5 Lessons from a #Socialmedia #Fail

Recently, I started investigating video conferencing systems for meetings with more than 10 video participants and the ability to call into a number from a phone line if you aren’t near a computer. PPAI board member Rod Brown pointed me in the direction of FuzeBox video conferencing. I also found BlueJeans video conferencing in my own searching.

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The Advertising Medium That Remains To Be Seen

My last few blogs have focused on changing communication strategies, lack of innovation and ongoing challenges in our industry. This time, let’s pause a moment to talk about a communication aspect of our industry that really does work.

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Meeting Clients Where They Are

Promotional marketing is at its best when it empowers a client’s brand, meets his or her objectives and fits within a specified budget. It is at this point that the focus shifts from offering options to providing solutions, which goes hand in hand with solving a client’s problems—some of which they might not even know they have.

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Two Ways To Find Your ‘Why’

Do you know your “why?” Why are you doing what you are doing? Please don’t tell me to make money. Money is a result of what you are doing. It is not the why. Your “why” is your purpose. When you find your purpose and live it, you discover meaning and you get to do what you love. When you do what you love, you never have to work a day in your life.

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