Tag: chief marketing officer

I tried to turn an 800 acre piece of dirt into a marketing company. It mostly succeeded until it ultimately failed. Here are the thoughts behind the process – and why I felt like it needed to be done. Our story starts with me having $8 and a half a potato (if you’ve not read…

Jerry Seinfeld’s Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee just might be the best show of all time. I love that show. It’s actually how this site began. Paul King’s Pocket Lint was supposed to be me doing the almost exact same thing he does on that show, only local. With local celebrities. People of interest to…

“You kill it all the time buddy.” That’s what a fiend of mine said to me when I told him the local southwest Florida company I was working for was approaching 150,000 online fans. We were on my radio show, Redneck Radio, on 100,000 watt powerhouse KROCK. I had over 15,000 fans for my show….

I went to a job interview. Well, in any other profession it would be a job interview. They’d want to get to know you. What you’ve done. Your accomplishments. Big wins for other businesses. But when you’re in marketing, sometimes they just want to pick your brain. Get your ideas. It took me a long…

I was a songwriter who made no money, so I was a carpet installer. I was a carpet installer who always wanted to cut his head off, so I was a large scale computer system installer. I was a large scale computer system installer who was abandoned by a company in LAX, with no way…

I had an idea. I thought it was going to be great. I worked on it for days. Hour upon hour. I did a lot of research on businesses. I sent over 200 emails to people. I was sure everyone was going to jump on board and love my plan. It was the greatest idea…