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Is your goal to hit measures?

ddting — Sun, 06 May 2012 15:05:08 +0000

What it should be: Hitting measures -> Accomplishing goals

What it is in a lot of the corporate world: Goal is to -> hit measures

This is one of my biggest pet peeves of the corporate world. We get these scorecards we have to hit, and we do whatever it takes to hit the scorecard [...]

A peek into my stock portfoilio

ddting — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 03:00:33 +0000

I really enjoy investing in the stock market. It really isn’t as mysterious as it seems to be, or that people make it out to be. It helps to know the basics, but any more than that isn’t necessary. Most of news and info out there is like listening to football experts talk about who [...]

Post featured at 420Creative!

ddting — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:55:31 +0000

My post about how a print ad out-ROIed Google Adwords made it to a design studio blog, 420 Creative.

See the post here.

How neat!

Top 2011 Events: Continued

ddting — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:49:48 +0000

Continuing my Top 2011 Events…

#5. The Breeze Smoker

The last year or so at P&G I had the pleasure of having a mentor who was as creative and outside the box thinking as I was (you know who you are Nathan). Who would’ve thought he had worked on an expensive hobby for the past [...]

Top 2011 Events: A retrospective

ddting — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 05:37:59 +0000

Happy New Year all! 2011 was a year of exciting and major change for me: I pushed the reset button in my life. Many of the top items on the list relate to this. The rest of the list fall into two categories: my signature road trips and an amazing year for Wisconsin sports.

Without [...]

Packers stock sale!

ddting — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:12:15 +0000

So do shareholders get to move up in the season ticket waiting list? On a side note, I called the ticket office to have my address changed. I said to the lady, “So I’m down to what, 80 years on the waiting list?” She said, “No, I don’t [...]

Working on vacation… vacationing while working?

ddting — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 23:36:22 +0000

My ultimate dream is to be able to work from anywhere I want. And by anywhere, I mean on a beautiful beach. I came across Neville’s post on NevBlog and he was bragging about his mobile office… on the beaches of Puerto Rico. He calls it a “workcation.”

I have a couple of similar [...]

Google adwords vs. the Bullsheet – upset special!

ddting — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 23:24:49 +0000

One of the skills I knew I needed to develop after leaving the corporate world was how to nap better marketing and promotions. The easiest thing to do, of course, was buy Google ads. That’s what I did for Tremore Breeze Smoker. It did very well, generating lots of hits and getting us on [...]

Fail early and off-Broadway

ddting — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 21:51:54 +0000

Nice article on failure and its role in success. I love the concept of failing small and fast so you can succeed big.

Fail early and off-Broadway

One of my favorite books, Little Bets, talks about this philosophy as well. For instance, Chris Rock tells jokes at a small club and most of them [...]

Packers stock sale!

ddting — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:37:50 +0000

Looks like the Packers stock sale could happen as early as next week…

From Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

Packers working out details of stock sale