Content Marketing World 2019 Speaker Party (taken September 3, 2019) Last week was the 9th Annual Content Marketing World, held again in my home city Cleveland, Ohio. It’s hard not to get nostalgic about the event. Almost 4,000 attend this event every year, coming from well over 60 different countries (as well as every […]
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Not surprisingly, Greenland has been the subject of many conversations this week. It seems everyone has an opinion on the matter. In my reading, I was surprised to find out that purchasing a sovereign territory was rather commonplace before World War I. The last occurrence came in 1917 when the US Virgin Islands were purchased from
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The last two weeks I’ve spent 40 hours working on my keynote for Content Marketing World (September 3-6 in Cleveland). It’s the opening keynote, and I have 30 minutes to give the audience of four thousand something of value. The good news? The initial draft PowerPoint is complete. The bad news? I have 97 slides and the
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A few weeks back I read The Algebra of Happiness by Scott Galloway. It’s a good book. I recommend it, but if you’re skeptical, just listen to this one-hour podcast interview with Scott on the James Altucher show. Here are just a few things that I found interesting: Scott says that telling kids to follow their passion as career
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In 1997 Apple, the company, was floundering. Losing billions and lacking any clear direction, the once high-flying stock sunk (on a split-adjusted basis) below a dollar per share. Every analyst left Apple for dead. In July of that year, Apple fired their CEO and named Steve Jobs (recently back with the company after Apple acquired NeXT) interim
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