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Knock, Knock, Knock!

When you hear that bang on the door of life, it is impor­tant to check it out. Sure there are a fair share of times when you pull the door open to find nobody on the porch, but every now and again some­thing spe­cial is wait­ing on the other side of the door. Why am […]

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2009 — The Highlight Reel

2009 was an amaz­ing year for me.  I decided I would end the year with a blog post ver­sion of my high­light reel for the year.   Life has its share of ups and downs, but I feel like I get a lot more good than bad every day.  For that I am grate­ful.  It […]

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Dead Cat Marketing

Sup­pose your busi­ness sells some­thing to a cus­tomer.  Fol­low­ing the sale, you gather no infor­ma­tion about them.  Instead you send the cus­tomer out the door and off into the uni­verse, hop­ing they will come back again some­day.  In the time that fol­lows, you make no direct or indi­rect attempt to deter­mine if the cus­tomer is […]

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Trick or Treat

With Hal­loween just one day away, Trick or Treat is def­i­nitely on the brain.  So in the spirit of the sea­son ask your­self this ques­tion.  Metaphor­i­cally speak­ing, what are you giv­ing your cus­tomers these days? Tricks or Treats?  If you are offer­ing treats, are they like those old, stale, home-made pop­corn balls or are they […]

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Summing Up SummitUp

Yes­ter­day I got to cel­e­brate my birth­day by hav­ing my very own social media con­fer­ence — Sum­mitUp.  I highly rec­om­mend this as a way to cel­e­brate your next birth­day.  (actu­ally this was purely coin­ci­dence, but a nice one none the less.)  The day was sim­ply amaz­ing.  To give you an idea of how well things […]

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SummitUp Preview Podcast — Artie Isaac

Sum­mitUp is a social media con­fab that will be held at Wright State Uni­ver­sity in Day­ton, Ohio on Octo­ber 20th, 2009.  One of the many tal­ented speak­ers who will be pre­sent­ing at the event is Artie Isaac.  Artie will deliver one of the morn­ing keynotes — speak­ing on the topic of social media and creativity. […]

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SummitUp Preview Podcast — Kevin Dugan

When it comes to social media exper­tise, Kevin Dugan is as good as it gets.  The guy is a mar­ket­ing rock star.  Kevin has TWO blogs, (Strate­gic Pub­lic Rela­tions and The Bad Pitch Blog) in the Ad Age Power 150.  He is the Direc­tor of Mar­ket­ing at Empower Media Mar­ket­ing, the orga­nizer of the Cincy […]

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