Back when life was simple, every family had a family jeweler. But nowadays the family jewelers have mostly been replaced by jewelry salesmen. That’s sort of like replacing your family doctor with a medicine salesman. No problem if you know exactly what you need and he’s got it. But what about when you’re not sure? […]

One of our favorite poets reading a couple of his poems at TED.

Ignore the video; the song is awesome. Michael Bublé with Nelly Furtado.

Saturday Morning Dogs is something the wizard and I compiled many years ago. Click it twice to make it large, then scroll left and right to see how many dogs you can name. Heh, heh, heh. – Indy “America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks […]

Eden Olivia Williams on the occasion of her brother Gideon’s 7th Birthday. Princess Pennie in white.

People read books for the strangest of reasons. I’m currently reading a book about a female aviator in Africa in the 1930s. I have no interest in aviation. I have no interest in Africa. But it’s a great book. I began reading it when I stumbled onto something Ernest Hemingway wrote in a 1942 letter […]

Business Personality Disorder The link above will get you the PDF. To follow the hyperlinks, visit the Monday Morning Memo for March 27, 2017. Aroo. Indy Beagle

Business Personality Disorder (BPD) is characterized by at least two distinct identities or dissociated personality states that show up in a company’s behavior. BPD emerges when unrelated teams work independently in the areas of (1.) Advertising (2.) Web Presence (3.) Sales Training. If a person encountered your ads, then visited your website, then came to […]

This is a photo I took of the wizard taking a photo of Tom McDowall. – Indy

Be Like Amazon: Even a Lemonade Stand Can Do it. Jeffrey and Bryan Eisenberg with Roy H. Williams CHAPTER ONE The car door closed and they were alone. As the old man backed down the driveway, the younger man spoke. “Thanks for doing this with me Poobah.” “It’s what Poobahs are for, Sunshine.” Nothing else […]

Click Here to Read Chapters 1-11 CHAPTER TWELVE – Buyer Legends “Poobah, you told me once that bad advertising is about a company, a service, or any product the company sells.” “Yes, and good advertising is about the customer, and how that company or service or product will transform some part of the customer’s world.” […]

The Cognoscenti Shane Speal felt it was important for you to be exposed to the Porciphone of Max Vandervorst

Darth Vader and Snow White As impossible as this might sound, the 6-minute film you’re about to see was begun in 1945 as a collaboration between “Snow White” Walt Disney and “Darth Vader” Salvador Dalí. Can you believe these two ever met? For a long time, the project remained a secret. It wasn’t completed until 2003. Dalí called […]

Brand Like Amazon: Even a Lemonade Stand Can Do it. Jeffrey and Bryan Eisenberg with Roy H. Williams CHAPTER ONE The car door closed and they were alone. As the old man backed down the driveway, the younger man spoke. “Thanks for doing this with me Poobah.” “It’s what Poobahs are for, Sunshine.” Nothing else […]

Click here to read Chapters 1 – 10 CHAPTER ELEVEN – How to Buy Word of Mouth “Do you remember that time you and Ray Bard took me to lunch at Green Pastures?” “That’s quite a memory you have, Sunshine.” “It was quite a day.” “Why?” “I mean, Ray is the most successful publisher of […]

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With 11 million views on Facebook and 1.3 million on YouTube, this typewriter orchestra gag is YUGE. Here’s Jerry Lewis doing it 44 years ago in 1973. Same music. The movie is, Who’s Minding the Store? But Jerry’s original version was 63 years ago – using the same song by the way – on January 10, 1954, during the Colgate […]

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Four words have echoed in my head for several days. “Not everyone. Not always.” Why do such thoughts leap sparkling like swordfish from the dark waters of the mind? I can’t be sure, but I suspect my heart is responding to all those authoritative voices making silly statements about “the customer” with absolute certainty. These […]

The cognoscenti know the wizard has long admired the insight and wit of Ze Frank. “Nerdwriter” Evan Puschak has now been added to that extremely very short list. Puschak makes BIG IDEAS understandable and triggers wandering flights of fancy through fields of gold. Looking back through his Nerdwriter archives, today I learned the difference between Modernism and […]

Hollister and Gideon made “jumping at the water” look like so much fun that a girl showed up to join them.

A foot-weary Rex, Hollister and Gideon leave EPCOT at the end of 4 parks in 4 days.

Sancho Panza addresses the Duke and Duchess while Don Quixote is seated on the right. By William Powell Frith, RA (British, 1819-1909) 34-3/4″ x 46-3/4″. Presented in a giltwood frame with artist plaque. The scene is from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (Part II., Ch 31). The painting is expected to fetch $75,000 to $125,000 when it […]

Brand Like Amazon: Even a Lemonade Stand Can Do it. Jeffrey and Bryan Eisenberg with Roy H. Williams CHAPTER ONE The car door closed and they were alone. As the old man backed down the driveway, the younger man spoke. “Thanks for doing this with me Poobah.” “It’s what Poobahs are for, Sunshine.” Nothing else […]

 

Click this link to read Chapters 1-9 CHAPTER TEN – How Do You Start with Why? “Sunshine, go to TED.com and pull up the transcript of Simon Sinek’s talk, ‘How Great Leaders Inspire Action.’” “His famous TED-X talk in Puget Sound?” “That’s the one.” “I love that guy.” “Me, too,” smiled the old man. And then […]

Strolling through China in EPCOT’s World Showcase

She called it “the little house in Suffolk”. I never met her, the formidable Lady Blanche, daughter of the 9th Duke of Devonshire; but going by her reputation, I don’t think she said it much in jest. After all, she grew up at Chatsworth. Much bigger than that, and you can’t call it a ‘house’ at […]

“A library is not only a place of both order and chaos; it is also the realm of chance. Books, even after they have been given a shelf and a number, retain a mobility of their own. Left to their own devices, they assemble in unexpected formations; they follow secret rules of similarity, unchronicled genealogies, […]

“A library is not only a place of both order and chaos; it is also the realm of chance. Books, even after they have been given a shelf and a number, retain a mobility of their own. Left to their own devices, they assemble in unexpected formations; they follow secret rules of similarity, unchronicled genealogies, […]

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