April 2013

Debbie Laskey, MBA

If you’re a marketer, you probably spend a great deal of your day checking Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus, and LinkedIn. Depending on your industry, you may also spend time on YouTube, Flickr, Instagram, and any number of other peripheral sites. But did you know that Twitter can be your best

Now, more than ever, businesses are confined by their budgets. Long gone are the days of the blank check for many business expenses, and that includes litigation. If businesses need to live by budgets, so to should the law firms live by the budgets they set for, among other things, litigation.

It is true that

We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves at the 2013 FUSE Design & Culture // Brand Strategy & Packaging Conference earlier this week in Chicago. Having the privilege of snapping the photo below — just prior to the Brand Differentiation Through Design panel discussion on Wednesday afternoon — made my day, thanks for asking Sue!

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Kmart recently unveiled a brand new advertisement that’s about as subtle as a shovel to the face.  While some have described it as juvenile or immature, I can’t help but chuckle everytime I see or hear it.  Maybe that says something about me…

Anyway, here’s the ad.

The ad, which was initially released exclusively online,

–Catlan McCurdy, Attorney

Duets readers everywhere may recall my shock back in June 2011 when I encountered the first Microsoft brick-and-mortar store at the Mall of America. Now, about two years later, the store is still there, located right across the aisle from Apple . The crowd levels in the stores seemed close to the