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Team DIGO | 04/11/2012 | in
There are so many excuses. So many shades of red and yellow light. You need to see these for what they are, or you’re going to take “Wait” for an answer.
We never get all the facts. Speed chess masters. Champion poker players. Genius stock traders. Anyone who runs a business, a marketing campaign or a brand – they all have one thing in common. They make better decisions with nothing like all the facts.
In other words, they gaze into the same cloudy ambiguity that everyone else sees, and they choose a better path. (more…)
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Team DIGO | 04/10/2012 | in
All of us. We are taught what it should be, but we’re not taught what to do about it.
Jason Fried, founder of 37 Signals, the little firm behind revolutionary products like Ruby on Rails open source programming language and BaseCamp, writes in his wonderful book REWORK, “Start making something.”
He quotes director Stanley Kubrick’s advice to aspiring filmmakers:
“Get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.”
Kubrick knew that when you’re new at something you need to start creating. The most important thing is to begin. So get a camera, hit Record, and start shooting.
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Team DIGO | 03/27/2012 | in
Foxnews.com’s Hollie McKay writes,
NBC’s new talent contest ‘Fashion Star’ is a hit with the retailers it plugs, but not so much with the viewing public.
The much-hyped Tuesday premiere drew just 4.6 million prime time viewers (its lead-in ‘The Biggest Loser’ drew 6.3 million viewers), but sales of the night’s winning fashions soared (more…)
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Team DIGO | 03/19/2012 | in
Why do some people almost always get better advertising?
In a word, it’s the BRIEF.
“Now hold on,” you may be thinking, “I’ve heard this before.” But stick with me, and I’ll share some hard-earned knowledge that changed my creative output and, yes, my life. Seriously. (more…)
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Team DIGO | 02/09/2012 | in
Research in Motion (RIM) co-CEO’s are stepping down. RIM stock has gone nowhere since 2008. Today, RIM’s (RIMM) market cap is $7.74B. Apple’s (AAPL) market cap: $391.88B. Which means that Apple is 50 times more valuable than RIM! (more…)
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Team DIGO | 02/08/2012 | in
Someone over at The Motley Fool knows a hell of a lot about how to create emails that cheer up the CFO. These are industrious testers, not lazy followers. In this era of short, sweet, vacuous little telegrams, only rigorous science could have led to these enormous letters. (more…)
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Team DIGO | 02/07/2012 | in
Mark DiMassimo, CEO of DIGO Brands, came to Fox 5 News to talk to anchors Ernie Anastos and Dari Alexander about his picks for the best and worst 2012 Super Bowl Commercials. (more…)
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Team DIGO | 02/04/2012 | in
Mark DiMassimo sat down with Neil Cavuto for a one-to-one conversation on the fatal flaws in the Gingrich “brand.” DiMassimo argued that Gingrich is a “Challenger but not a Champion,” that the perceived brand negatives of “disloyal, devious and deviant” would ultimately undo his candidacy. DiMassimo concluded, “Newt is a historian burdened by his own history.”
Read the transcript here.
