13 years ago, my little boy went to his first easter egg hunt. Racing around to pick up cheap plastic toys filled with gross candy was his idea of a wonderful time, and he enjoyed himself thoroughly. As usual, I discovered myself painfully out of the mainstream. While everyone else’s parents seemed mainly to be there to make sure their kid … [Read more...] about What a Toddler Easter Egg Hunt Can Teach You About Success
Beatrix Kiddo’s Guide to Making It Happen
Did you happen to see Kill Bill? Quentin Tarantino, in his infinite wisdom, swirled two good and completely incompatible movies together to create a pair of interesting but confused train wrecks. I happen to like the slow-moving parts, because I'm weird. People hacking each other up with swords bores me, but I really like long conversations where … [Read more...] about Beatrix Kiddo’s Guide to Making It Happen
Happy Birthday To Me
Please join me in wishing Remarkable Communication a happy birthday! I started the blog exactly a year ago, on August 11, 2007. You'll get a real post later this week, but today I hope you'll indulge me as I look back over the year. I'm not one whose blog rocketed out of the ground--I've build traffic slowly and steadily, and I'm just now … [Read more...] about Happy Birthday To Me
Relationship Marketing Series #6, Connect With One Person
Even though (with any luck) you're marketing to lots and lots of people, no one wants to be a faceless speck in a crowd. Maybe it's a result of the industrial age. Yes, we like to be in tribes, but tribes are small, intimate things. A tribe might be 8 people or 80, but it's not 80,000. The greater the scale we have to deal with in our jobs, our … [Read more...] about Relationship Marketing Series #6, Connect With One Person