I love to sing. Love. It. I especially love those tight Barbershop harmonies. Recently my business coach (who is helping me investigate this “work/life” balance concept) gave me some homework: contact the Sweet Adelines and find out about joining. The Sweet Adelines is an international organization of female barbershop harmony groups, and there are some sizeable chapters in this area. Since I love easy homework, I dug in right...

Bearded, bubbly pitchman Billy Mays passed away today in his home in Florida, according to press reports. It was stunning news–Mays was only 50 years old, and kept up an intense schedule of travel and (of course) pitching. (My condolences go out to Mays’ family, friends and colleagues.) Perhaps most famous for his OxyClean commercials, Mays pitched a long list of products and services. There’s probably a Billy Mays...

Imagine That Creative has been active on Elance.com for nearly two years now. We’ve met some great clients through the site and landed some very interesting projects. Although we haven’t been as active on Elance in the past six months, we were thrilled to learn a few days ago that Elance ranks ImagineThatCreative 6th out of 4,758 worldwide service providers in the Sales and Marketing category. (We also rank in the top 1% of...

This past week I was down for a few days with something I’m going to call the flu. Not bad enough to go to the doctor, but bad enough that I felt like crap and productivity ground to a halt. I passed the time by posting quasi-cranky marketing-related rants at HypnoThoughts.com, a social network I have started to frequent. It became immediately apparent that some members of the site (most of whom are professional hypnotherapists and...

Controversy erupted recently over the issue of “ghost tweeting.” Former “Apple Evangelist” and current venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki has built a sizeable following on Twitter, the micro-blogging site that will soon be getting its own satellite TV channel (kidding–it already gets enough exposure on CNN). About 35 “tweets’ (messages) are broadcast to Kawasaki’s 90,000+ followers every day....

Well, it was a thrill-packed New Year’s weekend. The new website seems to be functioning at about 90% (although we’re having a fascinating issue with post times) and now the blog is live. When I was back in college, one of my least favorite classes was a playwrighting class I took as an elective. I was a directing major, and since I also had to take modern dance, voice, speech, acting, costume design, etc., playwrighting seemed...