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Is It Time For Your Social Media Detox?

Lifestyle January 9, 2023

After seeing this brilliant video, and being frustrated for some time now with the fact that “social media” has very little to do with “social” but everything with “media”, I’m going

Putting the social back in “social media”

Entrepreneur December 10, 2022

I’ll admit it. I use Instagram professionally.

An Unconventional Approach To Social Media

Entrepreneur June 18, 2022

This week confirmed once again that social media advertising is probably not what you should be doing as a creative entrepreneur. Who else watched the 2018 Apple Keynote? Parts of it was a direct attack on Facebook and how people perceive their behaviour. While every entrepreneur out there thinks... Read more

Why Social Media Ads Are A Waste Of Your Time And Money

Entrepreneur September 22, 2021

Ever since my iPhone started tracking how much time I spent by looking at the screen and reporting my total “screen time”, I’ve become awkwardly self-aware of how much time I could have left in the day working on things I actually cared about. And even with that knowledge,... Read more

Why I Deleted My Bumble Account

Review July 13, 2021

I went for another run this morning and my running coach mentioned “connections”: how many people could you check in on today, outside of social media, directly in person, via phone or text? I realize that while I have a lot of “connections” – that more important list of people could... Read more

I’m Ending My Love-Hate Relationship With Social Media – And You’re Invited

Review June 18, 2021

One of my most important goals is to have much more direct communication with all of you, not controlled by social media bots and algorithms, but from one human being to another. To do that, I’m introducing a new way to connect – directly through text messaging. This has... Read more

Are You Searching For Your Own Site On Google?

Web July 13, 2018

I was on a webinar the other day where the host, in response to a question I asked, Googled for my name. It was a fun experience, but honestly I didn’t know what to expect when he started typing my name. Did you ever look for yourself on Google?... Read more

Everything Popular Is Wrong: Why Facebook Ads Don’t Work

Entrepreneur May 29, 2018

A Facebook ad just told me Facebook ads suck. That’s right. Someone is trying to tell me ads don’t work using an ad. Hypocrisy at it’s finest. What’s wrong with the f*ing world? Pardon my language. I can get quite passionate about “social” media. Also, this is not my... Read more