I'm going to start off the new year with a story. In 2023 I was invited to be a guest speaker at Trine University and ended up presenting information to a class in October and was invited back to be on the judges panel for the students final project. The students had...
Marketing and Advertising Insights
Business Lessons from “A Christmas Story”
With Christmas and New Years days falling on Monday's this season, I am going to take a couple weeks off from the podcast and even publishing next week Both will be updated with fresh material on January 8, 2024. In the meantime, I am sharing the content from last...
Are You Open to Ideas
How was your year? Are you excited about next year? As a business owner, or manager or even someone without a title, every once in awhile we should stop and plan for the future. Problem is many people do it alone, or with limited input. Last week subscribers of my...
On The Road Again
'Commutes Are Back' As Time Spent With AM/FM In Cars Hits Eight-Year High. That was the headline of an InsideRadio.com story last month and that's great news for those of us in the radio broadcasting industry. It's also fantastic news for businesses that want to reach...
Top 10 Holiday Shopping Days of 2023
If the experts are correct, retailers should get set for a very Merry 2023 shopping season. According to the 2023 Deloitte holiday survey, the holiday spirit and spending will rebound and consumers expect to spend $1,652, surpassing pre-pandemic levels for the first...
Digital Discrepancies
I was born in the 1900's. I heard that line last month when comedian Nate Bargatze was hosting Saturday Night Live. Of course I didn't watch it live on Saturday night, I saw it a few days later because we have YouTubeTV as our streaming service and my wife was...
Building Momentum
Are you the type of person who jumps out of bed in the morning full of energy and ready to take on the world? Or are you like the rest of us adults who start a little slower, with a morning routine that perhaps includes a cup of coffee to perk up your senses and as...
It’s Not Just The Facts Ma’am
First a few facts... We've gone thru a challenging number of years in the political world as divisions between Republicans and Democrats have become more prominent, at least at the national level in our country. Those on the left accuse those on the right of not...
Timely Marketing Principles That Are Timeless
It's been two full decades that I've been in the advertising, media and marketing world in Fort Wayne, Indiana, non-stop. During the past twenty years, there have been a lot of changes in technology and how the world operates. However, no matter what the...