This has been the year of Arcade Fire for me thus far.  Although I’ve had an album of theirs for sometime, it was early this year that they became a mainstay in my playlist…and for good reason.  They are very much one of the better bands playing today.  Their new album came out a few [...]

This has been happening since last year, when Domino’s apologized for their pizza not being up to par.  It worked.
Companies today are embracing a lot of things about transparency, and shunning quite a few others.  I’m not a believer in EVERYTHING being transparent about your business.  For instance, letting people know your margins and contributions [...]

I pointed out the other day that it’s a good idea to write out your morals for life and put them somewhere you can see them every day.  This is not only a good thing for you, but potentially for others as well.  Letting people know how you feel regarding work and daily life is [...]

A lot of people would think this far, far too simple, but what if you took your marketing department (that includes everyone who is selling, which means basically everyone in the company) and bifurcated it.
Take the first group of people and say your job is to make sure we never lose a customer, ever.  If [...]

I have done a very poor job of tracking music lately.  Here’s a list of some of the stuff I’ve been digging lately:
Frightened Rabbit:  Winter of Mixed Drinks
Titus Andronicus:  Monitor
Mumford & Sons:  Sigh No More
Port Obrien:  Threadbare
NOFX:  Coaster

I just read up on the Gizmodo and Engadget liveblogs of the Apple OS4 event today.  This entire event was a reinforcement of what has become incredibly clear to me in the last few years; Apple, above all others, is the best marketing company in the entire world.  They are absolutely masterful in creating products [...]

Here’s a link for the newest Trendwatching article on “Brand Butlers,” it’s good.  It touches on what a lot of marketers are looking at today, being more than a product or a sales pitch, but integrating valuable information and services tailored to a customer’s core use of their brand.
It’s time that people within companies really [...]

Laughter is incredibly underrated.  This coming from someone who is somewhat reserved.
When I was younger, I had a friend who always openly laughed at anything he found to be funny.  It never mattered.  That laughter always put people at ease around him.  People naturally gravitated toward him as a friend and someone they wanted to [...]

If you were forced to distill all of your positive and negative points into where you picked up those traits, could you do it?  People with high emotional intelligence tend to be able to remember who made them a certain way; they have an ability to recognize their own patterns and when they change or [...]

My semester is pretty light this semester.  I have three night classes and my earliest class is once a week at 10am.  Next in line is a 3:45 class.  That is all over in two months when I’m down to three classes.  Compared to my first three semesters of biz school, that’s easy street.
So why [...]