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This morning I got an email that is the type of email that I don’t enjoy receiving. The client had a complaint about their episode that went live this morning. It is an issue that has happened in the past, and it happened again today. That’s never fun when you strive for things to go…

oday I released a new episode of my trumpet dynamics show. And although it’s a new episode, it’s a republishing of an interview that I did five years ago. It features a terrific trumpet player named Phil Snedecor, who is a professor at the Hartt School in Hartford Connecticut. In our conversation, Phil shared a…

Sana and I were recently discussing our future plans. And since Sana is the consummate educator and student, she is strongly advocating for me to get some sort of advanced degree. And since we live a stone’s throw away from my alma mater Regent University, we’ve talked about me perhaps going for a doctoral or…

Yesterday I shared a couple of things about online marketers that, while I see the use of doing in the right way, seem to have undue influence placed on the success or failure of their businesses, shows, channels, what have you. Essentially it comes down to a lack of real contact and communication with real…

I’ve been in this online marketing thing for a few years now, and I have to say there are a few things about this business that I just don’t get. This isn’t to say that I think these things are useless, because many people I know and even work for have figured how to use…

I’ve intentionally waited a good while to share this story so that I could have as much emotion removed from its telling as possible. Also because I don’t want to unduly influence people’s perception of a legit and by all accounts honorable business providing a valuable service to the marketplace. It’s purely personal, as you’ll…

About a year ago, my son Gabriel informed me he wanted a cat. Not a dog, not a ferret, not a guinea pig, not even a mongoose. A cat, or nothing at all. I was open to it, and truth be told I’ve always been partial to dogs, but to each his own right? Well,…

A couple years ago, I wised up to social media and took steps to severely curtail my activity on it. I was at one point a legit Facebook addict. I would make a comment somewhere, then “get into it” with complete strangers, thinking I was somehow adding to the value of the global economy by…