Burger King, Crap and Word of Twitter: Good Reading

On November 23, 2008, in Weekend Reading, by Brett Duncan

More tasty links from the week that was: Don’t Be Crap. Love this Bono quote. Print it, frame it and read it on a regular basis.  Burger King Has Dropped Its Wallet. This is just brilliant. Burger King’s latest viral wonder is randomly dropping wallets all over metro areas. Read the post for the full [...]

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Words, Links, Innovations and Giant Leaps in Wine Labeling

On May 4, 2008, in Marketing, Weekend Reading, by Brett

A few noteworthy posts I’ve stumbled on over the past few weeks . . . . Yes, Words Matter: So when do you use “more than” instead of “over?” Better yet, when does it matter? CommonSense PR has a take on it. Link/Comment Baiting: Ed’s listed his favorite marketing-ish blogs. I’ve hit a few links, [...]

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NFL Draft: Lessons in Strategy

On April 28, 2008, in Marketing, Strategy, by Brett

Watching the NFL Draft can be a rather fascinating process, as it was this past weekend. There’s so much excitement in the thought of grabbing that amazing talent and seeing your favorite team add to their roster, not knowing if they’re going to pan out in the end. Over the past few years, the draft [...]

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Most Profitable, Least Profitable Small Businesses to Start

On April 5, 2008, in Small Business, by Brett

A summary of the Forbes Magazine list of most and least profitable small businesses, with the lists included.

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Making Connections vs. Making Impressions

On March 31, 2008, in Management, by Brett

I lucked out this weekend and was able to meet and receive a presentation from Bruce Painter at a local DSWA event in Dallas. As detailed on his website, Bruce is a coach extrordinaire for both professionals and families, and he’s possibly best known as the author of The Giving Zone, a “roadmap for a contributing, [...]

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What’s Your Oboe?

On March 24, 2008, in Strategy, by Brett

My wife and I spent our Friday night at the Meyerson in Dallas listening to Amy Grant and band play with the Dallas Pops Orchestra behind. It was nice, especially for my wife who is one of the biggest Amy Grant fans on the planet. As things got started, the orchestra began the tuning process. [...]

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Hourly Rates, Eliot Spitzer and Formulas for Follow-Up: 9 Links Worth a Read

On March 22, 2008, in Weekend Reading, by Brett

Great reading from the past few weeks – enjoy! Charging By Project, Not By the Hour: If you keep up with my blog on a regular basis, you know I’m anti-hourly rates. The Freelance Switch, one of my favorite new blogs, nails it on the head in this post. In Skellie’s words, “Setting up timers [...]

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What do Failure and Success Have in Common?

On March 17, 2008, in Uncategorized, by Brett

The answer is Action, according to Steve at Start Up Blog. This visual is perfect. Post Footer automatically generated by Add Post Footer Plugin for wordpress.

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Launches, Perfection and Flux

On March 7, 2008, in Product Launches, by Brett

Steve makes three solid points that are Post-It Note worthy. It’s an excellently succinct philosophy. The one that made me really stop and digest was this one: Perfection does not exist . . . only chasing it does. I’d add to it that you can’t possibly know what perfection to even chase until you’re in the middle [...]

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