Just for Fun, Randomness

A Dessert Slut is someone who is virtuous in every way, until chocolate enters the room. She’ll ignore good looking men, avert her eyes at salacious magazines in the grocery store checkout and not even be tempted by a Matthew Mcconaughey/ George Clooney Film festival. But if a chocolate decadence cake enters the room, she [...]

Funny Freaking Artist

I’ve been writing about the emotions you evoke through your creations and, without question, my favorite is humor. Something happens in your right brain when you laugh, something that gets your grumpy, “just the facts man” left brain to say “ok, I comprehend that you get the humor in this invented situation and I give [...]

Business and the Creative Revolution

It’s a great thing to tap into your creative side, to let “your soul come out and play”. When you can create something that evokes the creative side of someone else, you are really onto something aren’t you? The Creative Revolution is upon us, because businesses realize, in some respects, that creation is all they [...]

Dinner with a Billionaire

I got to meet a billionaire on Saturday evening, it was at a millionaire’s mansion in Palm Beach, at a dinner party full of other millionaires and everyone was there to hear him tell stories: stories about his success, stories about his family, stories about his pro sports franchise. Stories are what I want to [...]

Bobby Collins, Jewelry Salesman Turned Comic

Imagine one of the guys from the neighborhood makes it BIG in show business, you know, the funny kid who tells a good story? That’s what happened to Bobby Collins, one of the most successful comedians working today, a very funny man who followed an Affluent Artist Principal to make it as a successful artist: [...]

Your Customer’s Brain

Did you ever hear an artist talk about his work and find out that his inspiration was totally different than what the work ended up meaning to you? I’ve got to tell you about a Bruce Springsteen song that did that to me, in a minute.
I drove 80 miles to hear a speaker talk about [...]

Juggling Success

Ok, I’ll be honest with you, I’m not a big fan of Mimes, Barber Shop Quartets or Opera. I always wonder why a guy like Springsteen or Dylan is considered a genius for playing guitar and harmonica at the same time, yet if they make just a little extra effort and strap cymbals to their [...]

Are you a Good Liar?

“P.F. Flyers Make You Run Faster and Jump Higher”. In my youth, long before Converse, long before Nike,  the commercial that had ALL of the boys in my neighborhood’s attention was for this “sneaker” that would change our world and help us all to make the major leagues. After all, they had a “Magic Wedge” [...]

Cops in Mini Vans and Being an Artist…

Or something like that…
Yesterday, on my way to the office, I drove though this little speed trap town where the 25 MPH speed limit is STRICTLY ENFORCED, they don’y mean 29, they mean 25… There was a poor driver getting a ticket from a cop in an unmarked police Dodge Caravan, she was getting a [...]

Business Models That Go Away

We talk a lot here about building your business, about finding your best customers and taking care of them and about using new technology to make your job easier and cheaper. Sometimes, it’s good to look at a business that is utterly failing to figure out what Not to do. I want to talk here [...]

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