Recently, I attended the  EO Minnesota Entrepreneurs’ Rally XIII  for the first time. I also served as a mentor during the morning Roundtable Mentoring Session, facilitating three separate rapid-fire 30-minute group conversations with business owners who had questions about communications. What I discovered, however, was that most of their questions weren’t about communications, but rather, they were about marketing. I began to realize they considered marketing and communicat

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Last week I found this fascinating old video and wanted to share it with you. Fifty-eight years ago, futurist Arthur C. Clarke predicted a world that is shockingly accurate to the one we live in today. Speaking of careers, he said, “[Professionals] will no longer commute. They will communicate. They won’t have to travel for business anymore, they’ll only travel for pleasure.” Flash forward 50 years and one pandemic later, and I’d say Clarke is relatively spot on. Taking it o

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