There’s the old quote and book, “All I Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten,” and it’s a bit tempting to say “All I needed to know about marketing, I learned at a radio station.” But that’d be a bit of a stretch. I learned the heart and soul, but there were still some muscles […]
Category: Personal
10 Things I (Re)Learned on a Weekend Campout with my Oldest Son
Growing up, I was extremely involved in boy scouting. I worked on our council camp staff for 9 summers, helped lead or at least worked at many district and council camping events, and had leadership roles in the Order of the Arrow and in Exploring. In all, I had spent nearly a year of my […]
Amazing Grace
I’m pretty sure it wasn’t a coincidence the other day, but was instead a Sign, when two things happened at the same time: A recording of the Oak Ridge Boys singing ‘Amazing Grace’ to President Bush Senior came on the radio… and just as it started, an electronic display board I was driving past flashed […]
The Madeleine Choir School, ‘A Ceremony of Carols’
I love this choir. This Cathedral and the music in it are one of my very favorite things about visiting Salt Lake City so frequently.
Analytics Opportunities at Intuit
I received a note today from a client at Intuit that their (Intuit’s) Research and Analytics team has multiple openings. Interested candidates may find links to the various job descriptions or apply directly online. Group Manager, Research & Analytics: Minimum 10 years analytics/statistics experience with a focus on consumer research, must have prior people management […]
Trying to Subscribe to Newspapers (aka Death of a Dinosaur)
Much has been written about the plight of the traditional newspaper in our time. I won’t add to that pile here. Only because this is a story about how I intend to subscribe to a newspaper, but can’t seem to find a way to do so. I’m a happy newspaper reader by most counts. I’ve […]
Retail Websites: The Place to Be
(Photo: Flickr: nateone) The Hub Magazine’s “Alive and Clicking: Retailer websites are surprisingly strong as a shopper marketing tool” caught my eye in my RSS Reader the other day. They do still very much matter, as my clients can explain. As the data in the article shows, for many audiences, a retailer’s core website and […]
Of the “Social” in “Social Media”
I was the instigator in a pretty cool scenario last week in social media. [As an aside, I must say: I’ve been a Facebook guy for several years now, and just recently started to dive into Twitter feet first, and this scenario would only have been possible on Twitter, as @jimmaiella noted today in “Thoughts […]
The Physical-to-Digital Transition
Out of about 300 headlines in my RSS Reader yesterday, a few really caught my eye and got me thinking – one in particular: Business Insider’s article The Brick-And-Mortar Retail Store Is Headed For Extinction (The Evolution of the Retail Store). Stories like that one really catch my attention, since most of my time in my […]