The Unexplainable

June 12, 2013

The other day my six year old son said, “Since God is everything, he is as much death as life, happy as sad.  It is all one to him.”  A) We are not religious in any traditional sense; B) this is not the first time he has blown me away– an earlier fave of mine: […]

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Engage!13: Biltmore Estate, Tendencias 2013 and Perception

June 10, 2013

For the past several weeks, I have been travelling – first to Cartagena, Colombia for Tendencias 2013 and then to Asheville, North Carolina for Engage! 13: Biltmore Estate. Engage! first.  As I have spoken of many times before, Engage! is a bi-annual summit for luxury wedding professionals.  It just keeps getting better.  So much wonderful […]

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Transition

May 20, 2013

There comes a time when we all have to shift, to transform into something other.  Like it or not, we all mature.  Now, whether we learn a few things along the way, that one is totally up to us.  For creative business owners, however, refusing to learn is the surest road to obsolescence and an […]

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Better Is Always About Tomorrow

May 15, 2013

Nobody wants to believe that the way you do things is actually better than the way it has always been done.  The status quo sticks for a reason – inertia of the known is crazy powerful.  Raised eyebrow, too good to be true is the default mindset, especially for creative businesses.  As far and fast […]

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You Just Know

May 7, 2013

“This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.” 
A memo at Western Union, 1878 (or 1876). At the time, Western Union was the one of the world’s largest corporations and Alexander Graham Bell was having issues with his patent […]

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A Changing World

April 29, 2013

Living through an era of transformation is remarkable.  We shatter long held prejudices, biases, any kind of “isms” daily.  There will always always be a long way to go, but the road traveled so far is crazy.  A quick observation from news of the past several days. Today, the celebrity press is all over Michael […]

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Don’t Stay Lost Too Long Revisited

April 24, 2013

Tis the season.  Almost every creative business owner I talk to is either incredibly busy or is about to be.  Spring has sprung.  You are in it, projects are in full swing and you are struggling to keep up with it all.   As much as you would like to think about strategy, what you next […]

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2013 Top Ten Tips For Creative Business

April 19, 2013

Next month I will be attending and speaking at Tendencias 2013 in Cartagena, Colombia.  I could not be more excited.  Having participated in several events in Mexico, I can only say that I am amazed at the depth and significance of the event market in Latin and South America.  We in the United States have […]

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The Long Burn

April 15, 2013

Creative business demands relationship.  The telephone is your second best sales tool, face-to-face is best.  You build to the end not just to yes.  Working on how this interaction goes from the first moment all through to the finish is everything.  I do will always be a subset of this day forward. Seth Godin had […]

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Decisions

April 8, 2013

The hardest thing in the world is to decide, to commit, to risk being dead wrong.  Most of us want to have some sense that what we are choosing for ourselves, our art and our creative businesses is going to work out. It is why change is so hard.  Usually, something has to be either […]

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