Thank You

This is the season of gratitude, reflection, and thanks. Here is what I have to say to you: Thank you for visiting my corner of the Internet.  It’s a jumbly, noisy place, and I don’t take your attention for granted. Thanks for taking time to learn more about how people work.  My goal in writing this…

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Don’t Look At Facebook Again Until You Understand This Principle

Today is more of a personal post – for me and for you. Let’s have a chat. When I was a child, I had some really cool friends at school.  They lived in newer houses, took vacations to Yellowstone, Disneyland, and Hawaii (the “cool” destinations when you grow up in Idaho).  They even had brand new…

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The Nine Words That Should Not Appear On Your Blog. Anywhere.

Meet Angry Jenika: (Why yes, that is me wearing a shower cap covered in shaving cream.  I have no explanation other than:  Such things happen when you hang out with Kristen Kalp.) Not many people ever meet Angry Jenika – but you know what the quickest way to meet her is? To blog (or facebook,…

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Eye of the Storm

I’m aware that I’ve been slower than normal at getting posts up this July.  This is partially because of a two-week road trip I took, but I can’t blame that really (I wrote the Van Gogh post from the beach).  Blogging is as much playtime for me as any vacation activity I can think of. …

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Competition, Pricing, and The Sony “Mistake”

Can we, as an industry, pause a moment and take a deep breath? Ahhhhh. Okay.  Straight talk coming your way today, fair warning. I submit that as a profession, we: 1) Spend far too much time thinking about how our competition is pricing their work, 2) Misunderstand who our competition actually is, and 3) Waste…

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