After more than a decade in the marketing and communications business, I’ve seen my fair share of award ceremonies. Rule number one: always order the vegetarian entree. It’s much harder to mess up pasta than it is New York Strip.
Tonight I joined the Colorado Healthcare Communicators at their Gold Leaf Awards honoring excellence in [...]
Last night, as I sat around a makeshift conference table in the beautiful home/studio of artist and Camano Island Art Association board member, Mary Simmons I was reminded of how much the business world can learn from the art world. After all, artists are business people, too. There were 10 artists at our meeting which [...]
When I arrived at my gate at the Phoenix International Airport, I was out of breath, my shoulder was screaming from lugging my ridiculously overpacked laptop bag, and my feet throbbed at the audacity of running across a terminal in high-heel boots. (An extra pair of shoes didn’t fit in my laptop bag).
I JUST [...]
Occasionally building a business can seem a bit like a schizophrenic activity. Perhaps it is because unlike traditional “9-5″ gigs, there really isn’t such a thing as a weekend or a day off. There is a kind of blend of personal life and work life. And the work life is split between the role of [...]
It’s nose to the grindstone time. I’m actually taking my own advice and writing a legit business and marketing plan. It’s something I advise clients to do all the time. Heck, they pay me to do much of it for them. Yet do I successfully manage to do it for myself?
To date? No.
But now [...]
