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If It Ain't Broke, Fix It (Before You Have to Replace It)!

The Flat A few weeks ago, I had a bad car week. I had just had surgery and had to go to a follow-up visit the day after another doctor's appointment. I walked out into the garage to recycle some stuff and noticed I had a flat. Because of my surgery, I could not change…

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What's the Deal with 2025?

This time of year, the two weeks around Christmas and New Year's, always seem like a blur. It's hard to remember what day today is, especially when both holidays fall in the middle of a week. Business generally grinds to a halt with people and companies taking vacations. TV is filled with retrospectives of the…

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Data is a Gift… Share The Love!

Do you remember life before Beepers, CB Radios, and Fax Machines? All three gained momentum and popularity in the '70s and '80s and peaked in the '90s. However, all three fell victim to mobile phones. Beepers became text messaging, faxes became email, and CB radios became Nextel phones and then standard mobile phones. Mobile phones…

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BACON – Chapter 2: Cha-Cha-Cha – Changes

You can’t control change; it controls you. Chances are, you are in one of two camps: 1) Those who embrace technology or 2) Those who are overwhelmed with all the change. Now, you may still be a damn the torpedos, I am going to use my printed Franklin planner and Palm Pilot Blueberry thingy kind…

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Look Back… Move Forward

At the beginning of 2023, businesses were facing the possibility of rising inflation, a recession, and workforce shortages. Then, the tech business community added some spicy Artificial Intelligence into the chaos soup. While the Bitcoin Bros were trying to pass themselves off as ChatGPT prompt writing gurus (making $100K or more), sales teams were tasked…

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Look Over There? How to Turn Distraction into Disruption

I have had multiple people ask me about using AI in marketing. They had this perception that I would show them how it works so they could replace my services with this marketing Golden Ticket that has a psychological or hypnotical effect to magically convert the internet to an ATM. I would be happy to…

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