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Making Connections… Where are the Wires?

CONNECTIONS I grew up with wires, LOTS OF WIRES. Being a musician and an audio-video and computer geek, I still have bins filled with wires. Audio cables with RCA, XLR, TRS, TOSLINK, MIDI, and banana clip connectors. Video cables with BNC, VGA, DVI, S-VIDEO, and HDMI connectors. Computer cables with SCSI, Ethernet, USB, Thunderbolt, Firewire,…

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The Devil Is In The Details… In The Data

The Devil Last week I attended a CMO panel discussion sponsored by the AMA Triangle. It included CMOs from SAS, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and a couple of other independent medium to small-business CMOs. One of the panelists stood out to me. Not only was he about a foot and a half taller than everybody…

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Fad, Fame, Or Fortune… It's About Business (and Time)

Test of Time Back in 2015, I talked about my concept of the Marketing Trifecta. I will explain what that is in a bit, but there has been a lot of buzz over the last 8 years about new tools that will revolutionize marketing. I have seen so many of them try and fail, come…

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The Power of Awareness & The Awareness of Power

I got hacked. Well, my credit card did. I was balancing my books when I noticed two charges from GoDaddy India on a credit card with a $25,000 limit. I use GoDaddy for domain names, but not in India so that was a BIG RED FLAG! Immediately, I called the credit card company and they…

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The Dollars Are In The Data

What Gets Measured… Gets Done? There is a famous saying, “What gets measured gets managed”, or “What gets measured, gets done”. It's often attributed to Peter Drucker (but his organizations said it was not him initially). Other sources say it was coined by William Thomson, the Scottish physicist also known as Lord Kelvin. That dude…

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