What Makes Super Clients?

January 27, 2021

Super clients make effective decisions continuously.  Effective decisions are the ones that are ones made with conviction that are rarely (as in almost never) questioned and allow the foundation for what comes next to be ever firmer.  Sometimes these clients have the biggest budgets, sometimes not.  What they all have is abiding faith in the […]

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Talent, Wisdom and Experience

January 20, 2021

Talent only exists to allow you to see and/or do what others naturally cannot as easily as you can. Unnurtured talent is an oxymoron.  Talent only exists as a platform to find wisdom that will, in turn, encourage the limits of talent to expand.  Experience is never just the passage of time, it is the […]

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Hit “Record”

January 13, 2021

How many of you record your calls with clients?  Why not? You can say it feels awkward, invasive, unethical.  Yadda, yadda, yadda.  Yes, using the recording as a weapon is problematic, then again if so many of us did not hit record these days, change would not nearly be as afoot as it is.  We […]

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Leap

January 6, 2021

Here we are in the darkest of dark before the light.  As much as the light is coming, and it is, we are witness to a raving disease, lawlessness that has no place and a hard few months of economic pain for so many creative businesses.  And yet, the light will be here and you […]

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Race To The Top

December 16, 2020

So this will be my last post for the year.  I will be back the week of January 4th. Every year I read through all of my posts to see what the journey has been and where we might go.  Despite the pervasiveness of COVID, social unrest, a new administration and all things leading up […]

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The Status Quo

December 9, 2020

This is the time of year when most creative businesses slow down and start to think about what is to come in 2021.  Like everything else, COVID has upended everything.  Now, most are trying to contemplate how to make to the other side and what their world will look like when they get there.  Enter […]

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What Does Erase The Box Really Mean?

December 2, 2020

Here we are facing the darkest of winters in the United States.  Ho ho ho, more than 3,500 people in the U.S. will likely die from COVID on Christmas Eve.  Millions upon millions more will contract the disease between now and then.  And yet there is hope that Spring will bring a rebirth like no […]

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Abundance

November 18, 2020

In your best place, you know there is more than enough for everyone; the more you give the more will be given.  Creativity is its own success no matter the result.  If only you were always in your best place. Today, it feels impossible to believe in abundance.  The whole point of Thanksgiving is to […]

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Conviction

November 11, 2020

Every business owner is being tested these days, especially creative businesses.  Simply, the ground underneath your feet is perpetually uncertain.  The pandemic, politics in the United States, economic turmoil, technological leaps.  You name it and the winds of change (and chaos) blow ever harder.  Yet, on the other side is opportunity to shift, to redefine […]

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Hope

November 4, 2020

I write this on November 4th, with the outcome of the U.S. presidential election and that of the control of the senate still uncertain.  No matter the result though, the effect is the same.  We in the U.S. are a deeply divided people with many millions diametrically opposed to many other millions.  If there ever […]

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