Life or Death Direct Marketing

In the great world of marketing there are many subsets of practices and practitioners. Advertising, branding, promotions, public relations, and online marketing are perhaps the most widely known but there are lots of others. Theoretically they’re all concerned with...

Creating Something Out Of Nothing

At 5:45 last Sunday morning, I walked into the lobby of the Hilton Hotel on 53rd Street in Manhattan and joined the crowd getting ready to run the New York Marathon. I was amazed by the energy of groups of nylon-clad athletes waiting to head to Staten Island and the...

Why Didn’t I Think Of That?

A couple of blog posts ago, I wrote about the opportunities of small ideas. How Internet technology (among other things) had made it easier and easier for entrepreneurially minded people to develop their concepts. We talked about the iPhone Scrabble game Words With...

Learning From Longhand and Furlongs.

My laptop broke so I’m writing this blog post longhand. There was an afternoon once when I was at lunch and got inspired and thumb-typed an article on my phone but this the first time I’ve ever written a post with a pen and paper. Even that wasn’t so easy because...

The Death of the Business Card

I’m sitting here in the mezzanine level of the Grand Ballroom in Collingswood, New Jersey, waiting for my turn to get up in front of the crowd and talk about Building Brand Value. It’s interesting to be in the balcony of this restored Scottish Rite temple watching the...