That Better Be A Great Hour

By on March 7th, 2011 In Advice, Agencies, Best Practices, Marketing, People, Professional Development

We all know that people allow themselves to be seduced by arbitrary numbers and shiny price tags.

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Perspective — Seriously?

By on February 28th, 2011 In Advice, Agencies, Best Practices, Employee Communications, Hype!, Marketing, Media, People, Professional Development, Valley PR Blog

My goal is to to rattle the gilded cages of those who want nothing more than to keep people who think, look or love differently than them, out of their cage.

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Steve Jobs and The Price of Fame

By on February 18th, 2011 In Best Practices

Fame has its perks. The famous usually get paid very well, they are allowed greater access to most anything and they seldom have to worry about how what they’re doing is being received, as we’re always willing to tell them. There are two kinds of fame. The first is the traditional way, where a person’s [...]

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Interns

By on February 4th, 2011 In Best Practices

Do you work with an intern? What has been your experience having an intern? I gotta say, I’ve had a challenging time finding a good one. It seems many times you spend more time re-doing things than getting much work out of them. I’ve never believed in having an intern to file or get me [...]

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SMAZ brings NOW Revolution

By on February 3rd, 2011 In Best Practices, Social Media

Fred Von Graf and team have been busy. Social Media AZ, or SMAZ, is now in its third year. To be held February 11, SMAZ was started by Von Graf to fill a void in the Social Media/Digital Marketing for Business event realm, the event has grown from a place of veterans teaching newbies about [...]

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Google offers SERIOUS speed to market this weekend

By on February 2nd, 2011 In Best Practices

If you have any doubt about what separates today’s 21st century companies from the companies that are “so last century” may I offer one thing — speed! Case in point: this past weekend in response to the Internet shutdown in Egypt, Google  got together with Twitter and launched a talk-to-tweet service so Egyptians could phone [...]

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