As a writer, you just want to write. You don’t want to have to worry about jumping through the fiery hoops of red tape to get your story published, you just want to write and share the story. Unlike writers a decade ago, today, thanks to the miracle of digital connectivity, we don’t have to send our work to publishing houses in hopes that some poor soul inundated with pallets of manuscripts from first-time authors actually reads our story and then approves it…
On Wednesday, September 9th Brandon Uttley and I will be at Julia’s Cafe & Books from 9:30-11 a.m. to offer free advertising, marketing, and start up advice to anyone who wants it. Click our names to view our qualifications and you’ll see that we’re no spring chickens. We’ve both amassed some pretty valuable information over our careers. And on September 9th, this vault of knowledge is free to anyone who wants it. It’s our way of giving back to the town that has given us both so much…
(I originally published this post on LinkedIn, and it’s been met with a bunch of solid feedback. Click on over there for the good stuff.) Last month, I used LinkedIn to reach out to ten marketing directors of mid-sized companies in Charlotte about the idea of sustainable marketing. I invited them to connect, and offered to buy them coffee or lunch to discuss how they might integrate the concepts I developed while building the Boxman Studios brand by over 3000% between 2009-2013. Concepts that rely less on traditional advertising, and more…
They call it social media for a reason. Only now, some of the platforms are a lot less social. No matter what anyone tells you, there’s no “right” way to use Twitter. Twitter is a platform of authenticity. Your Twitter canon reveals everything about you. If all you tweet links, you look less human and more robotic. Back in the day, skeptics of Twitter would say, “I don’t care what someone is having for breakfast, why would I use Twitter?” Except…
Please know that this is not one of those self-righteous, narcissistic posts that shame people for not being as cool the author thinks he is. Promise. I learned long ago that you can’t get along with everyone. Even if you try. No matter how nice you might be, there will always be people with whom you don’t gel. That’s life. It’s cool. I also learned long ago how to let people go. Maybe it was my time in the USAF, before…
All young people should get a blog. I don’t care whether it’s a custom-hosted blog like this one, Medium, or Tumblr, teenagers should be documenting their ideas and experiences online in long form. A friend shared an unfortunate story with me this week about his son who was kicked off of a sports team at school. The reason for the dismissal was that he’d said something on Snapchat that someone misconstrued as bullying, and the school has a one-strike policy…
