(This column first appeared on RIMOFTHEWORLD.net on September 26, 2011.) While we were in junior high school, my best friend Susan and I loved to bake. Unfortunately, we usually pursued culinary odysseys at my house instead of hers. And, because my mother was single...
This column first appeared on RIMOFTHEWORLD.net on August 30, 2010 and on the Business Press on September 1, 2010 and the Press Enterprise on September 4, 2010. It was a bonehead move for my counselors at Summer Fun Day Camp to take a van full of impressionable seven...
This column first appeared on RIMOFTHEWORLD.net on August 1, 2010, in the Press Enterprise on August 7, 2010 and in the Business Press on August 16, 2010. The first time I saw my photograph in a newspaper, I was mortified. I was eight years old. My brownie troop...
This column first appeared on RIMOFTHEWORLD.net on March 15, 2010 Under-promise and Over-deliver Before the advent of the Internet, cable television or PlayStation, as a five-year-old, I was over the moon with excitement about my kindergarten class’s upcoming field...
This column first appeared on RIMOFTHEWORLD.net on February 21, 2010 I’ve always been rather horrified at the sound of my own voice on tape. It’s not even close to what I hear when I’m talking. I wish it was raspy and sultry, or even just hoarse like actresses Lauren...
This column first appeared on RIMOFTHEWORLD.net on 9-28-09 Every September 24 since I could talk, I’ve told anyone within earshot that it was my birthday…family, friends, the Culligan Man. Typically, the polite, sometimes somewhat perplexed response was, “Well,...
This column originally appeared on RIMOFTHEWORLD.net on Sunday, September 13, 2009 Whenever I'm tempted to drone on in blogs and columns, I remember a particularly disturbing episode of the Twilight Zone called The Living Doll. In it, a talking doll named Tina has it...
Since the nature of a blog is to point to valuable content threads, found anywhere on the web, I'd like to provide my readers and clients with information about the most common question I recently hear, "What exactly is social media and how can I use it? Should I use...
So, at first, this whole social media thing was intriguing. I took some time to sign up for a few social media networking sites, in an effort to learn the medium so I could share my findings with clients. But no sooner had I started trying to locate these sites than I...
So I keep having the same conversation with various clients. Everyone wants to know how to use social media to promote business. Basically, the best way to do this is to be who you are when you are meeting with people one-on-one, only do so on a larger scale. In other...
So welcome to my very first blog entry. At my Lake Arrowhead advertising and public relations firm, Mountain Marketing Group, lately I've been the Pied Piper of social media, sharing the importance of setting up blogs and the like. But, like the cobbler's kids who do...
So what marketing lessons can I pass on from the game of BUNCO I just played with my neighborhood friends? Each month, about 16 of us get together to catch up on each other's lives and to try to roll dice in order to win up to 50 whole dollars. I won last month and...