PH Memoirs
Thank You For Your Partnership And Teamwork – Why I Write It In Most Emails
READ When you surround yourself with good people, both from a supervisor, employee, business partner, client, vendor and any other professional relationship standpoint, you’re able to get more done, be more productive and solve problems easily that otherwise would be super difficult and full of friction. This is why, in about 85% of the emails…
Read More10/31 is way more than just Halloween to me :)
READ Three years ago today, I did something I knew I’d do since I was six years old. I started my own company. While not my first company, Data Driven Design is the realest company I’ve ever had. Now, with 9 full-time employees, possibly going on 10, on October 31, 2016, it was just me,…
Read MoreEpisode 218: Pulling From My Inner Childhood (Hip-Hop and Basketball In Business)
Listen Read As a kid I loved Hip-Hop and Basketball. Listen to a snippet of my story on how those two passions have helped my career in business. And there’s a special treat at the end! Thanks for reading, watching and listening, and have a great day! KEEP MARKETING! Paul Hickey, Founder / CEO /…
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 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 MoreData Over Debate: Screen Time Data Exists Now – Let's Use It.
READ So I normally blog about how to use data to drive better web design, digital marketing, software and business success, but I came across something recently that has inspired me to write more often about how to use data in real life. So here goes. I’m not a fan of people’s opinions on things.…
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 MoreHappy Anniversary Jones! 13 Years Ago Today!
READ I believe in “the journey,” “the process,” in really truly working hard to build something special, and that the daily grind of that process should be what you fall in love with, NOT some “end result” or “big payoff” or “greater thing.” The greatest thing is right in front of you, all the time.…
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