I used Keek to post a quick rant about the recent AdWeek article that says the IAB is proclaiming Firefox will hurt small businesses with their new browser. You see, their new browser blocks third-party cookies by default. Not the GOOD kind of cookies like Do-Si-Dos or Lemonades (it’s Girl Scout Cookie season, what do […]
This week’s KickStart Your Week podcast features comedian and magician Michael Kent who went from performing the occasional magic show using vacation days from his marketing job to performing full time, spending 250 days a year on the road and regularly touring 40 states. Michael provides after dinner-entertainment for dozens of high-profile corporations and has […]
My friend and fellow Gitomer Certified Speaker, Tomas Lydahl, has been doing an internet radio show in Sweden for the past few months and has successfully built an audience using the BlogTalkRadio.com format. Since Tomas also does training and speaking in the USA, he decided to do an English language version and asked me to […]
When faced with opposition to your ideas, you have three options for putting them into action: Get buy-in from the opposition By-pass the opposition Wave bye-bye to the opposition Only you can decide which route to take with any given idea (and any given individual!)
What’s all the flap about thinking outside the box? Get it? Flap. Box. …Box flap! The cliche says “thinking outside the box” is the end-all-be-all of innovative thinking. I completely disagree. It takes a lot more creativity to think INSIDE the box When you tell everyone to think outside the box, you’re basically telling them to […]
A new person I stumbled across online today via a random link is Vi Hart who describes herself as a Mathemusician (right there is a BIG clue to how creative she is.) Vi posted a video to YouTube sharing thoughts and demonstrating the possibilities of a folded-paper shape called a Hexaflexagon. If someone had tried to talk […]
Some of you readers (and most of my clients) know that I spent many years in the promotional products/advertising specialty business. In its simplest (and most under-utilized) form, ad specialties are typically inexpensive giveaways at events and tradeshows imprinted with a company logo or marketing message. At their weakest, ad specialties become part of the […]