Posts Tagged ‘Professional Development’
My 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 MoreWeb Design Q and A: How To Communicate Your Web Data To Upper Management
WATCH READ Yo, you ever have someone ask you a question, and it’s a great freaking question, and it makes you think so much while you’re trying to answer it, that you don’t really give your best answer? I mean, your answer is okay, but it doesn’t really help them as much as you know…
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 MoreHey Marketers: Websites ARE NOT Media Guides
READ Yo, so I get it. I feel you. I mean, I may seem like I don’t have as much experience as you, but I’ve been in the game for 18 years. I started with fax machines. Making copies. Making print pieces and passing them out by hand to the media. I mean, I know…
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…
Read MoreHaving Patience With The Process
READ Patience With The Process. I’m on a flight to my new home, Valencia, Spain. I was just explaining to my 8-year old son Max the concept behind the phrase “hurry up and wait.” I think the first time I heard this phrase was around 2011 when I really started working in the “digital agency…
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