A Place I’ll Remember – July 2020
A Place I'll Remember Congratulations, Mississippi, for the gift you have given yourselves. In case I need to be more clear, good work on changing your state flag. It is one more conversation that you don’t have to have on the way to...
A Place I’ll Remember – June 2020
A Place I'll Remember Launch Lenawee’s entrepreneurial program picked a great time to move forward with a commercial kitchen incubator this year. They aren’t the first this year but, with so much disruption in how we deliver and consume...
Mid-COVID-19 Meetings Won’t Just Be About Logistics
Uncategorized As we open our interactions with one another, if you are moved to exercise caution, don’t let anyone shame you out of the wisdom of your instincts by labeling them as fears. While you are at it though, don’t assume...
A Place I’ll Remember – May 2020
A Place I'll Remember These days economic developers are literally the faces of the communities they represent as we continue to meet with one another in Zoom-ville. In-person visits and accidental and purposeful marketing initiatives have...
A Creative Exercise for You (and your stuck-at-home kids, too)
Uncategorized I can only imagine the challenge of suddenly working at home, and maybe home-schooling too. On top of that, now you have to figure out how to convey the same messages as many other organizations, and with great...
Be the Signal, Not the Noise
Uncategorized You’ve heard it before, let it guide you now. It’s getting noisy out there, so be mindful of who you communicate to and what messages you send. With breathtaking speed, the deluge of “what...
A Place I’ll Remember – April 2020
A Place I'll Remember Sometimes timing is everything – Savannah EDA hit the spot this year with comfort food just when we all needed it. For many years the Savannah Economic Development Authority has gifted location consultants with...
Another Kind of Spring Cleaning
Marketing Places No, I’m not talking about the kind that requires alcohol wipes, you don’t need me to add to that kind of advice. While we are all making our way through this COVID-19 situation, it seems to me that one of...