Uncommon uses for business cards

Business cards are often the first piece of marketing or branding collateral purchased by businesses of all sizes. Many times we think of these cards as a way to trade pertinent contact information and make a great first impression on clients, peers or prospects. This image from the creative team at Vistaprint showcase some additional…

Blogging in your underwear

This post contains video, click here if you are having trouble viewing. I am a huge fan of Hugh MacLeod in both of his mediums. On one hand, I’ve got a few prints up of his (including the one below) and on the other, I love his writing style. So when I heard that book…

Facebook’s problem, Comcast charging more $ & QR Guinness

Hopefully this week’s edition of Five for Friday makes it through your clutter in all of this social space on the day of Facebook’s soon-to-be historic IPO. I wish nothing but the best to friends Megan and Xenia over there, enjoy the day ladies. While many folks will be reading story after story about the…

Twitter should be illegal … says Mike Francesa

This post contains video, click here if you are having trouble viewing. Earlier this week WFAN’s Mike Francesa had an awesome rant on Twitter. Some of the top sound bites include Twitter should be illegal, one of these days someone will monetize it and Twitter cuts the middle man out of sports journalism.

Are you marketing in the round?

This post contains video, click here if you are having trouble viewing. When I heard that friends Gini Dietrich and Geoff Livingston were writing a book together, I was happy for them. Throughout the process, I knew that Marketing in the Round would be good, but did not think that it was going to be something…

Is your marketing smarter than a 4-year old?

This post contains video, click here if you are having trouble viewing. At the end of last week I heard my boss, Jason Keith, laughing hysterically at his desk. When I asked him what was so funny, he passed me the video above. It took me a while to get around to watching it, but…

You can’t do THAT on Facebook, social media champs and Twitter punishment

This week flew by and flat out blew. I spent six hours on Wednesday with the good folks at Children’s Hospital Boston as they helped Megatron get re-hydrated from the nasty stomach bug that seems to be making its rounds only to be followed by giving him bottle after bottle of Pedialyte to get rehydrated. Hope your…

What’s your story?

What’s your story? It is probably a phrase that you have heard dozens if not hundreds of times over the course of the past few months. Hell you have probably uttered it to people you’ve met as well. Question is, do you really think about what your story is? You don’t have to answer that…

Catching the Storytelling Animal

This post contains video, click here if you are having trouble viewing. Reading is something that I have enjoyed since my childhood. So when I heard about Jonathan Gottschall’s The Storytelling Animal, I was intrigued and very thankful that Houghton Mifflin Harcourt sent me a copy to review. The book deconstructs stories and looks at…