It happens to all of us at some point. We get in a funk, whether it be an emotional, physical, mental or work related, these funks are bound to happen at some point. Our friend Dan Duffy recently wrote a Huffington Post article about his case of writers block that lasted him nearly 6 months.…
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I’ve always had a special love of visual content in marketing. Images helping to tell a story. And the truth is, visual content is in the backdrop and forefront of our lives constantly – helping us choose a product, convey our feelings or say something about us. And in today’s ever changing technological world, visual…
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I have thousands of pictures on my computer; vacations, school plays, birthday parties. I’m not in 95% of them. I think that’s a reality for a lot of moms, and I’ve accepted my role as the designated family photographer. But I started to notice something else; I had no clue what was happening in some of the…
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Imagine the scene. I’m in the car with my mother, traveling to our destination, when we both realize we’re lost. While being lost may seem like something stressful or frightening to most people, my mother isn’t most people. Her reaction to having no clue where we were: “Pretend we’re on vacation!” What in the heck…
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Last year I wrote a blog with my social media predictions for 2016. I recently went back and reread them, and I’m actually feeling really great about my predictions. I think I have a knack for this and could set up shop somewhere, charging $100 an hour to read tea leaves and gaze into a…
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In our 17 years in business, Kolbeco has worked with a number of companies, big and small. Through all of that we have found some common themes and attitudes among the most successful. They mess up. A lot. Everyone makes mistakes, but the successful business people seem to accept the mistake and move on. They…
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If you know anything about Kolbeco, you know that we are a dog friendly workplace. That all started 10 years ago when a young, smart, creative graphic designer came in for a job interview. The Kolbeco team fell in love with her and her work and knew that they wanted her on our team. That…
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Every year, it seems there’s a hot toy that every kid has to have. Remember the days of the Cabbage Patch Kid? The Furby? How does a toy become the “it” thing on a kid’s Christmas list, anyway? This year, that hot toy is the Hatchimal. What in the H-E-Double-Hockey-Sticks is that?? For anyone with…
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It’s an exciting honor to be named to the St. Louis Small Business Monthly’s annual list of the area’s Best Marketing Firms for the Sixth Year! More than 200 firms were nominated to the list, but only 26 were selected. “Being named to the Best Marketing list is in itself an honor, but making the…
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I can remember being in a job interview and the question is asked… “What do you consider to be your strengths?” At the time, I had always prided myself in a particular strength, one that I always felt had a lot of value in an organization, and made me more efficient in my work. My…
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