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Reflections on the BBB Spark Award: Culture
Constructive workplace cultures help teams work toward their goals and establish guidelines that hold each member, including leadership, accountable while praising valuable team players. As a result, ...
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Reflections on the BBB Spark Award: Community
Notable entrepreneurial organizations show appreciation for their communities by enthusiastically giving back. Businesses should eagerly support their communities by contributing to their indus...
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Reflections on the BBB Spark Award: Character
BBB Spark Award: Character Leaders must be teachable and open to growing with ideas. Leaders habitually seek the truth, are open to criticism and know their own personal development is never co...
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Stop Settling
The narrative about this year has been centered around making it through 2020. After a few months of hearing this message over and over I realized that I had grown tired of hearing about how terrible ...
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Leadership By Letting Go
People have asked me a lot about the day-to-day of WILDERNESS and what helps us as we have been growing as a small business. This is a question that I have seen many times over the years for small bus...
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Ready to Launch?
I tend to be a perfectionist. It’s a problem that we can all struggle with and it’s something I have seen when working with clients at Wilderness Agency. Perfectionism is a problem that ma...
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Innovative Agency, Episode 21: “All Good Marketing is Pictures & Words.”
0:07 Intro The Innovative agency is a podcast designed to help marketing agency leaders answer the question, what’s next in their industry? If you’re looking for actionable ideas about how...
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Beers with Max, Episode 83: Looking at the Long Game
Max: Welcome back to another delicious episode of beers with Max! I continue on my Guinness diet, uh, that they say it is one of the healthiest beers and you know I’ll just have to take t...
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Oh my God, what have I done?
More companies go out of business from growth than decline. I wish I had learned in business school or more likely… I wish I had paid more attention if/when that was shared with me. &nb...
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The Benefits of Working Remotely
A typical work day for me starts off with a horseback ride through the desert at 6:30 AM, with a stop for breakfast on an overlook, and then a horseback back to the corral. Ok, not really. Bu...
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Websites More Vulnerable to Hacking in 2020
Websites More Vulnerable to Hacking in 2020 In 2019 we saw a surge of malicious cyber activity, mainly due to the ever increasing battle between theme/plugin developers and the hackers that try...
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7 SEO Top Tips for Optimizing a WordPress Blog Post
So you started a blog, great idea! The second you write a couple blog articles, the visitors will just start coming, right? Sadly, we wish it were that easy. SEO, or search engine optimization, is the...
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Reflections During a Pandemic
Reflections During a Pandemic These are really interesting times. I spent the better part of 2010 through 2012 in a rural village located in the Mphahlele region of South Africa doing developme...
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When Creativity Won’t Just Happen
When Creativity Won’t Just Happen Creativity takes a lot of different forms. For example, I woke up this morning thinking to myself, “What if I switched up my morning routine and instead of...
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Scouting Matters.
In response to the national media coverage surrounding the Boy Scouts of America, several local community leaders submitted opinion pieces to the local publication. I would encourage everyone involved...
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How To Transcribe A Video Automatically In 2020
How To Transcribe A Video Automatically In 2020 This past week we have had all hands on deck for a video project we are working on for the Department of Defense and the University of Dayton. We...
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Marketing During A Downturn
Marketing During A Downturn The United States is facing it’s longest bull run ever. But it’s not always going to be that way. Someday, maybe soon, maybe years from now, we will have to face...
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Brainstorming Rules- Richard Kaiser
Rule 1: Solve for 1. Before beginning it is important to understand that this exercise isn’t a magical genie lamp with three wishes. Do not try to solve for multiple. To have a successful outcom...
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About Brainstorming – Richard Kaiser
Brainstorming like most things in business is usually misunderstood and hardly performed at the level that the original authors intended. Advertising executive, Alex Osborne, describes the methodology...
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We’ll see
I’m a skeptical person. Most people probably view being skeptical as a negative thing, but if instead I called myself a curious person that seems to sit better with the “glass half full crowd”...
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A Letter to a Young American
I graduated 10 years ago, bounced around 3 different advertising agencies until 5 years ago I started my first company with my best friend. 36 months later he fired me after I informed him that I felt...
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Do you use freelancers?
Do you use a highly-trained team of special operatives? This is what we hear any time we get the question–and it’s a regular one–while we are in a pitch. The real question,...
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That Time I (unintentionally) Sent Dick Pics to a Client
I got lazy. I didn’t update my password for 18 months, and then one night… my phone started to blow up with emails, text messages, Facebook Messenger messages. “Ugh… Richard, did you mean...
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Wilderness Agency moves to 17 Front Street
Excerpted from the Dayton Business Journal Wilderness Agency, which launched in 2016, more than quadrupled its footprint after moving from a co-sharing space in Fairborn to a new facility on Front Str...
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33rd Trip Around the Sun
In like a lion… My 32nd trip around the sun began with the weight of baggage from months prior. In February of 2016, my best friend forcibly kicked me out of the business we starte...
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Trees in the Wilderness
Many people never consider the struggle of the trees in an old forest. Trees spend their whole lives in competition. Each tries to out position the other in the pursuit of a little more sunlight to su...
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Dogs and Wolves
Dogs are loyal. They are dependable. The relationship is understood. They are fed regularly and don’t wander beyond the confines of the fence. Wolves are independent in nature. They are s...
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The Worst Kinds of Businesses
The only time I’ve been laid off was when I was 16 years old, triggering a mild panic attack for what in retrospect should have been a clear sign I was blooming into work-a-holic. I was out of...
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Group Think (if you must)
Brainstorming is ingrained in the DNA of office culture, long debated as to its effectiveness at problem-solving and ideation. I have always embraced secluded thinking when tackling complex probl...
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I Had The Wrong Skills
When I was graduating, I was asked why I didn’t start my own marketing agency instead of going to work for someone else. “I’m not ready.” was my canned answer. I didn’...
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Dayton Business Journal Article: Dayton-area consulting company expands with new office
A Dayton-area company that helps “scale up” businesses grow is now taking steps to scale itself up, signing a lease for an office in Fairborn. Kaiser said the company signed a lease in Nov...
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No Trophies
“I’m just try ‘n stay alive and take care of my people And they don’t have no award for that” +Drake There are plenty of awards to be won in this industry. Early on I wa...
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The Simplest Explanation of the ROI of Branding
Branding can make the difference between $1.50 coffee or $4.50 coffee. Any Questions?...
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Form Over Function
A Tale of Two Platforms While evaluating two project management platforms I took the call with FunctionPoint to give them a chance to win my business. We went through the value proposition and discu...
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Annual Obligatory Post on Mobile
It has become a requirement for marketing agencies to write at least one blog post on the rise of mobile every year; so I thought I would capture some thoughts from a recent Google Partners seminar w...
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How do we get reviews?
It’s a question that comes up regularly when discussing reputation management. “I was curious what your thoughts on for enabling the ability for people to write reviews on products and if ...
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Copywriting Tools: Flesch-Kincaid
Though amid all the smoking horror and diabolism of a sea-fight, sharks will be seen longingly gazing up to the ships decks, like hungry dogs round a table where red meat is being carved, ready to...
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How to Focus and Get Shit Done.
Get out of the routine. Sometimes its a change of scenery. If youre one of the growing number permitted to occasionally work from home you already know the value of this. Taking the laptop to ...
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Stalking Your Competition
Competition is always one of the strongest reasons why businesses will make a decision. Its one part keeping up with the Jones and one part fear of falling behind. For many companies this ca...
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The Chemical Change in Business
The Future of Work Its been over 8 years since the start of the 2008 recession, while the dust has settled there were changes that occurred in business that were permanent shifts in the way that bus...
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Lessons in Perspective
Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship. +Leonardo da Vinci Perspective is something that has been a defining element in the art world. Whether it is done th...
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Exit Stage Right: When the CEO Needs to GO
Learning When Leaders Need to take the Backseat He doesnt like his picture being taken. Jason said. He tells people that Mark responded. Anyone who is the president of a company is alway...
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The End of the Traditional Sitemap.
The World Wide Web This was not an accidental term. A series of WEBsites interconnected by hyperlinks. But for many small and medium size businesses they really dont have a web of pages, they ha...
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Build the website you hope to never use
At its core, every brand has something special to reveal something that inspires people. We are a branding and communications agency. ...
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Stop writing one page resumes
At its core, every brand has something special to reveal something that inspires people. We are a branding and communications agency. ...
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People that don't care about your mission statement
At its core, every brand has something special to reveal something that inspires people. We are a branding and communications agency. ...
