The first time I met my friend Tom Barbitta, we were arch competitors in the highly competitive meat snack world. Yes, meat snacks can get nasty. At the time, I was the EVP of Marketing for GoodMark Foods, who owned the Slim Jim brand, and Tom headed up Oberto’s...
Over the last month, three emails came to me about Rachel’s Brownies from enduring fans who were wildly ecstatic about our brand. Rachel’s Brownies was a business my wife started, and we built together from 1975-1989. These enduring fans find us either directly...
On a recent consulting project, I ran into so many acronyms that I found myself continually Googling to understand what everyone was talking about. Of course, an abbreviation is a shorthand or common language, so instead of spending three seconds saying quarterly...
Stop Calling Me A Human Resource My head exploded last Thursday. A new prospect reached out to me for some help with a marketing project. Robert spent an hour talking about his human resources as if they were assets he picked up through Amazon. By the end of...
Most of the leads generated for my consulting business come from raising awareness through my blog and networking. If you are keeping score, this is my 1,254 blog, and I started writing on September 9, 2010. Since starting my consulting business four years ago this...
Who was that teacher who gave us the helping hands and worked patiently with us as we tried to learn the most challenging subjects in high school? What’s the name of that co-worker who patiently showed us how to do a little magic with Excel or how to animate a...
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