It’s been a while since I’ve told a story about my rookie adventures in this fine industry of ours. It’s probably going to be a while longer too, since this post is really more of a convoluted philosophical observation than an interesting coherent narrative. Don’t worry though, I’ll work in some jokes in about pyromania or checkerboards to keep things punchy (you scoff, but let me tell you, I can tell a checkerboard joke like no other).
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Imagine my surprise to find that my coworker, Charles Plyter (yes, the Charles Plyter from Michael Cornnell’s blog) and I have the same instinctive reasoning process.
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Don’t really have much time this week. Unlike my somewhat sassy co-worker Mike “I want to be like Charles” Cornnell, I have deadlines every week and oftentimes the blog suffers.
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Being a first time parent, there are a lot of things I didn’t know going in, but perhaps the biggest thing I didn’t even think about is how much stuff goes along with parenting. Babies need stuff. Babies need batteries
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The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.
Sigmund Freud, psychiatrist (1856 -1939)
I know I didn’t tease this in last week’s post, but I thought it might be fun to give you all a glimpse of what it’s like on deadline day here at Promo Marketing, mostly because it’s deadline day today, and that’s pretty much all that’s on my mind. Not that deadlines really bother me, it’s more that if you can see the finish line, you mind really isn’t on kittens or the great sandwich you had for lunch. We’re going to do this piece time-stamp style, and promise each other that we won’t think about kittens until it’s over.
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I’ve been talking a lot about the Web recently, it seems. By my running tally, some type of Internet news or terminology has been mentioned in oh, I don’t know, at least three of my last five blog posts. So, in an effort to keep my (almost) weekly howdy-dos fresh and fizzy, today I’m going to discuss … the Web.
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I’ve recently started work on Promo Marketing’s Top 50 Distributors List, which is amazing and wonderful if for nothing else than the fact that I’m getting paid to make a list. The Top 50, much like the masthead of our magazine, is arranged by income level, ability to wreck house at shuffle board, and whether I can get ahold of your information or not.
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I’ll admit that I was a little behind the social networking curve. I was still a Friendster guy when clearly it was time to move up to Facebook (which is apparently the adult way to send a Ravaging Vampire Attack to another adult).
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A lot of times, in my interviews, suppliers recommend “thinking outside the box.” This is good advice, sort of, except that it’s sort of like telling someone to “do a good job.” Obviously, they should do a good job, but really it would be more helpful to tell them how.
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