What Is An Idea Worth?

The most exciting and profitable part of my business is often also the most frustrating — valuing our ideas. After all, clients don’t come to us because they want to be patrons of the arts. They call us up and hire us because they have a problem and they need to find...

What Was So Damn Important Anyway?

My friend and client, Juan, went on a holiday a couple of months ago. Juan’s from a small town in the Pyrenees, just outside of Barcelona, and he was going back home with his wife and kids for a two-week vacation. Unfortunately, it turned out to only be a one-week...

How To Sell The Dream.

My father was an innovative and very successful real estate developer. The Miami Herald called him “The Father of Florida Condominiums” because he built the first residential condo in the United States and the first office condo in the world. As a kid, I used to walk...

3 Cheap Ways To Build Your Brand (Or Become Mayor).

A partner in a successful medical services company had a problem. Her business was undergoing a number of new competitive challenges as larger, national businesses had begun to market to her clients. Worse, they were offering genericized services at significantly...

5 Ways To Brand Miami, Destinations, And The Arts.

Here’s something I don’t understand: Status, financial success, legislative power, and importance are all the providence of commerce. Yet when we look back over history we see that great societies are remembered not by the business they did but by the art they...
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