If the # of nominations correlates to Best Picture #Oscar winner, my $ is on Life of Pi or Lincoln. #Wordle

Tips on how to improve how we communicate with each other. Because life isn’t always about being right.

6 Habits of Remarkably Likeable People

They’re charming. They’re genuine. And they can make an entire room full of people smile. …you want to make a good impression. You want people to genuinely like you.

Here’s how remarkably likeable people do it:

1. They lose the power pose.
2. They embrace the power of touch.
3. They whip out their social jiu-jitsu.
4. They whip out something genuine.
5. They ask for nothing.
6. They “close” genuinely.

Bounce-Rates Explained.

Approaching 2 years old, this infographic still provides a nice (visual) overview of bounce-rates and gives tips how to improve things. 

Sometime we blame the ads for not working, but it is just as important that the webpage your audiences land on work hard to support the ads and give your audiences what they are looking for.

How much are you paying attention to your analytics?

Neil Gaiman Commencement Speech: ‘Make Good Art’

Inspirational words for creatives and would-be-creatives alike.  …A call to make mistakes. To be wise (or at least pretend to be). To enjoy it. And to in all things, at all times, make good art. 

Shocker! :) “Infographic Confirms It: Advertising People Are Not Normal.” @FastCoCreate

“Why?” is the most important question, not asked nearly enough.

Hint: “Because I said so,” is not a valid answer.

• Why does it work this way?
• Why is that our goal?
• Why did you say no?
• Why are we treating people differently?
• Why is this our policy?
• Why don’t we enter this market?
• Why did you change your mind?
• Why are we having this meeting?
• Why not?

Apple by the Numbers. 

Great infographic and great organization/ 

By 2016, advertisers will spend $77 billion on interactive marketing — as much as they do on television today. Search marketing, display advertising, mobile marketing, email marketing, and social media will grow to 26% of all advertising spend as they are embedded in the marketing mix. We expect this growth to help firms become adaptive, kill off daily deals, re-emphasize marketing’s “p’s,” and turn consumer electronics into audience-targeting tools.

I tend to be leery of “the next big thing” but this is worth the read. via @adage

The entire media process…needs to become more fluid and “always-on” rather than static and sporadic.