Posts Tagged ‘Entrepreneurship’
Why 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 MoreMy Mindset Was Totally Different Three Years Ago When I Started My Company
READ Heading into Year Three of Data Driven Design, I’m thinking back to when I started the company, and how different my mindset was then than it is now. If 2018 (almost 2019) Paul told 2016 Paul that he’d have a team of 8-10 solid full time employees spanning the skill sets of custom software…
Read MoreTo Valencia, Spain From Nashville: When You Don't Need Much, There's Always Room For More
READ About a year ago I started realizing I didn’t need “that much.” My family, my laptop. My phone. A pair of socks and running shoes. That’s pretty much it. The family for the people I love. The phone to keep in touch with the rest of the people I love, and the laptop to…
Read MoreTop Three Reasons To Fire Your Biggest Client
READ Attention Digital Agency Owners, Web Design and Development Company CEOs, Custom Software Chiefs and those that run Digital Marketing Companies – have you ever fired a client? I’m not talking about “pricing yourself out of a job,” or petering out of an engagement that isn’t lucrative for you. I know you’ve all done that.…
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 MoreThe Ability To Know When You're Having The Time Of Your Life
READ I recently got some positive feedback on a few of my recent blog posts that have mixed personal with professional, rather than focus on digital marketing and web design tips, and to me it all goes together in a weird way anyway so I’m happy to offer up more of my personal reflections in…
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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