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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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Banner PR Week

I guess in these past couple of weeks, all this public relations stuff is really paying off. First the band, then a letter to the editor in the Commercial Appeal and then a couple of articles about my firm. This Is Goodbye in the Memphis Flyer Commercial Appeal Letter to the Editor about Pinnacle Taking [...]
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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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Two way street

I was reading a post by Seth Godin today that discussed unethical dealings of companies online. According to Seth, “There’s something about the mechanics and arms-length nature of the web that just begs companies that know better to treat people in a way that they’d be humiliated to try face to face.” In much the [...]
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Money, money, money, money

Music represents a very small percentage of artistic expression yet holds a huge portion of the industry in terms of gross revenue. I have been in and out of the music industry most of my life and have always been uncomfortable with the model of music expression the industry has created. They have been creating, bottling and shipping art [...]
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