“Although a large body of research does show that people become happier as they move from being very poor to lower middle class, after this point the impact of income on happiness is much weaker. Think of someone who makes $100,000 one year and $110,000 the next—do we really expect this additional income to suddenly […]
I would have never guessed that Camille Paglia would be in awe of Sara Palin or perceive her as follows, “Conservative though she may be, I felt that Palin represented an explosion of a brand new style of muscular American feminism. At her startling debut on that day, she was combining male and female qualities […]
Markets are conversations.
Markets consist of human beings, not demographic sectors.
Conversations among human beings sound human. They are conducted in a human voice.
Whether delivering information, opinions, perspectives, dissenting arguments or humorous asides, the human voice is typically open, natural, uncontrived. […]
I have been going through Google Docs and discovered an internal document I would like to share with you from back in the beginning of 2007. Taylor Donlan wrote it to explain to our new staff how best to reach out to and engage online on behalf of our clients and in general. I was […]
According to an online quiz on Details, “Are Your That Guy,” I am totally that guy: a total douchebag, apparently.
1 You initiate fist bumps.
Yes
No
Someone told me that high-fives are passe so I have replaced them with bumps and regular, manly, handshakes.
2 You order foreign dishes in an accent.
Yes
No
I ask for foreign dishes, yes, properly. If […]
My firm, Abraham Harrison, and I are helping the Fresh Air Fund place 200 inner-city kids from New York City into country homes for a free summer vacation this summer. Please help me out — help me share the opportunity far and wide! The Fresh Air Fund has provided free summer vacations to New York […]
I quickly realized that StumbleUpon is the coolest and hottest social bookmarking service nobody has heard of. I love it but I don’t nearly use it enough: either as a stumbler or as a marketer. I found this on Blog Marketing Journal and thought I would open it up to you:
In case you are not […]
I have finally gotten around to catching up on all the Atlantics that have piled up in my absence in Berlin. One very compelling article is an anonymous essay written by “Professor X,” In the Basement of the Ivory Tower.
I am still trying to sort out my thoughts on this — please excuse the disjointed […]
I just posted an article onto Marketing Conversation called Gifting Bloggers Doesn’t Mean Pushing Swag and within minutes Stevie Wilson of LA-Story wrote the most amazing comment on the culture of swag that is commonplace in Los Angeles, California… (via Marketing Conversation)
Swag is the name of the game in Los Angeles– in a city that […]
One great thing about owning a Social Media PR firm is that I get to do cool stuff. Another great thing is that I can bogart some of the stuff. Well, I am number-one box of the Life Changing Box, which you can see over on my Facebook Profile! (Please feel free to add […]