Posts Tagged ‘fail’

Sometimes You Can Only Win After Failure

Sometimes You Can Only Win After Failure

Sometimes your client or potential client needs to fail before you can help him. That was a difficult lesson for me to learn, but has proven to be an important one. And if you’re going to be successful in the service industry, you better learn this one, and fast. Earlier (Continue reading…)

How a Bad Video Can Ruin Your Fundraiser

How a Bad Video Can Ruin Your Fundraiser

I recently attended a fundraiser where the opening video was so poorly produced that instead of help the cause, I believe it actually hurt it. The excuse was a familiar one, “it’s about the stories and not the production,” was the reply to my text on how bad the video (Continue reading…)

Social Digital Fraud: A Failed Social Media Campaign

Social Digital Fraud: A Failed Social Media Campaign

I was recently reminded of a failed social media campaign that started with a lot of promise but went nowhere. For all practical purposes the campaign is still going because there are “posts” being created everyday. As I reflect what went wrong, here’s my assessment: Blog content is never fresh. (Continue reading…)