Leadership
How I Became An Entrepreneur And Technology Pioneer With Lily Clayton Hansen
WATCH READ Lily Clayton Hansen was nice enough to attend one of my speaking appearances in 2019 on Designing For Voice (Alexa and Google Assistant). Based on her attendance there, she wanted to interview me on her podcast. This is the edited version from my end where I answer her questions about: – How I…
Read MoreHow A 22-Year Old CEO Went From Selling Children's Stories To Getting Funded By Amazon: Exclusive With Voiceflow CEO Braden Ream
WATCH LISTEN READ How The CEO of Voiceflow Turned An Interactive Children’s Storybook Into One Of The First No-Code Tools to Build Alexa Skills and Google Actions I can remember first starting to build Alexa Skills back in 2017-2018, and researching “no-code” tools to do so. At the time, coding Alexa Skills from scratch seemed…
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 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 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 MoreWeb Design Q and A: How To Communicate Your Web Data To Upper Management
WATCH READ Yo, you ever have someone ask you a question, and it’s a great freaking question, and it makes you think so much while you’re trying to answer it, that you don’t really give your best answer? I mean, your answer is okay, but it doesn’t really help them as much as you know…
Read MoreHow To Promote And Monetize Your Business Podcast
READ Why does your business need a podcast? Let’s look at the data: I started my podcast exactly one year ago, yesterday, and I already have almost 5k total plays. That’s really without doing much active promotion. TechCrunch reports that one quarter of Americans listen to podcasts each month. 88% of 12-24 year olds…
Read MoreHow Building A Company Is Like Building A Fantasy Football Dynasty
READ This morning I woke up at 2:45 a.m. local time to partake in the 14th annual dynasty fantasy football draft in The Crew Fantasy Football League with nine of my best friends. It was 8 p.m. local time for them, but I wouldn’t miss this thing. I’ve build a dynasty team that has competed…
Read MoreLeadership Lessons: Let Others Lead
READ I thought I was a leader earlier in my career. But it wasn’t until I realized I was failing by trying to do everything myself that I actually started to become one. I realized I was being the opposite of a leader. Later, by necessity, I had to learn to let others lead. Whether…
Read MoreService Businesses Must Have The Patience Of Soccer (Futbol) Players
READ As you may know by now, I’m a HUGE Sports Fan. And from “growing up in the Sports Business,” I constantly equate Sports with Business. There are just so many similarities that the analogies are endless. Case in point, I’ve NEVER been a huge soccer / futbol fan. But since my family and I…
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