Business
Time 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…
Read MoreMarketers: Do You Really Know Your Target Audience?
READ This isn’t a “how to” blog. This is a straight up “tell you what to do” blog. Marketers (and when I say “marketers” I’m referring to everyone from Small Business Owners to CMOs – you need to KNOW your target audience. I’m not saying “understand” or “analyze and synthesize their every movement” and “use…
Read MoreFor Small Business Owners: Focus Is Everything, And The Hardest Thing
READ This one is for the people out there that I can relate to the most. This one is for the small business owners. Focus is everything, and it’s the hardest thing. There is so much you are responsible for. There is so much you could be doing. I get it. This is why I’m…
Read MoreTrying Desperately Not To Repeat My Own Mistakes
READ I had a vivid dream one night last week where I was interviewing a prospective employee, things were going well. He was down to the final round of interviews with myself and some co-workers at Data Driven Design. I remember, I loved him. I thought, “this is it! This guy is going to come…
Read MoreHow Has Your First Internship Prepared You For Your Current Role?
READ On Thanksgiving 2018, I received a text from a great friend of mine (I’ve know him since middle school and high school basketball), asking me about my first internship with the Detroit Pistons and how it’s helped me in my current role as a business owner, entrepreneur and strategist. He’s a super hard worker,…
Read MoreWhy Have I Chosen Our Company To Be Defined By Data?
READ One of my amazingly talented co-workers recently asked me a great question. He phrased it “Why have we chosen to be defined by data?” The context is that we’re preparing for an upcoming presentation called “Designing With Data” at a community event in Nashville called Nashville Design Week. The reasons we’ve chosen to be defined…
Read MoreBuilding A Digital Strategy Business: What Happened After We Decided To Stop Whitelabeling Our Services?
WATCH READ Building a digital strategy business that focuses on using data to design websites, digital marketing strategies, content marketing now custom software has been an amazing journey as we head into year three at Data Driven Design. When I first started the company, it was just me, as the business development, operations and project…
Read MoreClearly You Love What You're Doing. Otherwise, Well…You Wouldn't Be Doing It, Right?
WATCH READ Real talk, I’ve been working really hard since I was about 15 years old. That’s when I first realized I could make money as a turntableist / (DJ), spinning records. Yep, spinning hip-hop records at parties. I invested in my own set-up, as a high school junior, I bought turntables, a mixer,…
Read MoreExecutives & Small Business Owners: You Can Be Your Own Designer
WATCH READ Executives, CEOs, CMOs, VPs of Marketing and Small Business Owners, I’ve prepared this video for you to see how to create nice imagery to post on Instagram and Facebook. I know what you’re thinking (I don’t have time to do this). But, you agree that you need to be creating content every day,…
Read MoreExecutives & Small Business Owners: You Need To Blog Every Day. Here's How (Data Driven Daily Tip 203)
WATCH LISTEN READ Attention Executives and Small Business Owners: Blogging Every Day for Your Business should be like brushing your teeth. Seriously. When you were a kid, you were scared of brushing your teeth, and you hated it, and let’s be honest, that’s how most of you feel about creating and publishing business content every…
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