It's been a while since I've shared some of my online marketing tips. In a previous post I had written about how I had dramatically increased my Twitter followers (How My Twitter Following Went from 250 to 253 in Just One Week!) . The post was a huge hit, going viral and increasing my Twitter … Continue reading Optimizing Your Blog for SEO, Courtesy of Donald Trump
In response to a reporter's question about his previous comments about abortion, Donald Trump gave the following response: He was asking me a theoretical, or just a question in theory, and I talked about it only from that standpoint. Of course not. And that was done, he said, you know, I guess it was theoretically, … Continue reading Politician, Comedian, Brilliant Academic
Thirty years ago the idea of getting your drinking water out of a bottle instead of the faucet in your home seemed preposterous. Today, bottled water is a $13 billion industry. It is the second largest commercial beverage category by volume in the United States, second only to carbonated soft drinks, with an average consumption of 34 … Continue reading Who Would Ever Buy Bottled Water… Oops, I Mean Bottled Air?
I've written before about how I am a fan of good TV commercials, and one of my all-time favorites is an Evian commercial with rollerskating babies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PHnRIn74Ag That commercial is now six years old, and I haven't seen a new Evian commercial featuring the babies since then (but apparently there have been a couple). Well … Continue reading The Evian Babies Are Back!
This is the 58h in a collection of newspaper ads written by Harry Gray, then CEO of United Technologies, that appeared in the Wall Street Journal from the late 1970s through the early 1980s. Here is the text from that ad. (Talk about coincidence. My post yesterday was a chronology of many of my failures.) … Continue reading Don’t Be Afraid to Fail
Johannes Haushofer, a Princeton professor of Psychology and Public Affairs, posted a CV of failures in an attempt to “balance the record” and “provide some perspective”. He was inspired by a 2010 Nature article by Melanie Stefan, a lecturer at the School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. She suggested that keeping a … Continue reading A Chronology of My Failures
My son and I were driving back from the gym (well, OK, Planet Fitness) and listening to the radio (WMGK) and the song "Takin' Care of Business" by BTO came on the radio. After my shouting out the refrain over and over, the song finally came to an end, and the DJ, Andre Gardner, shared … Continue reading How a Bachman-Turner Overdrive Song Led to My Most Famous Twitter Follower
Washington Post political columnist Dana Milbank, while speaking to a Georgetown University journalism class, gave the aspiring writers a pearl of wisdom about how he writes his biting columns with edge but not bitterness: “We’ve all heard about how you’re not supposed to drive while angry. You also shouldn’t write while angry.” So as an aspiring … Continue reading Don’t Write When Angry
It's another story that just leaves me thinking, "what is wrong with people?" There was a very sad incident at a Wilmington, DE high school last week in which a young woman, Amy Joyner-Francis, was assaulted in the girl's restroom, and ended up hitting her head off the sink and dying as a result of … Continue reading What Is Wrong with People? Case Study Number No. 4,453,751
I try to avoid writing about the current Presidential campaigns, but this clip of Donald Trump talking about John Kasich's eating habits, while certainly not Presidential, is seriously funny. So if Trump isn't elected our next President, I think he should think about going on the road as a stand-up comic. That's an act I … Continue reading If He’s Not the Last Candidate Standing, Perhaps He Could Be the Last Comic Standing
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