I don’t really talk much about this with my clients or business contacts, but in addition to being a superstar marketing writer (he said, in a shamelessly self-promotional tone), I’m also a firebrand slam poet. “What’s slam poetry?” Glad you asked! This is slam poetry. And so is this. And this. In a nutshell, slam

Nowadays it seems that you can’t open an Internet browser without reading about some scandal involving some scitech biz. First, it was Volkswagen’s fraudulent emissions tests. Then Martin Shkreli bought the rights to an $18-a-pill AIDS medication and jacked the price up by 5,000 percent. Now, the once-revolutionary blood testing startup Theranos is facing regulatory

So today I was at the grocery store, and I was picking up some fruits and veggies to munch on while I write. And as I was meandering through the produce section, I happened to stumble across the baked goods. There were scones, muffins, pastries, fresh bread, and much more, and each one came in

Earlier this year, I did something highly out of character. I went to my local tailor (yes, they still exist), bought an old-timey three-piece suit with a tailcoat and top hat, schlepped out to the Internet Cemetery in the dead of night, and busted out a mighty, joyous rendition of the final number from Michael

We’ve all had that email. “I really like what you’re doing and I do think you’re the man for the job, but…we’re going to go with so-and-so because he’s cheaper.” Last year, I lost two project bids because I was priced too high. In the first instance, that was actually a good thing – the