in three steps
Let’s talk about simple branding. It is easy to make business complex these
days. All of the technologies and
2011 Entries
✦ August
ConvergeSouth 2011 Leaders: Five Questions With Sue & Rob
> I have the fortune of serving on the board of directors forConvergeSouth
[http://convergesouth.com]. On October 6-7 in
2011 Entries
✦ August
On The Magnetic Ideas Blog: B2B content marketing challenges
Recently on theMagnetic Ideas blogI wrote about content marketing for B2B
companies [http://www.magnetic-ideas.com/blog/content-marketing-challenges/]. It
wasn’
2011 Entries
✦ August
Movie Lessons: The Three Amigos remind us to give water to the thirsty
Give thirsty customers water. In today’s movie lesson, The Three Amigos
[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092086/](I’m
2011 Entries
✦ July
The current thing and the next thing
Promote the current thing
[http://geofflivingston.com/2011/07/27/the-punish-geoff-fundraiser/] and the
next thing, but never more than that.