Recently I participated in our semi-annual peer group meetings in Cooperstown, New York. What a great place to get away! Not only is it a cool town with a world class resort, The Otesaga, but the trees and scenery were spectacular.
These sessions with my peers have proven to be invaluable over the years [...]
I recently attended BOLO2009 in Scottsdale, AZ, a digital media conference for small-to-mid sized, independently minded agencies, focusing on search, social, mobile, & email advertising. There, I spent two and a half days (plus several late nights) focused on digital marketing: where it’s at, and where it’s headed. As the Interactive Director here [...]
A year ago, I created a Facebook fan page for Art Lark. You may not know him, but to my family, he’s a star. He’s our favorite Walt Disney World employee (or in Walt Disney World lingo, our favorite cast member), and we know him as “Art the Greeter”, who graced the entryway [...]
The groundwork for business deals is often made not in a conference room, but in a social setting (frequently, that’s out on the golf course). The simple reason is that this non-business interaction allows people to establish a non-business relationship, which carries over into business.
In fact, Cliff and I were talking about this recently. [...]
My retirement-aged Mom (she’d kill me for giving an age in years) stopped in McDonald’s for a quick lunch the other day. Knowing she moves slowly these days, Mom held the door to allow a much younger and faster-moving person (a “girl in her 20s”) to go in ahead. This was Mom’s good [...]
Do you have a company Christmas party? Do you do things like “casual Friday”? How about company picnics? None of these directly boost the bottom line. In fact, most of them have an associated cost. Yet we can all appreciate the impact that these can have on company morale. [...]