Author Archives: Brandon Herrington

Above the Brink

Quite possibly the greatest blog name ever, Above the Brink is the brainchild of my great friend Ethan Langston. Well, so maybe I have to take a little bit of credit for pushing him to do it. And, I may have set up the blog for him and fixed the typos in his first couple [...]

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Start Again

So after more than a year hiatus from blogging, I’m back. While setting up a blog last week for a friend of mine, I started thinking about all of the things that have changed in the past year, and how I’ve shared them. Whether by laziness or convenience, it has been predominantly through Facebook and [...]

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Pointless

As we go through life, let’s remember what’s really important and separate that from what’s not. Because let’s be honest, the truly important things make a whole lot of what we spend our time doing…pointless.

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De-apping Your Life

I went fishing this weekend. It’s a hobby I’ve loved since I was a kid. I don’t always catch a lot but that’s not really the entire point anyway. It’s more about escaping. I get away from the city, from emails, from traffic, deadlines, more emails, the list goes on. One of the best parts [...]

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Customer Service

I have a bone to pick with the entire customer service industry. I’m gonna throw out two examples of completely ridiculous customer service that I’ve experienced and then my solution for them all. Example #1 – The Guitar Store I know that every musician will attest to this experience. You walk into a music store, [...]

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Wow

Click the link to read the full article. This guy is unbelievable. Best part….He doesn’t do it for money. He gives them as gifts! Pencil Tip Micro Sculptures

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Supporting Independent Artists

I’m officially in love with RSS feeds. No tool has better helped me stay current and up to date with news and interesting daily information better. For example, this morning, within 5 minutes of being at work, I knew that the voting polls in Memphis were already screwed up, Woot is having a one day deal on [...]

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The Written Word

Maybe this is because I recently got burned bigtime for something I signed, but the idea of what we author has really been on my mind lately. Think about this. We type EVERYTHING now. Whether it’s Twitter, Email, Texts, Blog Entries, Facebook Updates, the list of what we digitally author grows with each passing year. My Iphone [...]

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Great Idea, Good Music, Go Check It Out

So, how do you get the attention of millions of potential fans through social media? I’ll give you a hint….the word FREE is involved.

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Knowledge Management

In a meeting, we began discussing ways in which our firm could improve the way we share information across multiple offices. We currently run a marketing database and all of our offices are networked, but information is still very isolated due to lack of exposure. The issue stems from the fact that there is no [...]

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