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Jeromy Stallings

DesignMarketing

National Communications Association in San Diego

Outlets of Communication Two weekends past, San Diego was host to an important national annual convention. At the Hyatt Grand Manchester in the Gaslamp, the National Communications Association presented four days of panels and discussions about all the ways human beings communicate. Academic administrators, professors, graduate students, and independent scholars from every state and major universities and colleges across the country attended. It just wasn’t all journalism, sociology, and conversation analysis.  Panel topics were about the way various news outlets…
November 2, 2008
DevelopmentMarketing

Psst!—Do you have your 2009 Website Plan Complete?

Elections are just around the corner and everyone is feeling the pinch of economic downturns, but that is no excuse to stop planning and being creative. Keep in mind what marketing guru Peter Drucker says, “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” He also said, “The computer is a moron” and “unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.” So let’s talk about planning—is your 2009 website plan complete? Do you…
October 30, 2008
Design

Tomorrow’s Technology: What Role Does Your Brand Play?

A recent TV commercial has the new CEO of Sprint holding up the latest cell and saying one simple and true line, “It’s amazing we still call them phones.” It's a black and white ad, set in the Empire Diner in New York City. He then says that technology is useless if you don't know if it is there or know how to use it. This is an excellent product commercial and points out something so obvious that many of…
October 30, 2008
DesignDevelopmentMarketing

Voodoo Economics? Forget It!

A few weeks ago, I wrote in this blog a call to stop paying attention to all the negativity in the news and allowing what is going on in the outside world to have hegemony over your business and personal life. I would like to reinforce that message today, especially with all the chaos and worry with Wall Street, the DOW, government buyouts, etc. etc. I know it’s hard, almost impossible—the newspaper headlines all decry bleakness, and the newspapers are…
October 10, 2008
Marketing

A Call to Action for Positive Change and Hope

What We Can All Do The other day I received an email from a business colleague that I would like to share. In this email, he talked about how he was having breakfast with a friend.  “We had important stuff we needed to talk about,” he wrote.  Problem was, there was a TV above and a few feet behind the, blaring out an incessant stream of bad news from the mouths of the anchormen and on the streaming ticker below…
September 23, 2008