A report on Marketingland yesterday showed that the average American now spends 27% of their online life on social media sites, almost double the amount of time (15%) they spend on the second highest category, entertainment sites. For the last few months, I’ve been using RescueTime to track how I allocate my time spent staring […]
I was driving home the other night from an after work function, around 8 o’clock or so and I was starving. Not starving in the third world country sense of the word, but starving in a middle aged, chubby suburban kind of way. I hadn’t eaten since lunchtime and I was seriously ready for a […]
Fresh out of college, I was selling ads for a small town radio station in Mississippi. Now, we didn’t have much of a training budget, but what we did have was air time. And air time is a highly perishable commodity; if you don’t sell it just goes away. So radio stations will often trade […]
No one has ever had to tell my buddy Scott Scovill to shit or get off the pot. When it’s time to go, Scott goes. Scott is one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the entertainment business, logging hundreds of thousands of frequent flyer miles a year touring and shuttling between his companies in Nashville […]
A while back, I was talking to my three daughters about potential career paths when I mentioned becoming a pharmacist. My youngest daughter rolled her eyes and said “That sounds boring.” My older twin daughters, who turn 18 today, chimed in, in unison: “That’s why they call it work.” I taught them that. And I’m […]
“If you pretend to be someone long enough, it’s not pretending.” That’s what Sheriff Shelby Parlow told the whore with the heart of gold struggling to pull herself back onto the path of righteousness the other night on FX network’s Justified. If You Pretend To Be Someone Long Enough, It’s Not Pretending. What the good […]
I don’t care what business you’re in, if you’re in business, you’re in the business of making friends. Always have been. Always will be. When the Mad Men of Madison Avenue roamed free, business was done among friends over 3 martini lunches and damn dear a full pack of Lucky Strikes. Today, business is more […]
Listen to Free Sample Not that long ago, I ran a full 5k for the first time in my life. And I use the term “run” loosely. It was more like a jog or a trot, kind of a shuffle. But what it most definitely was not was a walk. I didn’t stop to walk, catch […]
Have you ever developed a deep-down, intensely personal, highly irrational dislike, hatred even, for a celebrity or media personality? I have. And I know I shouldn’t care. I don’t even know these people. Take Patrick Kane, for instance. He’s a heck of a hockey player, but there’s something about him that just makes me want […]
A full one third of New Years Resolution fall to the wayside before the end of January according to the productivity experts at FranklinCovey. 9 out of 10 don’t make it through the year. But, the good news is, if you’re going to fail, failing fast is the best possible option. Think of it as […]
