There are two basic types of widgets in our world today.
First, there’s the old-school, industrial age definition: a widget is used as a placeholder name for any unspecified device or good, particularly as used by economists for an abstract commodity.
Our sponsorship sales guys think of widgets this way. They often say “the [...]
I tell my kids bedtime stories every night. Each kid gets to pick a theme, and I just make up stories. Often I’m falling asleep and lose track of the narrative.But last night my 6-year-old wanted a story about hunting for shells and finding treasure. So I told him a story in which he found a chest under [...]
My earliest memory of the 4th of July is the annual street dance we used to have on the night before the fourth. Every house on our block had a yard party, and people wandered up and down the block freely. As a kid, the Ridge Avenue Street Dance meant garbage cans full of soda pop [...]
Do magician’s ever get bored? After all, magicians are in the illusion business. They fool people for a living. Wouldn’t you think the thrill of deception would get kinda dull after a while?
As a marketer, I ask myself these questions all the time. I have observed that people (and I am a person) choose to [...]
