Vintage #Montana Tourism Poster via Vintagraph 

Return on Social Media Investment Infographic, via Marketing Tech Blog

Social media is no longer a stop-and-go investment, but rather a long term strategic channel that, when integrated with other marketing efforts, allows brands to connect with users over time.

Good Read! Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is the founder and CEO of WatchMojo.  Karbasfrooshan reflects back on 6 years of his startup and identifies lessons learned in each year:

YEAR 1 (2006) — LEGAL: GET EVERYTHING IN WRITING

YEAR 2 (2007) — FINANCING

YEAR 3 (2008) — CORPORATE DEVELOPMENT

YEAR 4 (2009) – HR: NOT HIRING SUPPORT

YEAR 5 (2010) – SALES: TIMING MONETIZATION

YEAR 6 (2011) — GROWTH VS. PROFIT

• Create an environment that supports your workout goals. Have your gym clothes sitting by your bed and put them on first thing when you wake up. In fact, work out first thing, before your mind realizes what you’re doing.
• Use a trainer or commit to work out with a friend. It’s harder to argue against your accountability to another person.
• Decide when and where you’re going to work out — literally write it in your calendar — and the likelihood of follow-through will increase dramatically.
• Commit to a concrete plan that is simple to quantify: 45 minutes of movement a day, cut out sugar, go to the gym six days a week.
• Realize that the follow-through challenge will only last a few seconds. As soon as you put your sneakers on and start heading to the gym, your mind will give up arguing with you.
• Discipline will be useful for the first week as you get back into working out. But after that, momentum will take over and the pleasure of feeling more fit will quiet the internal chatter.
• Finally, think of all the above as a multifaceted campaign. A checklist that you should go through each day to make sure you are stacking the deck in your favor.

- Peter Bregman, HBR Blogs

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the productive day.

jaymug:

Skype Print Ad Vintage Style

Great Packaging via the Dieline

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“Saying no, thoughtfully, may be the most undervalued capacity of our times. In a world of relentless demands and infinite options, it behooves us to prioritize the tasks that add the most value. That also means deciding what to do less of, or to stop doing altogether.”

Vintage Style DC Character Posters by Michael Meyers

Uncluttered Whitepaces - 

But what is “brand” and why is it important? Brand, in my view, is simply how people  feel about a product, service or organisation. You can’t touch or smell it but you know what it is.

This essentially means that brand is an interchangeable word with reputation (in my opinion). It is a fulfilled promise to a market-place that resonates  with it and ultimately is considered valuable by it. At least that’s what a good brand is. Bad brands are exactly the opposite.

What is there to be afraid of?  Collaborate, share your idea, look for those resources, individuals, and businesses that can make your idea/biz a reality.  You may be surprised at what you find.

The bearded serial entrepreneur — Paragon5, Meetro, and Lefora — likes hanging out with young startups and is open to sharing contacts and relationships. He treats the entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and tech community like family.

And that’s why he operates his co-working space like it’s a living room.

"Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."

Winston Churchill

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29 Ways To Stay Creative Poster

"The future cannot help you unless you are willing to listen through the confusion.
You cannot learn from the future if you are overwhelmed by the present or stuck in the past."

Bob Johansen, and Fresh Tracks, Inc.™