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3 Thoughts On Brand Development

Since I’ve moved to DC, I’ve been out selling myself to people in a way that I haven’t had to since I moved to NYC about 10 years ago. Which has been both good and bad. Good in the idea that by forcing myself to look back at my accomplishments I have been able to […]

A Few Things On A Saturday Night

Here are a few things that I want to share with you on a Saturday night. I just moved to DC. My family really likes it and I am looking at it as a good way to reinvent myself again. With that in mind, I just finished a really great book, Get a Job Fast!. The […]

Better? Isn’t It?

I overhead a conversation this afternoon between two people that were putting on an event for a national organization. The gist of the story was one person was amazed and happy that the tickets had been selling so well that they were sold out. The other man, a superior, I think, asked the question….“That’s better […]

A New Experiment In Content Delivery

If you’ve been a radio junky like me since you can remember being able to reach the dial. (I vividly remember tuning in to listen to the Atlanta Braves led by Dale Murphy play an afternoon game against the Chicago Cubs with Andre Dawson.) You have a few thoughts on the current state of radio […]

Some Fun Facts To Take You Into The Weekend

This isn’t a fully formed post, but more a few ideas and thoughts that I just wanted to pull together really quickly, since I have been a little negligent in posting the last week or so… #1. You are most susceptible to marketing messages in early in the morning, before your brain has gathered its […]

5 Words Or Phrases That Are Totally BS…

Don’t let the headline fool you… These 5 words and phrases are totally BS, but they are great marketing because they get people to believe them. 1. “job creators”: Republicans rolled this one out sometime around 2010. Its a way to give cover to high income people that they are protecting from tax increases. 2. […]

Another Conversation We Should (And Are Beginning To Have)

A few weeks back, Seth Godin released a manifesto on education in America called Stop Stealing Dreams (Here’s a link to an audio recording of the book, read by yours truly.) This manifesto was cool because you could see how quickly and effectively an idea catches on around the Internet. Plus, it was on a topic […]