Professional Development
How I'm Building A Successful Remote Workplace
WATCH LISTEN READ I recently asked my good friend QuHarrison Terry, head of growth marketing at Mark Cuban Companies, and co-founder of the amazing content creation company Inevitable/Human, what he thought I could do to improve my overall content strategy. Being familiar with my love for being a practitioner in the technology space, and teaching…
Read MoreSave The Date: 8.7.2020 – Nashville Voice Conference – Why Businesses Need Voice
WATCH READ “There’s a progression happening now where it went from ‘you had to have a website, then you had to have some engagement, blogs and things like that, and then all the way to an instagram presence, a video presence; and now we’re seeing the next generation of that, as podcasting becomes a billion…
Read MoreWhy Voice Makes Sense For Start Ups and Entrepreneurs
WATCH READ I recently talked about Voice and other topics with Brynn Plummer, VP of Community Relations and Inclusion at Nashville Entrepreneur Center. Here is some of the great knowledge she dropped. “I don’t think I realized that this isn’t like some abstract future state technology or adoption that we will move to in 10-20s,…
Read MoreHow Entrepreneurs Can Find The Right Resources – With Brynn Plummer of Nashville Entrepreneur Center
WATCH LISTEN READ I sat down for an awesome podcast interview with my good friend Brynn Plummer, VP of Community Relations and Inclusion at the Nashville Entrepreneur Center. We had a great conversation about Voice Technology, and how businesses will be expected to have Alexa Skills and Google Actions in the next 24-36 months. We…
Read MoreHouse Hunters International Full Episode: The Hickeys Move To Valencia, Spain
WATCH READ In the daily grind of our work lives, it’s important to have some reflections about how things have gone for us over the past year. I do this exercise often, to calibrate a few different things. Number 1, to remind myself about “macro-patience and micro-speed” – two seemingly conflicting concepts, but when married…
Read MoreDoing What You Said You Were Going To Do. Example: Nashville Voice Conference and Ask Data Driven Design
WATCH READ Those of you that know me, know that I don’t talk politics. I’m not a history buff, and I don’t have reflections on how other people live their lives. In fact, I rarely open my mouth about anything I don’t know a lot about. It’s just how I’m wired, so that’s not…
Read MoreWTF GOOGLE? Changes To Google Groups – What Does This Mean? Data Driven Daily Tip 267
WATCH LISTEN READ WTF Google? You’re changing Google Groups? What’s with these emails you keep sending to Small Business Owners about changes to GSuite? Our clients have asked several times for clarification on what these messages mean and what they need to do. So I’m breaking it down in this video. What do these changes…
Read MoreSmall Business Productivity Tip: How To Find GSuite "Revisions" – Data Driven Daily Tip 266
WATCH LISTEN READ Have you ever been working in a Google Doc, Google Sheet, or Google Slide, maybe collaborating with another co-worker, and changes were made to your document that you didn’t want to have happen? The document autosaved and you can’t go back! Oh No! This video shows you the revisions feature in all…
Read More365 Days of Web Design, Digital Marketing and Business Blogs
READ You are reading my 366th blog in the last 365 days (also my 439th blog in the last 540 days). After starting to blog consistently on 7/7/17, I decided heading into 2018 that I wanted my New Year’s Resolution to be to blog every day for a year. For some reason, I decided to…
Read MoreTime Management Best Practices For Small Business Owners
READ The relentless pursuit of productivity. As a businessperson, It’s really what I think about constantly. It’s really what drives me. We’re a client services company, which means we’re a productivity company. Which means, as the owner of the company, I have to set the bar for productivity and time management. As such, I’m documenting…
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