Back in the day, small biz owners thought they were über-clever when they named their buisness something like ‘AA Plumbers’. It was a telephone strategy so that they would appear first in the Yellow Pages or other directory listings. Flash…
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Chris Houchens
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business connections
I don’t care for professional networkers … the glad handlers … the schmoozers. However, I do enjoy meeting new people who have similar professional interests. And I absolutely love meeting people who are interesting. But if our meeting feels like…
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the one where I talk about kotex
When most brands try to integrate their social media and traditional marketing, it’s … awkward. Here’s a current commercial for a brand and a product I am biologically unable to connect to: You know what helps says the hipster female…
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death of originality and creativity
One of the odder analogies I use when I teach and present is that of cooking and compression. When creating digital media, it’s best to work with the original uncompressed digital file for the best final result. Using compressed (cooked)…
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linguistical maneuvers
Apple wants the iPad 3 to be called the “new iPad”. This poses some questions for the future. What happens when the next incarnation of the iPad arrives? Will we call it the newer iPad? At that point, what will…
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