In These Tough Times Here’s a Way to Print Your Own Currency Legally … with Content

On August 25, 2010, in Feature Interviews, Featured, storytelling, writing, by Steve Kayser

Whatever business you’re in you have a story. If it’s a good story it informs, educates, entertains and helps people down a path to find a solution to the problem they have.

The trip down the path is your story.

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Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead

On July 19, 2010, in Featured, by Steve Kayser

Did the Grateful Dead lift their iconic name from another band? Forensic investigation reveals …

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The Greatest Words You’ve Never Heard

On March 10, 2010, in Featured, by Steve Kayser

They can make you laugh, or make you cry. Engage or enrage. Herald new life, memorialize lives gone, inspire great acts of heroism – or despicable acts of evil. They can transport you to …

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The Seven “New Rules” of Business Presentations I Wish I’d Been Taught in Kindergarten

On March 9, 2010, in Featured, by Steve Kayser

Avoid lying-flying “Stink-o-potamus” presentation status. Use the principle of “Creative Limitation.”

Overcoming Resistance: One Tribe at a Time

On November 1, 2009, in Character, Featured, courage, by Steve Kayser

For those of you that are, at this very moment, being slowed by Resistance, taunted by Resistance, need inspiration to fight Resistance, aspire one day to defeat the evil beast of Resistance, meet a very special person …

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Non Vi Sed Arte – Not by Strength, by Guile

On June 12, 2009, in Character, Featured, courage, honesty, leadership, by Steve Kayser

Is it possible to be a person of the highest character, chivalrous and honorable, retaining your humanity while fighting for the very survival of your civilization? To be a person that has the guts to stand up to a “Stand and Die” order? And if so, can people like this exist (succeed) today? Can people with all too human flaws – however borne up on the wings of honor, duty, compassion, justice and noble vision – even make it today?

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Sales 2.Oh-No Presentations – A State of the Business Presentation Cartoon-torial

On May 8, 2009, in Featured, Steve Kayser, honesty, humor, by Steve Kayser

There aren’t many things I rather do than sit through a business presentation. Except for maybe being boiled in oil. Or, being buried alive. Or straddling and sliding down a 200-ft razor blade into a pool of rubbing alcohol. Here’s an Animotorized Cartoon-torial of the State of the Standard Corporate Business Presentation (AKA a Gluteus-Maximus Sales 2.-Oh-No Vomitus Eruptus).

Life … Pass it On

On April 18, 2009, in Featured, Uncategorized, courage, honesty, by Steve Kayser

It starts with a phone call. The one moment in life that every parent dreads. A nightmare every parent prays will never happen. A mad rush to the hospital. An anxious eternity. You finally arrive and burst through the doors. A doctor comes out, maybe two. Their faces tell you what you don’t want to know.

The End of Marketing and PR?

It’s not PR.

It’s not Marketing.

It’s the evolution of business communications.

It’s a revolution in business communications. And it’s …

2009 New Year’s Resolution Dissolution … Already?

On January 22, 2009, in Donkey O'Tee, Featured, humor, storytelling, by Steve Kayser

Featuring an interview with Lynne McTaggart, author of “The Intention Experiment.”

I fully intended to keep my 2009 New Year’s resolutions. I knew it would be hard. But I had good intentions. I had good intentions. Really. I lasted …

Accidental Creative Problem-Solving … on Purpose?

On January 11, 2009, in Featured, Steve Kayser, by Steve Kayser

I was working on a story titled “All-Time-Worst Pitch … Made Me Rich,” when I ran into a perplexing problem.  A total roadblock. How to simplify a complex story – one that involved quantum physics, cancer, depression, hope against all odds and the ephemeral topic of “miracles?” The story was about a terminally ill cancer [...]

The Last Post

On January 5, 2009, in Character, Featured, Uncategorized, courage, by Steve Kayser

A step ahead. A step behind. A blink of the eye at the wrong time. And … it’s over. A memory bouquet to the loved and lost who faced the unfathomable unknowable on the way to their Last Post in 2008.

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Tesla on Twitter – Twitter on Tesla

On January 1, 2009, in Featured, Steve Kayser, Uncategorized, honesty, storytelling, writing, by Steve Kayser

What do you get when you mix Nikola Tesla, quantum physics, Paul Dirac, Marc Seifer Ph.D., author of the Tesla biography, Tim Eaton, the visual effects editor of Forrest Gump, Twister, Roger Rabbit (and others) with questions from Tim O’Reilly, the founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media via Twitter? A fascinating look at how social network sites like Twitter could act as a new “collective conscious” for business or life. Oh … did I mention a surprise visitor, Dr. Michio Kaku?

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How to Defeat Your Inner Deadbeat

On November 15, 2008, in Featured, Steve Kayser, storytelling, writing, by Steve Kayser

In every person’s life, there is a still, small voice that tries to guide you to a wonderful calling − a destiny. Your destiny. A calling that you, and only you, were put on this earth to fulfill. Near silent, this voice is powerful enough to lift thoughts, dreams and visions to a higher ground. Do you still hear it?

Banish the Boring Boilerplates!

On November 2, 2008, in Featured, Steve Kayser, by Steve Kayser

DaDonkey Disasterpieces Corporate boilerplates are boring. A waste of words. Horribly obtuse. Garbled, befuddled, perplexing, muddled obfuscatory nightmares. If they were paintings, they’d be called “DaDonkey Disasterpieces.” They’re written to give you an idea, a snapshot, of who the company is, what they do and basic contact info. They’re typically found at the end of [...]

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HOW TO COST JUSTIFY A SOCIAL MEDIA NEWS ROOM

On October 24, 2008, in Featured, humor, by Steve Kayser

Creating or re-designing your current news room into a social news room to keep up with today’s business requirements means you will have to justify the costs to the CFO.

Be prepared. Your presentation will have to have a hook so powerful you can hang a hat on it.
They will ask questions. Many. Then many more. Each question will have money attached.

Here’s what they’re not looking for.

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