WATCH READ In this conversation with a friend, I had the opportunity to give an overview of my entire career, starting as an unpaid intern with the Detroit Pistons of the NBA, to building WordPress websites and creating content as a side hustle, to becoming Director of Marketing and Public Relations at Columbia State Community…
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READ Each year, Halloween marks the anniversary of Data Driven Design, LLC. A year ago, going into 2020 (Year Four) I wrote a post about why I started the business, how thankful I was to have my team of nine full time employees (at the time), and thanking a ton of instrumental people who had gotten…
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WATCH READ Sometimes when you’re living your life, day-in and day-out, you don’t realize just how special it is. Our new friend Keri Roberts, of TheBrandingConnection.com, also a host of the Inside VOICE Podcast, asked my wife Kate Hickey (COO of Data Driven Design) and I to join her on her podcast Extraordinary Things, and…
Read MoreREAD There’s no question in my heart how I feel. And I rarely have any trouble saying how I feel. I typically don’t have trouble writing it, either. But there is no safe zone for this conversation. All bets are off, and they have been off for a long time. And I have so much…
Read MoreREAD When I was in first grade at North Hill Elementary School in Rochester, Michigan, I’ll never forget a series of “run-ins” I had with a specific para-pro in the lunchroom. For whatever reason, she was just mean. She’d come over to our table and say really mean things, for what I thought was no…
Read MoreThe end of Q1 2020 represents a time not only when the world changed, but business forever changed. All businesses, large and small, were forced to immediately look in the mirror and make very tough business decisions.
Read MoreThe details don’t matter as much as the overall punchline: Now, more so than ever, we really don’t know what’s going on with each other, unless we communicate, without judgement.
As business owners and marketers, let’s also try to extend this lack of judgement to ourselves.
Read MoreWATCH LISTEN READ Another Message From Spain The unthinkable and unimaginable has happened all at once. As much as I love working from home and holing myself up in my office to get a ton of work ton each day, being quarantined with my family home from school is a whole other story! In all…
Read MoreWATCH LISTEN READ A Message From Spain I just wanted to thank everyone who has reached out to me to check in on how my family and I are doing in Spain. Right now we feel safe, healthy and prepared for the next 2-4 weeks. We are in support of the Spanish government’s decision to…
Read MoreWATCH 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…
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