I have some sad news to report: Lou Albano is dead. You might ask, who is he? Lou was a professional wrestler and managed other wrestlers. He even played Cindi Lauper’s father in her music videos. As a child, my father took me to the professional wrestling matches in Philadelphia (go Phillies, you can catch…
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Any legal marketing professional will tell you how they feel the home page artwork for many law firms makes them cringe. That’s because so many use almost identical stock photos of court houses or scales of justice. (What justice, I was not able to participate in the Cash for Clunkers program with my 2003 Toyota
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A good friend I made initially from on-lines communications is Dr. Toy. She is one the people I respect most when it comes to children and play. I even contacted her when my wife was pregnant to get advice on how to best interact with an new infant! Recently, Dr. Toy sent me a link
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Law.com’s “Legal Blog Watch” has a terrific posting about SueEasy.com. It’s a matching Web site service for clients and lawyers that allows potential litigants to post grievances and wait for responses from attorneys with offers to represent them. It also allows users to find class actions to join in with others. On the surface, it
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When you do a Google search for “Kentucky,” ironically, the top listing is not for the tourism office or even the official site for the state. Rather the bulk of the links are related to the Kentucky derby. So I was a surprised when I saw an Associated Press story in Yahoo! News today about
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Recently the Wall Street Journal had a story about the return of the yo-yo. When I was a kid, I loved yo-yos. The Duncan brand had such an assortment. Status among peers was determined by how many Duncans you owned. However, for me, my yo-yo fame was determined by off-brand yo-yos in the shape of
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When I read about Osama bin Laden wanting to convince Muslims they should hate President Obama, around the time he was to deliver a speech in Saudi Arabia, I thought the bad guys are a new category of “people groups” that seek publicity. Add this latest news to the publicity seeking pirates from Somalia. It’s
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I’ve been following the sad case of music producer Phil Spector who was convicted on April 13 of second-degree murder in the shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson at his mansion six years ago. Our agency does public relations work for law firms and I’m going to ask one of our clients, “How do they
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This week I’ll have the privilege of speaking at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. I always consider it an honor when I am asked to share what I’ve learned with students. The course is called, “The Art and Craft of Writing Nonfiction Books.” My topic is “Blogging Your Way to the Bestseller
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