I woke up this morning and landed in the midst of a major. Yep, it’s time for The Open Championship and there’s nothing like turning on the tube at 5:30 and seeing the world’s best golfers looking like…well…ME out there as they struggle with wind, rain, and a very different sort of golf. It’s the world’s oldest major championship and while I know that many of you care not a whit about either golf or sport, I do and I’m driving. Of course, there’s also a business lesson in here too. Continue reading
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You Know What They Mean
Another report of marketing brilliance (sarcasm alert) from the digital world. This time it’s a report that ad networks are continuing to track users who opt out based on the flimsiest of reasoning. As a consumer, I’m not surprised and not pleased. As a person who works in digital marketing, I’m appalled since this is exactly the sort of behavior that leads to more rules and less innovation. It puts an entire industry in a bad light even though it’s a few bad apples and not everyone. But I’ll lay out the fact and let you decide if I’m overreacting. Continue reading
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Quitters Never Win and…
I hope you watched the US Women play in the World Cup yesterday. Even if you don’t care much for soccer or for sport in general, this was one of the most thrilling and uplifting things I’ve seen. The US side, top-ranked in the world, played Brazil, the third-ranked squad. The game had just about everything one could want – high levels of skill, some controversy to spice it up, and unbelievable drama that played out right to the final play. As it turned out, for me there was a big business lesson as well. Continue reading
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