I hate selfies. I can’t remember when it became a word or a “thing.” But it’s a part of digital marketing I’ve been resistant to participating in. It’s also one of the reasons why Instagram is my least favorite platform for business....
If you’re struggling to connect with your audience, you may also be struggling to find your voice. This is hard because then it becomes easy to miss opportunities to communicate what makes you different from the next person in your industry online. And instead...
“Can you let me know when you have time to talk? No rush if you can’t today.” That’s the message I sent to my then manager around 4:30pm three years ago. I tried to type it casually, so it sounded “casual.” But inside my chest was a marching band having a party. As...
“How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore and a Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot in the Caribbean by Providence impoverished in squalor, grow up to be a hero and a scholar?” The opening lines of the song “Alexander...
Silence is sometimes the loudest sound during times of crisis. Three months ago, a virus shoved its way into our lives and knocked the world off its axis. The name? Coronavirus or COVID-19 for short (as if an acronym makes it less scary—like calling Halloween’s...
Networking and talking about yourself can be a tough line to straddle, which is why many professionals hate the dreaded question, “So, what do you do?” I remember going to a networking event where someone plopped himself in the middle of my conversation and said,...
