I started Mountain Marketing Group in 2008. With several years of experience in the marketing departments at the City of Glendora, Azusa Pacific University and St. Bernardine Medical Center, and with a degree in communication with a minor in business...
(This column first appeared on ROTWNEWS.com on January 1, 2011 and in The Press Enterprise on January 14, 2012.) For our family, 2011 marks the year our daughter, Lauren, and her fiancé, Kyle, got engaged. Atop Coit Tower in San Francisco on New Year’s Eve, Kyle...
(This column first appeared on RIMOFTHEWORLD.net on December 19, 2011.) One of my family’s Christmas Eve traditions is a White Elephant Gift Exchange. For the uninitiated, the cruel process goes something like this: Purchase a gift worth $5. Wrap it up so it looks...
(This column first appeared on RIMOFTHEWORLD.net on November 6, 2011.) One of the reasons we moved to Lake Arrowhead is because we love the snow. But dealing with it poses a myriad of associated problems, including (but not limited to) getting stuck on mountain roads....
(This column first appeared on RIMOFTHEWORLD.net on August 15, 2011.) Long before anyone realized the potential business applications, I created a Facebook account to reconnect with high school friends. The official label for those of us who signed up before anyone...
(This column first appeared on RIMOFTHEWORLD.net on June 5, 2011.) I know when it's time for a manicure or pedicure without even looking at my hands or feet. But when it comes to tires, I've long relied on strangers to inform me when I need new wheels. And inform me,...
(This column first appeared on RIMOFTHEWORLD.net on May 8, 2011.) The TLC show Extreme Couponing kind of freaks me out. I mean, who has 60 hours a week to clip and organize coupons, much less storage for 72 boxes of detergent and 433 tubes of toothpaste, even if the...
This column first appeared on RIMOFTHEWORLD.net on November 8, 2010 and in the Biz Press on November 10, 2010. I don't think I've ever seen a more depressing movie than Pay it Forward. Spoiler Alert: Although the premise of doing things for the sole purpose of making...
This column first appeared on RimoftheWorld.net on November 16, 2009 and in the Business Press on November 30, 2009. I was on my way to meet with prospective clients when I found myself on the crest of a mountain, at the top of a trail reserved for dirt bikes, ATVs...
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 first appeared on RimoftheWorld.net on 9-07-09 at 4:13 p.m. By Kathy Bowling I grew up in the 70s. So, in my children’s eyes, that makes me roughly the age of dirt. Considering how much change I’ve witnessed in the field of technology over the past 30...
I just got back from a PRSA seminar. For the uninitiated, that is a professional networking group for public relations' practitioners where people actually sometimes meet in the flesh instead of over bits of data on the Internet. While I was there, I ran into several...