This may come as a shock, but you and your significant other don’t always communicate clearly with one another. So, as our Valentine’s gift to you, we spend 18 minutes talking with one of the most …
Seven Ways To Annoy Me With Your Commercials
(I'm so proud to have Ryan Patrick writing today's post. How would I describe our head of message development who's written upwards of 10,000 ads and who I've known for a quarter century? …
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54 Books in 52 Weeks – The Funny Business Podcast, Ep. 24
Tim & I welcome Brian Sanders to the Funny Business Podcast. In 2017, Brian read 54 books in 52 weeks. We discuss his ambitious project, the leadership lessons he learned, and how he found time to …
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How To Convert Wrong Numbers Into Customers
How many people call your business by accident? And how many of those accidental callers become customers? That number is probably somewhere between zero and diddly-squat, right? It doesn’t …
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How to Avoid Fill-in-the-Blank Advertising
Did you hear about the caption that works with every New Yorker cartoon? New York designer Frank Chimero recently discovered the phrase, “Hi, I’d like to add you to my professional network on …
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A Tale of Two Outlets
The devil is in the details. And by "devil," I mean "electrical outlets." Because, in the past week, not one, but TWO different electrical outlets made a rather large impression on me. One …