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Posts Tagged ‘Relationships’

15 Reasons Why You Should Go See To Kill a Mockingbird

A lot of folks give me service about doing so many locally-focused blog posts.  I get that.  I’m supposed to “think global.” Whatever.  For some posts, I’ll continue to “think local.”  That’s me.  That’s my blog.  Okay? I live in and love Columbus, Ohio.  My town and the people in it are important to me.  [...]

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35 Things You Can Do To Have Better One-To-One Meetings

Anymore, I’m selective with the meet-ups and events I attend locally.  I have to be.  However, things out of my own backyard are a different story since I don’t know most of the folks there. I do enjoy going the local events, but time is a scarce resource and I’m forced to limit myself to [...]

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Viral Marketing – How Grove City Makes It Effective & Low Tech

With all of the new, shiny bells and whistles, I’ve noticed that we are all guilty of getting hung up on the power that technology now lends us.  I know I’m guilty of this.  I’ll bet you might be too. It seems that recently, marketers are especially prone to getting stuck on the tools.  Stuck. [...]

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Run Dash for Donation – Lindsay’s Story

Today I met Kathy Harrington and had the chance to learn about Lindsay’s story. If you want to understand why I’m running Dash for Donation, and why I believe this is important, please watch this video.  It’s a little over 6 minutes in length and I think it’s important that you watch the whole story: [...]

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Running Dash for Donation to Get You to Donate Life

When you go to renew your driver’s license, do you say “yes” to becoming an organ donor? It’s a hard truth to face.  Saying “yes” to that question means considering the idea that someday, something tragic might happen that could end your time in this world.  No one likes thinking about that. But, in the [...]

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Talking Human Business Works with Chris Brogan

What is Human Business?  You might recognize that term.  It’s become a buzzword in 2010. You’ll recognize who’s in the next video interview and he has some answers for you.  If you’re here, you probably read his blog too, and might have even seen him speak sometime in the last couple years. (Side note:  The [...]

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Engaging Professional Services Buyers at BMA Engage

I’ve spent a good majority of my career living the agency life, marketing and selling professional services.  It can be challenging, especially when your focus centers around selling strategy projects to your clients.  Making strategy (a process) tangible (something you can see, touch and feel) is tough. That’s why this session was particularly interesting to [...]

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7 Outcomes of Organizational Communication & Social Media – A Draft Framework

We seem to have been trained to lump all social media into the bucket of marketing and external communication.  Why is that? I believe that our gravitation towards looking at social media as only a new set of marketing tools has been largely driven by advertising and marketing agency’s quick adoption of them.  Their inrerest, [...]

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New Gift Economy – An Example to Learn From

Jason Velliquette is a killer marketer and a Linchpin.  Seth would be proud knowing that Jason gets where he’s going with his ideas on a Gift Economy. You might have noticed the recent updates to my Twitter background and YouTube channel.  That’s Jason’s work.  Pretty good stuff, especially for someone who’s a self-taught designer. Why [...]

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HOW TO Be a Good Agent Zero

For me, one of the most relevant chapters in Chris and Julien‘s Trust Agents describes the idea of being “Agent Zero”.  In June of last year (prior to the book launch, I believe), Chris wrote this short description on his blog of what an “Agent Zero” does: Agent Zero Connecting and networking and building relationships [...]

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