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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Taken July 6, 2019 in Cincinnati, Ohio at Arnold's (Cincy's oldest bar). Guys trip to see the Cleveland Indians play the Reds. 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. ...

Taken July 1, 2019 in Sandusky, Ohio for my father's (Tony Sr.) 80th birthday celebration. Last week, my wife Pam and I went to see the Cleveland Indians play an afternoon affair. A couple sections over I saw an old friend of mine from high school...close enough to see him but too ...