Need to Help Others (or Yourself) Problem Solve? Listen Like a Rubber Duck As my lovely and long-suffering marketing assistants can attest, my relationship with technology is love/hate (at best….) That said, I love learning new ways to help others solve problems, so… Read More
“Don’t Weaponize My Shame” This week I was speaking with a client who was feeling like a failure. “Am I ever going to get this?” she asked me. “Maybe I don’t have what it… Read More
“Make Haste Slowly” (All is Coming.) This past week I received an email via my Ask A Question button (Again, please use it.) from someone in our Armed Forces who was newly commissioned and wondering how… Read More
What’s the Recipe for Funny? This past week I spoke to a group of health insurance underwriters in Louisiana; a situation that– on the face of it– doesn’t seem like a knee slapper. I’m happy… Read More
“When in Doubt, Throw it Out” As I mentioned in my last post we are about to undergo a renovation on our house, which has necessitated a wholesale purging of musty corners and funky closets. In… Read More
Try Softer, Not Harder Hello and welcome to autumn! Here at Cole Media Management, I have been “celebrating” the season by having an emergency root canal, scheduling surgery for my dog, packing up my… Read More
Don’t Discount the Message Because You Don’t Like the Messenger A few weeks ago a client and I were discussing strategies for growing her business. One idea in particular seemed like a terrific fit but it had been offered by… Read More
It’s Not Fair!!! How to Go from Whining to Winning I was recently presented with 3 different work scenarios, each requiring a playbook to get from whining to winning. The people who received them found them effective so I thought… Read More
What do Porn and Bad Pitch/Cover Letters Have in Common? More than You Think The nature of my business is such that I have multiple email inboxes. The consequence of that is that one is always, inevitably, in the midst of a spam porn… Read More
The Love You Take = The Love You Make As The Beatles so aptly pointed out, “And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.” What’s had me thinking about this line in… Read More