Currently, I’m working with several potential vendors who are looking to partner with my agency. I work for an ad agency, and while we are as full-service an agency as I’ve ever seen, we don’t do EVERYTHING.  As such, we rely on strategic partners, especially in niche areas, to help out. In my mind, partner [...]

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A few years ago my wife surprised me with tennis lessons and I shocked her with how bad I was at the game. I appreciate the power and beauty of tennis, but it’s never been my favorite sport. While my skills lack, I enjoy watching the game at its finest.  Over the past several years, [...]

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One of the better panels I’ve attended at SXSW Interactive 2011 was about how to improve your “elevator pitch.”  It was run by Joshua Baer, an elevator pitch professional. The elevator pitch is one of the most important tools in business. Someone asks you “what do you do?” and then you answer quickly and succinctly, [...]

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The Washington Wizards are playing historically bad on the road this season.  They have started 0-20, which is, suffice it to say, a brand new level of low. Obviously, this would be a trying situation for any player, let alone the #1 pick in the draft. Rookie point guard John Wall, still not old enough [...]

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How can social media help you in the job world, as an employee, employer or job seeker? What should you be doing to protect your identity? These questions and more answered here: Social Media and the Job World View more presentations from Mike Schaffer.

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Let’s continue our recent discussion of Twitter, since everybody’s Buzzing about it right now. Yesterday, the Harvard Business Review released an very interesting study about usage of our favorite 140-character site. There were some revelations about gender issues (men tend to follow men, men have more followers than women) that really appear to be of [...]

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