Business Cards for People with Multiple Hats
Monday, November 9th, 2009 Posted in Business & Marketing, Company News | 2 Comments »I mentioned earlier today that I ordered new business cards. Several folks asked to see them, so here they are. The front covers the basic Monkey Outta Nowhere info and the red monkey will actually be applied by hand with a ...
We Like Easy Causes
Friday, October 30th, 2009 Posted in Business & Marketing, Society | 1 Comment »At Cultivate earlier this week Clint Runge of Archrival marketing made a statement about the ease of causes. He was talking about generational marketing and the differences between Generation X and Generation Y. While general principles and trends may be ...
Putting Dora’s Mexican Restaurant Online
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 Posted in Business & Marketing, Twin Cities | No Comments »Deciding what to make for dinner is always a little tough in my house because when I look out my kitchen window I can see Dora's Mexican Restaurant (formerly Los Cabos; new name, same folks). So tempting. It's the first ...
The Reason Why People Think Marketing is Evil
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009 Posted in Business & Marketing | 5 Comments »I saw two commercials lately that were so over-the-top awful I couldn't help but blog about them several days later (if I manage to come back to something days later to blog about, it must have dug into my brain). ...
Nothing is a Secret
Saturday, February 28th, 2009 Posted in Business & Marketing, Internet | No Comments »There are no secrets in the Internet age. Everything you've ever done can come to the glaring light of day. That can either be a blessing or a curse. Marketing guru Seth Godin describes a friend who googled the applicants for a ...
Networking Works: Sitting Around in PJs & Applying Online Doesn’t
Thursday, February 26th, 2009 Posted in Business & Marketing | No Comments »CNN has a great story of a guy who found a job through his church. Michel Butler was an unemployed husband and father of 3. His industry tanked and he had to find a new job. He joined a career ...
Jim Collins: Get Used to Economic Turmoil
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 Posted in Business & Marketing | 1 Comment »Jim Collins, the renowned business author of Good to Great and Built to Last talked with Fortune magazine last month about the current economic crisis. He claimed that 1952-2000 was an aberation of stability that brought unprecedented economic prosperity. He ...
You Have To Be Obsessive To Be Successful
Friday, February 6th, 2009 Posted in Business & Marketing, Introspection | No Comments »I've been reminded lately that in order to be successful you have to be a little obsessive. There are examples like Thomas Edison's 10,000 failed prototypes for the light bulb (according to the legend) or this story of a family ...
20 Minutes at a Time
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 Posted in Business & Marketing, Writing | No Comments »Earlier this week I read an article by Cory Doctorow (of Boing Boing fame) about how he's able to be a productive writer in an age of distraction. It's definitely a worthy question. In some ways I've answered that question ...
Seth Godin Defines Blogging: Drip, Drip, Drip
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008 Posted in Blogging, Business & Marketing | No Comments »I love how Seth Godin explains blogging in this little nugget from an interview earlier this year: "Blogging lets you drip ideas, bit by bit, to people who want to hear them. There are two crucial ideas in that sentence, so ...
