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A few weeks ago at our thinkMSP Summit, we were lucky enough to have Greg Coticchia speak about B2B marketing. Greg is a professor at the University of Pittsburgh’s Katz School of Business and an...
View ArticleYour Song
If you are a music fan, then you may have seen the 2014 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony on HBO. Iconic bands like Nirvana, Hall & Oates, and the E Street band got inducted. And just like every...
View ArticlePure Platinum
I received yet another invitation to join the Platinum level credit card club. Normally, I discard such promotional material. But this time, I wanted to see exactly what privileges they were offering...
View ArticleBroken Record
I wonder how many of the CFOs out there fell in love with their significant other at first glance. It would seem to me that if ROI is such valid tool, then it would follow that one glance would close...
View ArticleHeel
My brother’s dog, Morgan, is pretty fabulous. We recently visited my brother, and my kids fell in love with the dog instantly. That’s kind of a big deal because they have always been kind of leery of...
View ArticleOutside the Lines
*Get NOTES in your email inbox every week by subscribing to CANVAS. Click here. It is hard to believe, but it was almost seven years ago that we launched CANVAS magazine. Time has flown by, mostly...
View ArticleRust
I just returned from the “Rust Belt” part of the country where I grew up. Great memories and a lot of fun seeing my old stomping grounds again. But there is no denying the area is not quite as robust...
View ArticleA Shepherd’s Heart
I recently attended a church service with my Mother. As I looked around the congregation, I noticed an older woman being ushered to her seat by a young lady. My Mother said the older woman was 98 years...
View ArticleUp Your Game
I woke up to some rejection the other day. I picked up my phone and saw an email telling me that a content marketing program prospect wasn’t interested. As you can imagine, that wasn’t how I wanted to...
View ArticleTangibility
We walk down the stairs in the morning and see our kids on their i-whatevers. We text while we drive. We stare at our computers all day long, only to plop down on the couch and watch our flat screen...
View ArticleOutside the Lines
*Get NOTES in your email inbox every week by subscribing to CANVAS. Click here. It is hard to believe, but it was almost seven years ago that we launched CANVAS magazine. Time has flown by, mostly...
View ArticleSimplify
I had the good fortune to attend one of our larger clients’ national sales meeting last week, which kind of reminded me of some of the events in my past life. The agenda was packed with old school...
View ArticleYour Song
If you are a music fan, then you may have seen the 2014 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony on HBO. Iconic bands like Nirvana, Hall & Oates, and the E Street band got inducted. And just like every...
View ArticlePure Platinum
I received yet another invitation to join the Platinum level credit card club. Normally, I discard such promotional material. But this time, I wanted to see exactly what privileges they were offering...
View ArticleBroken Record
I wonder how many of the CFOs out there fell in love with their significant other at first glance. It would seem to me that if ROI is such valid tool, then it would follow that one glance would close...
View ArticleHeel
My brother’s dog, Morgan, is pretty fabulous. We recently visited my brother, and my kids fell in love with the dog instantly. That’s kind of a big deal because they have always been kind of leery of...
View ArticleA Leap of Faith
I recently read an old Harvey Mackay analogy about the African impala. In case you haven’t heard it, an impala can can jump to a height of over 10 feet and cover a distance of greater than 30 feet....
View ArticleThe Vibe
My son played in a hockey tournament this past weekend in which he really started off slow. He just didn’t seem to be playing with any enthusiasm and lacked some real jump. After they lost a couple of...
View ArticleFinal Exam
I wanted to share with you my opening comments from yesterday’s thinkMSP event in Chicago. I cannot thank Greg Coticchia, Chris Harrold, and Mohawk enough for what proved to be another fabulous...
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