Here’s Marilyn McCoo singing an tribute to the Fifth Dimension’s hit record, Wedding Bell Blues, during a 1982 episode of Solid Gold. Marilyn is introduced by co-host Andy Gibb. There is no mention of Laura Nyro.

Coffee With Roy H. Williams and an incredibly delightful talking dog, the great and magnificent Indy Beagle! (I added on that last bit because she obviously forgot to. Just trying to be helpful. – Indy)

The world of online marketing was rocked so hard this summer that it almost fell to its knees. Some really big names in online marketing had the courage to announce that online customers are more likely to buy your products if they’ve heard of your company and feel good about it. Dumbfounded, I spoke to […]

 

From Stephen Semple, director of Wizard of Ads CANADA: I came across this study from WordStream. WordStream is a huge PPC company that works with over 1,000,000 advertisers. They recently did a study of a particular PPC campaign that had a 300% increase in conversion rates over a short period of time (9 months). These […]

Laura Nyro died of ovarian cancer in 1997 at the age of 50. Her piano is being auctioned – along with some other personal items – to help fund a film about her life. She was David Geffen’s best friend and her boyfriend, Jackson Browne, opened for her when she performed in public.

Read Dawn Powell’s writing in The Atlantic

Early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

Banter as a Tool for Selling

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Wizard Academy is a nonprofit educational organization whose chartered mission is to help little companies become big companies. In essence, we teach “How to Get Bigger Faster and Have More Fun.” In the early days of the academy, Ryan McFarland came, listened, learned, and then went home and used all that we taught him. His little […]

Devin and Setsumi do ZZ Top at the epic Halloween party of Joe Davis. Austin, 2017

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