Posts Tagged ‘Professional Development’
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 To Build A Book Of Business Contacts When Starting From Nothing
WATCH READ How do you go about building a business network by starting with no contacts? Just remember, business success is all about relationships. Start with family or friends, or friends of family members, or family members of friends. Pick one you admire. It doesn’t matter what they do for a living. Pick someone. Ask…
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 MoreTime Management Best Practices For Small Business Owners
READ The relentless pursuit of productivity. As a businessperson, It’s really what I think about constantly. It’s really what drives me. We’re a client services company, which means we’re a productivity company. Which means, as the owner of the company, I have to set the bar for productivity and time management. As such, I’m documenting…
Read MoreTrying Desperately Not To Repeat My Own Mistakes
READ 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 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 MoreWhy 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,…
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