Not sure if this is venting, or sorting things out, but here goes.
Things I like about my job:
I can learn anything I want about marketing. I can pick a topic and go for it. I can spend as much time as I want reading, learning, and thinking. If I wanted, I could attend any training […]
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This past week, I received a gift card from a vendor I did business with this past year. Not a lot of business, mind you. It is a list broker I have used when I can’t get the appropriate mailing list from the American Medical Association (FatDoctor beware, they sell your info). It came in […]
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Cadillac has the best advertising line I have heard in years. “When you turn your car on . . . does it return the favor?” Will I buy a car because of it? Probably not. But I might at least look at one…in a year or so. But LOVE the ads.
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I am in the marketing department for a subsidiary of a medium-sized, publicly-traded company. Our IT department doesn’t realize that different functions in the company might need different tools. The head of this department is living in the 80s.
The members of the IT team have to do whatever the VP of IT says. I hold […]
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It is this time every year that greeting card companies start hitting me up to purchase their gold foiled, expensive papered, flowery prosed holiday cards. Now please note that these are “holiday” cards. Not Christmas cards. But we all know they are Christmas cards. I’m not Christian. But come on, call them what they are, […]
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I am a lousy filer and am the first to admit it. And now, I have somehow misplaced a web site.
My lack of alphabetic organizational skills goes way back to paper files. Remember those things? Hated them. And although I use dictionaries, I hate them too. They are too close to filing. One must know […]
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