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Put Down Your Crayons
"...any designer concentrated principally on visuals faces a grim forecast."
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How You Win
We like fantasies. Success, however, has little to do with dreams or luck.
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Online in its entirety & free
A year ago, I started to give away my book online, one chapter at a time. Today, it's available online in its entirety.
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Ten (Digital) Marketing Stories
A series of hypothetical situations in which social media might be applied. No silver bullets here, just some thinking.
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...but I fuck up a whole lot more than I get things right.
These are the things I have been thinking... collected. Who knows? Perhaps you'll get something out of them.
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Making it work...
Thoughts on putting social media into practice; a free excerpt from Speak Human. (Possibly a good read for some of your clients.)
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How to “Rock” Your Next Talk
Everything I've learned about giving presentations, in one (rather long) blog post.
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Lost in Translation?
From English to Portuguese and back again: a talk about sustainability and other things.
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To Self-Publish or Not to Self-Publish
A number of folks have asked me about my experience with self-publishing. Here's what I've learned and why traditional isn't dead.
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Visual Sissies
It’s not like it’s a silhouette of Mother Teresa performing fellatio on the devil or anything.
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Rethinking Stuff
A long piece, contemplating how we look at things, and if there might be better ways.
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Vomit serves up virus at buffet (and other stories)...
Although it contains a few examples, I've always found the "vomit" story rather entertaining.
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Don't Do Another Three-Way
On the topic of how many concepts we should really provide to our clients.
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Use Donuts?
We've all grown sick of phony ads and gimmicks. Perhaps a little "flirting" (with donuts) is in order?
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Contemplating an Artisan Economy
Is competing on price at the root of many of our problems?
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Steve Jobs and the Star-On Machine
Anyone else think they have a few iPhone 4s stacked up in the warehouse?
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The perils of "Musical Chairs" marketing
While many are desperate to do something "out of the box," perhaps we'd be better off to examine what we really remember.
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Laziness, greed, and stupidity
We should be very, very angry. We should be rising up, grabbing our chairs, and lobbing them at these groups...
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Do They Love You?
It's easy to use words like "relationship" when it comes to our companies, but it's largely bullshit.
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Apple Pie isn't American
Our ideas surrounding authenticity are curious ones that need to be considered carefully as we grow our brands.