Led by bestselling author and international marketing consultant Tim Miles, our team helps good companies & good employees & good customers connect in this Age of Rapid Distraction. For twenty years, we’ve helped hundreds of companies and thousands of people communicate more powerfully, connect with more authenticity, and do more with less. You’re joining people from the U.S., Japan, Scotland, Canada, Ukraine, Australia, Guatemala, and—to … [READ MORE...]
Hire Tim To Speak
As an internationally-renowned leadership, marketing, and motivational speaker, Tim Miles earns rave reviews and off-the-chart evaluations from conventions, conferences, and companies for his presentations, webinars, and workshops. To paraphrase screenwriter David Freeman, Tim took everything that made him weird as a kid and got people to pay him money for it as an adult. His unique … [READ MORE...]
WORK WITH TIM’S TEAM
For over twenty years, hundreds of owner-operated companies and nonprofit organizations have enjoyed the benefits of our sound, dependable, innovative marketing consulting. In the last dozen years or so, we've helped those same clients with management challenges like goal-setting and strategic planning. However, we're kinda weird... in that we do not solicit business... and your current size has little to do with how likely we are to take you on as a client. Once you become a client, we're paid … [READ MORE...]
Recent Articles
Practically Social: September 22nd, 2017
Stuff to read: Want to be more generous but you aren't sure where to start? Boy, do I have a book for you. As opposed to all the bad things we hear about, let's talk about some of the kind, generous, amazing people in … [READ MORE...]
How To Freely* Give Yourself** A Working Knowledge Of Any Media Channel***
The good news? Published material on any subject has never been more readily available at your fingertips. The bad news? Published material on any subject has never been more readily available at your fingertips. By … [READ MORE...]
The 7 Deadly Sins Of Video
We mentioned in last week's Funny Business Podcast that we recently shot 29 interview videos in a day. With help from our friends at VidBetter, we help about a half-dozen clients with regular video projects, and we're adding … [READ MORE...]
What if you kept just the best twenty percent?
There are millions of search results for "Pareto Principle." My favorite, written just recently by Scott Young, actually has to do with the top misapplications of the "80/20 rule." Quickly, if you're unfamiliar with the … [READ MORE...]
The Weekly Reader for September 16th: Stuff We Wrote and Stuff We Liked
Nancy Schneider shared the picture above and it rocks. This week has had me thinking a lot about the kindness of strangers and the impact they can have. I was flying from Virginia back to Michigan with my 1 year old - … [READ MORE...]
Practically Social: September 15th, 2017
Stuff to read: To say someone is old and wise isn't just a cliché. It's science. Spending the money to repaint your house the same color may seem like a waste...but it's the upkeep and maintenance that will make the … [READ MORE...]
‘Ohana: Leadership Lessons From My Quarterback
The first rule of Marcus Mariota is that he does not talk about himself. He can do many things—roll out and throw across his body, hang in the pocket and zip the ball down the field, run past linebackers when he must—but … [READ MORE...]
I Interviewed 29 People & All I Got Was This Lousy Podcast – Funny Business, Ep. 17
I recently spent twelve straight hours interviewing 29 people. Ryan and I are happy to report that I learned a lesson or two about marketing during the process... because that’s the topic of today’s episode of Funny Business. … [READ MORE...]
Presenting Stories
Today is like a second birthday for Apple nerds. It’s Keynote Day. Because unlike Dan Wilson (my friend and client) and me, you’re not obsessed with this sort of stuff, you probably neither know nor care that most of the … [READ MORE...]
The Weekly Reader for September 9th, 2017: Stuff We Wrote and Stuff We Liked
It was a short week...but a LONG week if you know what I mean. I am fully under the belief that 99% of the time you need a vacation to recover from your vacation. As Labor Day this past week marked the symbolic end of summer … [READ MORE...]