Thought Leadership Essays
networking
Keyhubs – Our Evolving Blueprint
Pollen recently wrote an exceptionally hip article about Keyhubs. Unlike many business publications, Pollen is an incredibly cool, artistic and creative medium for fostering community. I had been tracking their feature stories for some time and greatly admired how they integrated visuals and story telling to put together remarkably engaging content. When they reached out […]
People – The Greatest Books Ever
A lot of people ask me what books I read. To be honest, I don’t read very many books. I have never been a prolific reader, although I spent 7 seven years reading this book – not exactly what you would call “light reading” – 2000-plus pages of fine print. Maybe that sucked the reading life out […]
Shake The Tree and Fruit Will Fall – Entrepreneurial Lessons in Business Development
When you are launching a new business (or even if you are a fairly established business) you experience peaks and troughs when it comes to monthly or quarterly revenue. When things are flowing, you think they are going to flow forever. And when things dry up you feel like you might have to close shop […]
The Priceless Path to Press Buzz – Why Relationships Matter
This past week The Line Media ran an article on Keyhubs. The story is nice, but more remarkable is the way in which we landed it. When you break it down and trace the moments that make an “event” like this happen, you begin to appreciate the finer, subtler things in life – namely, the […]
Lessons in Effective “Networking” – Tales of Magic and Mystery
I quit my day job about two years ago to launch this business. I knew that “networking” was going to be part of the growth strategy, but I had never really done it before. I didn’t have to (or so I thought). This is a short story about how networking changed my life. Stage I: Networking […]