Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

 

This year, when you give your gifts to the ones you love, make a concerted effort to improve their holiday experience by how you treat them.  Not just with authentically thoughtful gifts, but with your own wit and witticism, along with your good humor and pleasant demeanor.

I know, I know, “But you don’t know my Aunt Shirley” you protest.

Well, even Aunt Shirley deserves your best this year. So do make your best attempt to give her the holiday she was hoping for and not one filled with sarcasm, pettiness or emptiness.  There is so much in life that I am thankful for and this time of year is our responsibility to prove it… by doing the little things for others that this world is really all about.

p.s. > We thought giving Jenga this year will almost be a given, but to add the chess clock… brilliant!  {Just 99¢ more for the app}

The World’s Greatest Spokesperson?

The World’s Greatest Spokesperson?

 

If you haven’t seen this video… you must.

Zach Anner is a young man who has cerebral palsy, but that hardly defines him.  In this clip to help promote a new show called “Speechless”, Zach shares his thoughts on the condition and all of the things those of us not afflicted might want to think twice about.  He’s brilliant and incredibly funny.  Thinking that we need to cross paths. 🙂

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The World’s Greatest Spokesperson?

The Secret to Branding

 

Mike Farley offers some inside information on the power of branding and what it means for your business.  Take some lessons from the “big boys”… there’s a reason why branding works, and in short, it’s because you continually pound your message home in everything you do.  Figure out what it is that you do, clarify that message and deliver it over and over and over again.

Ahead of his time…

Ahead of his time…

Remember what life was like before the Internet?

The Internet formally took hold in 1993, but really didn’t make much of a dent until 1996.  By the turn of the Millennium, every company knew it needed a website, but few design firms could build a site worthy of their own design skills… but one did — Vizid.  The brainchild of Mike Farley and Adam Emery, Vizid crafted sites that were literally, ahead of their time.

“We signed on some very good business, ” stated Vizid President Mike Farley in retrospect, “… we did Sargento,  we attracted the attention of Activision, primarily because Adam was just so brilliant in combining great design with wicked programming skills.”

But few business ventures find their true stride.  Not long after their rise to fame and fortune, the horrific events of 9-11 occurred and set the company back as companies across the globe cut their marketing budgets and delayed their advertising and web ventures.  However, the lessons learned were invaluable… and the executions delivered in the early 2000’s, looks as if the work could have been done today.