The Storytelling Bug

A couple of months ago I wrote a post about some of the reasons why some of my projects (and maybe yours) don’t come to fruition – why they don’t ship. At that time, I was working on a new project, which has just launched. Several months ago I began working with Geoff Storm and…

On Copying Quotes:

This is true for so many things. Copying and imitating helps you find your own voice, your own look, your own style…. “Copy out things that you really love. Any book. Put the quotation marks around it, put the date that you’re doing the copying out, and then copy it out. You’ll find that you…

You’re the Product

Unless you’ve been living under a rock you’ve probably noticed the explosion of data in your Facebook timeline and ticker. Especially when it comes to the data presented by third party apps such as Spotify. On the one hand, it’s been a fantastic tool for music discovery and re-discovery (in the last 30 days I’ve…

Gary V. at the Inc. 500

I’ve seen most of Gary Vaynerchuk’s keynotes over the years either online or even live. He’s an amazing speaker but I think that this keynote he gave at the Inc. 500 really stands out. Great stories and points regarding drawing lines in the sand with the way your business operates, social media, and customer service.…

A Commitment to Ship

I never use to be a list-maker but somewhere along the lines I started keeping track of things I needed to do during a given day. Not because I was forgetting things regularly but when you spend most of your time in front of a screen – one task flows right into another, and it’s…