This post was not written for anyone but myself. I think that focusing on the approval of others is what stops a lot of people from creating, when we should be creating for our own benefit. I think it is important to publish and release our work to the word even though we may just be writing it for ourselves.
Sir Ken Robinson passed away last month at age 70. He still has the most popular Ted Talk of all time, Do Schools Kill Creativity? and has written numerous books on creativity. As someone who struggled in school I often felt like I was broken. His speeches and books are a great inspiration to me…
I think when marketers look at dashboards and reports, they make a lot of assumptions. We assign either good or bad values without understanding how the data fits into the bigger picture. This causes us to get very excited or freak out about one piece of data in a complex puzzle. We see trees but…
If you go to Google and type a bunch of words into a search box, it will do a pretty good job of returning results relevant to what you are looking for. But, there is so much more you can do with Google search. Search Specific Websites In the search box type site:mysite.com. For example, if…
Few things bring such fear and insecurity to marketers as the unsubscribe link. I however, love it. Making unsubscribe easy is one of the best things marketers can do to ensure they are sending the right message to the right people. We should want to email people that want to receive our message and not…
Over the past five years, I have probably acquired more knowledge than during my whole time in school and it is due to the great people I have followed. These people have made my life infinitesimally better and I admire how they can cut through the noise and make things very simple and obvious. If…
Struggling is seriously underrated. Like lifting weights, it is not pleasant in the moment but will yield great rewards. When I started in my current role, our company was getting started with marketing automation and I was the first one to use it. There was no one to learn from. I had a few online…