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My 3 Words For 2013

Happy New Year! Welcome to 2013. What’s the plan?

I was never a fan of goal-setting… and even less of a fan of New Year’s Resolutions. For a long while, I was working within a framework called The Goal Cultivator courtesy of Dan Sullivan (aka The St…

Prepare For Impact

Episode #334 of Six Pixels of Separation – The Twist Image Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to.

Welcome to episode #334 of Six Pixels Of Separation – The Twist Image Podcast. Please excuse the nepotism, but I treat Chris Brogan and Jul…

On The Road (Warrior) Again

Now – more than ever – it’s possible to do business from anywhere at any time.

For over ten years, I’ve been doing my best to figure out how to be as upwardly mobile as possible. To ensure that I can work from anywhere and have access to everything th…

Job Snobbery

Does the title on your business card define you?

Alain De Botton is probably as close as we’ll get in today’s society to a true modern philosopher. I was first turned on to his thinking when Julien Smith (Trust Agents and The Flinch) left me a copy of…

A New Kind Of Startup

Episode #315 of Six Pixels of Separation – The Twist Image Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to.

Julien Smith (co-author of Trust Agents with Chris Brogan and the author of The Flinch) was downright mad at me. We have lunch on a frequen…

You Can Learn A Lot From Someone Who Makes Comic Books

Why didn’t they have commencement speeches like this when I was growing up?

In the past couple of years, it seems like more and more amazingly powerful commencement speeches have been making their way online. The Steve Jobs one still gets its fair sha…

The Lying Game

Distrust in a world of trust agents is problematic.

On May 18th, The New York Times ran a fascinating news story titled, In the Undoing of a C.E.O., a Puzzle. The article is all about former Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson and the recent unraveling of his sh…

Watching Me Blog

Blogs are one of the most valuable marketing tools ever created.

I believe that. I don’t just say it. I mean it by walking the talk. I started blogging in September 2003, and since then I have written almost three thousand posts. I’m proud of this blo…

The Future Of Television Is Social

Episode #298 of Six Pixels of Separation – The Twist Image Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to.

We used to watch TV at night and discuss it the next day around the water cooler at work. Thanks to Social Media it’s becoming increasingly…

Creativity Takes A Lot Of Hard Work

Episode #297 of Six Pixels of Separation – The Twist Image Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to.

How does creativity happen? Does it take a lot of time? Can brilliant creative just happen? What inspires creativity? Who is a creative? Th…

The Art Of The Pitch

Episode #296 of Six Pixels of Separation – The Twist Image Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to.

I picked up the business book, The Art of the Pitch – Persuasion and Presentation Skills That Win Business, by Peter Coughter and could not…

Make A Mobile Marketing Impact

Episode #295 of Six Pixels of Separation – The Twist Image Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to.

While many companies were still lamenting a basic website back in the nineties, Gary Schwartz was already imagining how content, voice and …

The Marketing Agency Blueprint

Episode #294 of Six Pixels of Separation – The Twist Image Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to.

What does it take to create and nurture a modern marketing agency in this day and age? The answer is not as obvious as it used to be. From …

The Truth About Marketing Leadership

Episode #293 of Six Pixels of Separation – The Twist Image Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to.

Mark W. Schaefer over at Grow Blog is about to publish his second book, Return On Influence – The Revolutionary Power of Klout, Social Scor…

Nick Morgan Explains How To Give A Presentation That Changes The World

Episode #292 of Six Pixels of Separation – The Twist Image Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to.

When I got my first offer to speak in front of a large audience, I wasn’t sure where to turn for more professional public speaking and pres…

Madison Avenue And Mountain View Collide For The Future Of Marketing

Episode #291 of Six Pixels of Separation – The Twist Image Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to.

This is also episode #20.20 of Across The Sound. Joseph Jaffe is widely regarded as one of the top Marketing Bloggers (Jaffe Juice) and Pod…

Examining Social Media With Michael Stelzner

Episode #290 of Six Pixels of Separation – The Twist Image Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to.

If you still wonder how to make money on a Blog or what the future of publishing looks like, look no further than Michael Stelzner and his …

Thoughts From The Content Marketing Institute

Episode #289 of Six Pixels of Separation – The Twist Image Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to.

As each year passes newer and more impressive forms of content marketing become available to brands. Social Media acted as a massive cataly…

Is Google+ About To Make Facebook Frown?

It’s time to pay attention to Google+.

Back in July, I Blogged about Google’s foray into online social networking, Google+ (more here: Co-dependency In The Age of Facebook). At the time, the majority of the discourse surrounding Google+ was about whet…

Marketing Has No Future Without Better Education

Episode #288 of Six Pixels of Separation – The Twist Image Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to.

Is there any value in getting a degree in Marketing in this day and age? How well are the universities doing at providing an up-to-date cur…