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Futurist, entrepreneur, left lane driver, baseball lover

Is Jeff Hayzlett leaving Kodak at just the right time?

On May 28th Kodak CMO Jeff Hayzlett will leave Kodak to pursue a television career. He has recently published a book, The Mirror Test: Is Your Business Really Breathing? His new television show is likely to be centered on offering … Continue reading

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Conde-Nast and the New World Trade Center – a match made in heaven?

The rebuilding of the World Trade Center (WTC) is an ongoing saga. It’s hard for me to believe that nearly nine years after the event of 9/11 construction is only now starting to get into gear. To call it a … Continue reading

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Stew Leonard’s gets it right

I’ve lived in Connecticut for more than 18 years. Even before my wife and I moved here we visited frequently. On more than one occasion we stopped and shopped at Stew Leonard’s http://www.stewleonards.com – self proclaimed ‘World’s largest dairy store’. … Continue reading

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Oh Canada -2010 is Canada’s year to shine

Our company owns shares of a technology partner in Canada so we have interaction with Canadians just about every day. And I also seem to have a good number of Canadians in and around my life. Some are French-Canadian and … Continue reading

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The laws of marketing attraction

According to the “State of Inbound Marketing Report” from Hubspot, as reported by Marketing Charts, inbound marketing is continuing to grow in importance at the expense of outbound marketing. This is good news and further validation that paid search, SEO, … Continue reading

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Guerrilla Marketing doesn’t mean clients don’t have to spend any money

Our agency being on the smaller side has the ability to be nimble while at the same time employing new marketing tools in real time for our own http://www.YourCover.com product as well as for our clients. Because budgets can be … Continue reading

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I’m ready for an EZ-Pass smartphone application

I was driving across the Whitestone Bridge headed to Queens, NYC last night, and as I reached for my EZ Pass, (I don’t have it mounted on the windshield so as to not attract attention to it when parking in … Continue reading

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Travel by rail in the U.S. – getting our ashes kicked

I received an email from a good friend of mine today relating his trials in traveling on business in Europe the past week. Unless you’ve been living under a rock the big story for days and days is the horrific … Continue reading

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Making your business a destination place

I live in a small town in Connecticut. When I moved here there was an old diner called Orem’s that hailed its beginnings from 1921. You can visit the website – http://www.oremsdiner.com. And inside the place it looked like it. … Continue reading

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Social media and Internet censorship in the office will not make things better

I heard a radio spot yesterday from Barracuda Networks. Their offer is to help companies make their workers more productive by blocking/firewalling them from websites and social networks that (as the ad infers) detract from employee productivity and company profits. … Continue reading

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