WATCH READ A friend of mine recently wrote… “It really sucks to fail, no one likes it… But Being afraid of failure is like being afraid of air. People who are afraid to take a chance won’t ever really breathe easy.” …then, asked me to comment about a “failure” of mine. Thanks Emily. 🙂 I’m…

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WATCH         READ Recently our team has been talking to a lot of clients about “their why” – see Simon Sinek, etc. Clients have wanted to start with their “why,” ask their employees about their “why,” and really dig in from that core in order to tell the story behind their brand.…

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READ I’m always fascinated with how brands spend their marketing dollars. Like many marketers my age and older, I come from a very mixed world in many ways, considering I started my career in public relations for a professional sports organization, then quickly moved into community relations, where I empowered our corporate marketing department to…

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READ Do you remember your first boyfriend or girlfriend? I mean, your first SERIOUS boyfriend or girlfriend. Not the love of your life, necessarily, but someone very important to you. Someone you think of often, even have dreams about? Okay, I’ll calm down now. But for real though, this “person” to me was actually not…

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Listen Read I’m fortunate enough to have built and strengthened many relationships throughout my career. One perfect example is with Dennis Sampier, my former boss and one-time mentor at The Detroit Pistons Basketball Company, who now is a client of my agency Data Driven Design. DSamp, as he’s affectionately known by just about everyone who…

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