Position PapersBelief, Opportunity, CapacityWhat leads to business success? If you’ve ever gone back to your high school reunion, you’ve probably seen some surprise success stories and scratched your head while asking the same question. For small marketing firms, success typically follows one of two paths. More > |
BlogUsing Tweriod to Analyze Your Twitter AccountThere are thousands of tools for social media, and only a few dozen that strike me as useful. One of those is Tweriod, which analyzes your Twitter account, including when followers are most likely to interact with you, and thus when you should post. Best of all, it will auto-populate your account at Buffer, building the schedule for each of your accounts accordingly. Click to download a 9-page PDF of the data from my account to illustrate what you'll see. More >Reconsidering A Relationship with MoneyI don't think I've ever posted a blog entry this long, but if you read it like I did, you'll forget about time and be so engaged that you read it all. It's from a friend (Schuyler Brown) who consults out of NYC. She graciously allowed me to publish this. More about her work at the end. Broadly, the subject of this is money and life, and based on the questions I've been getting recently, many of you are thinking about just that. __________________________________________________ Like many Americans post-recession, I've been taking a close look at my relationship to money. To my surprise, what started simply as a responsible exercise turned into a deeply instructive philosophical journey. I'd been ignoring the task of addressing my ideas about money for years, hiding behind an image of myself as Bohemian, an artist, a spiritual aspirant. Money seemed something too concrete to factor into my flights of fancy. Even as an entrepreneur I never stopped to think much about money. I worried when I wasn't making it and was jubilant when I was...it was a roller coaster. It was my daughter's birth two years ago that unexpectedly initiated a shift in my approach to money, because she shifted my entire perspective on the future. Her presence forced me to imagine a future I'd been happy to leave to chance. One day, exiting the subway on my way home, I caught myself with a furrowed brow worrying once again about the numbers in our bank accounts...this time with no regard for my own needs, but for hers alone. I heard a steely voice of resolve somewhere deep inside say, "I never want her to suffer the burden of financial strain." At that moment, I felt my actual walk change. I became more directed. But it wasn't until an incident this summer.... More > |
Speaking Events10th Annual New Business SummitThis is our largest yearly seminar, held in Nashville, TN at the Frist Center for the Arts. All new breakouts, networking opportunities, and new price with special offer for additional staff from your firm. Join 100 other firms in this annual tradition of starting the year off right with your positioning, marketing, and selling. TEDx Nashville: Success from the Inside Out--Alignment & Engagement"Branding" has failed. "Storytelling" will fail. In addition to the success your own efforts will contribute, those you gather around you in the early stages...and the later stages will have to be aligned (by being engaged) with your vision as the leader if you don't want to fail in the NEXT steps, too. And you can't do enough marketing to buy yourself a different solution. How do you determine who is in this group and who isn't? What is the NEXT step when you have this information? AIGA Brand Academy (Emory Executive Education @ Goizueta Business School)Brand Academy--created by AIGA/Atlanta and Emory Executive Education at Goizueta Business School--is a 2.5-day executive education program designed exclusively to give creative professionals a thorough understanding of brand management from a leadership perspective and to strengthen the connection between design and business strategy. Featured speakers include:
AIGA and partner Emory Executive Education tailored Brand Academy’s unique curriculum to give creative leaders a comprehensive understanding of branding from a business executive’s perspective. More information here. Books
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