It's tax time again. Some people have already filed their returns, some have just started, but many are dreading the hours of paperwork or scheduling an appointment to go visit their tax preparer. Now, since I’m a numbers type of person I’ve already filed my tax returns, but this year I was struck by the [...]
Rockin’ New Year’s Eve, the CBS News year-end recap, a music count down on the radio, and the reply to the full series of Breaking Bad on AMC. At year end, the world seems chock full of reviewing and looking back. And while you’re may be just glad the holiday shopping is over and the [...]
It's hard to overstate the importance of being responsive to your customers. We expect a response when we deal with a company, and we make judgements accordingly.
We were asked recently to propose on a small website for a non-profit trade organization. The group, with about one hundred members, wanted a new website and had been referred to us from another small nonprofit we had worked with. The conversation went something like this: Them: We need a website Me: Ok, what do [...]
Summer can be a deceptively dangerous season, both personally and professionally. Personally, my summer “to do” list is growing about as fast as the days are going by. I have many projects around the house that I thought I would get done this month – if the weather cooperates. But it seems my list is [...]
Modern software tools give a finished, polished look to even the roughest ideas, which requires less imagination to visualize the finished product. Because of these very polished preliminary drafts, it seems like the production of a final file once a concept has been approved should take only minutes — but it doesn’t.
A few weeks ago, I stopped my home delivery subscription to the local newspaper. They were having delivery issues and I finally decided that home delivery of a local printed newspaper (or concern about lack of delivery) was unnecessary. I have now officially contributed to the dramatic decline in newspaper circulation. I consume most of [...]
