How’d I Do
When your kids are growing up, they are constantly looking for approval. “How’d I do – did I do it all right mom/dad?” From the first moments, of forming words – when they can’t even ask you that question – Read More …
Category: branding
It’s the Other Way Around
So, after all of the efforts in putting together yesterday’s post. It came to mind that I might have been wrong. Hey, no one said I was right all the time…certainly not me. So, yea, I think it’s the other Read More …
Marketing Is Life
Even if you are the most cynical person, who hates advertising, marketing is life altering – in so many good ways. We all market ourselves… When we start making friends. When we want to impress our teachers. When we want Read More …
Market Opportunity
There is a lot of market opportunity…at least from one person’s perspective. In the last week, shopping in four different major “super” markets and not one is better than the other. Wishing that someone else would see the same market Read More …
Highly Anticipated
Many things in the “marketing” media are pushed as being so wonderful, so amazing and so…needed. They just are…highly anticipated. pre-sold pre-ordered pre-viewed Some with more fan fervor than others… From the summer blockbuster to summer stock performances and the Read More …
Favorite Jam
Our favorite jam varies, depending on our mood. Fig (with our favorite Italian Cheeses) Grape (homemade from the ones that grow over our fence…also Italian) Strawberry (hand-picked berries by our sweetest niece and nephew) Chili apricot (hot and spicy and Read More …
More of a Request
In many cases, I have to wonder if the signs are more of a request than a rule? They all sound so negative… No Smoking. No Skateboarding. No Biking. No Dogs on the Beach. No Shirt. No Shoes. No Service. Read More …
Funding Requests
It is absolutely guaranteed that as a business owner, in a local community, you will be asked to review many, many funding requests. It’s a given. What you do with them, is obviously your choice. The children, the parents and Read More …
Too Many Requests
It is possible to have too many requests, even little ones, that you can’t remember the things you agreed to do in the beginning? I messed up the drive thru order today. Well, maybe. You decide. Here’s the back story. Read More …
Gonna Need A Bigger Boat
Famous words spoken in that famous movie: “You’re gonna need a bigger boat.” Sure, it’s recognizable. It is the top 3rd of all time 100 movie quotes. The 3rd most famous. It’s summer and countless people are at the beach. Read More …