Today Dean Westergaard turns 60. Over 27 years ago and with just a handful of clients, Dean started Westergaard Advertising in the home I grew up in. Several years back, he wrote some copy describing one of our clients as …

In the post-holiday malaise, I was confronted with a simple truth — sometimes Wal-Mart is the only option. I have all of the standard gripes about Wallyworld (or Deathmart as my friend Mike has crudely dubbed them after the unfortunate …

Last week it was reported that the developers of the upcoming George W. Bush Presidential Library bought back the domain name GeorgeWBushLibrary.com that they had originally purchased for $3,000 for the princely sum of $35,000. Ouch. Big ouch. The real …

Because believe me, the clutter is coming. Especially if you live in an early battle ground state such as Iowa or New Hamshire (plus the clutters earlier than it has been in past year). I have no intentions of making …

I’ll get to a more meaningful post very soon. Apologies for not keeping up. It’s been a busy March/April. More on that later. I had to toss these two screen caps I found recently as examples of unintuitive web design …

Forgive the lack of posting. Just digging out from a winter storm. Anyhow, if you’re a movie lover and you hunkered down last night to watch the Oscars like I did, I’m sure you had a chance to catch Apple’s …

I loves me a good book list! Ben McConnell at Church of the Customer takes a stab at one for business leaders in ’07. I can personally speak for several of them while others are on my hit list. (You …

I say ‘hunker down’ because the weather’s supposed to get ugly here on the prairie this weekend. Anyway, today I found so many treats online that I just had to share. A great podcast interview w/Seth Godin. I like that …

Someone recently pointed out that business schools don’t teach courses on how to give a presentation. Well, tomorrow you can get a masterclass. Take a sec and check out Steve Jobs’ address to the troops tomorrow at Macworld. Apple will …

[Note: This is part of a webwide series of blog posts about compact fluorescent light bulbs. January is the darkest month of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. To fight off the darkness, bloggers everywhere are invited to create a …