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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
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✦ 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
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✦ 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
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✦ 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
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✦ 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
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✦ 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:
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✦ 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
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✦ 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
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✦ November
How to get unstuck
> If you’re stuck in a rut, give yourself a 30 day challenge.
Sometimes we get stuck. This happens
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✦ 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/