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Hanging around the virtual street corner

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Talk to people how they want to be talked to

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Getting People to Pull the Trigger

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KBIS® Report

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Who’s on first when it’s about strategy?

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The problem with big projects… well, kinda…

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Brands in crisis

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The Age of Content

When designers told us in a recent piece of research we [...]

Comfort food

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Where’s the Fire (Crisis)?

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Solve the Working Problem in a Virus-Infected World with Hustle

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49 Tweets into the future

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What are we talking about?

Acceleration in business, while necessary, causes extreme [...]

Why You Should Shoot Messengers

A very respected ex-CFO friend of mine forwards a lot of [...]

Bank shots in business

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“I Just Throw Them in a Box”

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How Much Data Can You Eat?

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Branding goes South (or How making silly decisions can hurt you)

Branding consultants can be dangerous – especially the [...]

The truth about native advertising

Is advertising content? The short answer is yes. It always [...]

Why media buying is dead

Traditionally, media buyers sought audiences where their [...]

Buying media with feelings or metrics: In Today’s World, Does It Matter?

A major publisher’s rep was sharing lunch with our [...]

Rorschach Test: Who Is Robert Redford?

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What the IBM smarter content now 2015 taught me

I was invited and went for a half day to the IBM Smarter [...]

The trade show floor

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Your Business is About to Change. Duh.

When I first read the title of the November 1, 2015 FORTUNE [...]

Do QR codes work?

One of our clients recently asked about QR codes. The [...]

Things could always be worse

I once asked a friend – a former Marine Artillery Captain [...]

ARE YOU USING A LASER OR A FLASHLIGHT TO SOLVE THAT MARKETING PROBLEM?

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SHOW ME TO THE SALES PREVENTION OFFICE

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Six lessons I learned flying to KBIS®

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