The following is a guest post written by my wife Lindsay. Earlier this year she co-founded Crossroads Corral, a Central Florida based nonprofit, with the mission of improving lives through horses. The progress that Crossroads Corral has made in such a short time is truly remarkable and due to the passion, commitment and drive of Lindsay, her…
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of MassMutual for IZEA. All opinions are 100% mine. Life is a journey that we are all fortunate enough to travel. The roads we walk have been paved by the vision, hard work and perseverance of those dreamers who have come before us. Today we…
I almost always stay away from contributing my thoughts on racial topics, but I can’t stay silent anymore. I may offend some people who read this, but oh well. Not that it gives me a pass, but I am half black and half white so I am not coming from a bias racial perspective. The…
My fiance Lindsay and I recently made a big move in more ways than one…We are now first time homeowners and first time landlords. I think that our route is definitely the road less traveled, but I wanted to share our story and experience with my readers. There were lots of ups and downs to…
This past week I had an educational session on branding, marketing strategy, SEO and social media at the Excellence in Entrepreneurship course for start up CEO’s and executives. This Friday I will be speaking at the Invention to Venture boot camp about the same topic. I finished up revising my presentation earlier this week and…
Last year on this date, September 6th, I officially started Brand Advance. We started debt free without investment and were cash flow positive from day one. We had a great first year & have an awesome team made up of very smart, motivated & talented people. We’ve had over 100 design, marketing and consulting projects…
Robert Urban, Chief Marketing Officer of Brand Advance, recently wrote an awesome white paper giving suggestions on when it makes more sense for a company to train an existing employee, hire a new employee, or to utilize the services of a marketing agency for various marketing initiatives. Here’s the link to download the white paper:…
We’re very excited to announce that we have hired a new creative director to join the Brand Advance team. Here are some details from a recent press release: Cutting-Edge Artist Named Creative Director for Orlando’s Brand Advance ORLANDO, Fla. (July 2, 2010) – Rich Johnson, an award-winning artist who has distinguished himself as an innovator…
Recently Brand Advance was referred to a growing author and successful business man to generate buzz and awareness for his upcoming book and tour. After several interactions with him it was clear that he was viewing social media as traditional “push” marketing. The points below were articulated to him in an email…specific aspects of the…
Last week a blog post that I wrote was published on Copyblogger, one of the top 5 internet marketing blogs in the world. It was very well received and within a week had over 400 people share the post on twitter, over 80 people share it on Facebook and 40+ comments. I just realized that…