It’s always about this time of the year I start thinking about the next year. What do I want to accomplish? What’s most important to me? To my family? How do I prioritize everything I want to do? What’s the best way to accomplish these things? It can be overwhelming. I mean, let’s be honest…it’s […]
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My son Joshua recently turned 18 and is now formally applying to colleges and universities. He used the Common App to make that happen. If you’re not familiar with the Common App, it’s a little miracle for applying to college. Instead of filling out separate applications to all the places in which you want to
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I love my newsletter subscribers. Let me give you an example of why. I first met subscriber Rob Ristagno in 2016 at a Niche Media event. We’ve chatted a couple times on the phone since then, but I hear from Rob mostly when he responds to my newsletter. Last week I mentioned something in Random
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One of my first custom publishing sales calls happened when visiting Carrier Corporation, the HVAC manufacturer, in Syracuse, New York (Summer, 2001). I was pitching them on a special 100th Anniversary Issue to commemorate 100 years since Willis Carrier invented the air conditioner. They executed on the idea, but didn’t use us for the services.
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Annual LCA Golf Outing…regular shenanigans with my three best friends (taken September 7, 2019) Part of my Content Marketing World 2019 keynote focused on the end of social media as we know it (here are the slides if you are interested…this particular section starts at slide 57). I’m pretty much obsessed with the concept.
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