by Jeff Slater | Dec 4, 2022 | Marketing Advice, Personal Stories
How Do You Nurture, Strengthen and Expand your Resilience Muscle? From age 14 until age 50, I was either self-employed or an employee. Around 2003, when ConAgra Foods, the company I worked for, closed its office in Raleigh, I had two choices. Either move to...
by Jeff Slater | Aug 15, 2021 | Marketing People
I have been so fortunate to have people in my marketing and business career who were the teachers I needed at just the right time. Being lucky, a teacher seems to arrive at the perfect moment. I got the chance to work with some remarkable human beings who helped me in...
by Jeff Slater | Jul 13, 2021 | Marketing Books
Did you know that in the 1920s, the famed comedian, actor, and director Charlie Chaplin came in twentieth in a Chaplin look-a-like contest? Talk about imposter syndrome! What did poor Charlie think when he couldn’t even be pick as the real Chaplin? Imposter...
by Jeff Slater | Jun 30, 2020 | Marketing Advice, Marketing People, Personal Stories
One of the benefits of having four decades of marketing experience is that you can share what you have learned. Coaching involves being vulnerable and explaining what you know from your screw-ups as well as successes. A truly great coach, like my friend Bob Stapleton,...
by Jeff Slater | Mar 3, 2020 | Marketing Advice, Marketing Start Ups
I had the honor to present last week to a group of twenty entrepreneurs at Launch Cary, a group that offers access to capital and community support. Every time I get to speak to a group of entrepreneurs, I get more out of the engagement from their enthusiasm, energy,...
