WATCH 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…
Read MoreREAD 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 MoreWATCH 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 MoreWATCH 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 MoreWATCH 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 MoreWATCH LISTEN READ I want businesses to know that you don’t need to have an Alexa Skill or a Google Action that does everything for you. You need it to just be integrated with / enhancing your current experience. Michael Antaran, CEO of CARROT Wellness, explains how CARROT started simple, and then integrated Voice based…
Read MoreWATCH LISTEN READ I asked CARROT Wellness CEO Michael Antaran “What advice would you give business owners like yourself about the Voice version of their platform in terms of incorporating an Alexa Skill or Google Action into their digital presence?” His answer was amazing, unexpected, and spoke to my heart – “I would advise them…
Read MoreREAD 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 MoreREAD 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,…
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