[Another shift in perception surrounds the specialization of knowledge.] In the early nineties, I went from being a generalist - Campbell's Soup kind of stuff - to focusing on high tech, ... Headhunters said, 'Don't do that, you'll put a cap on your career.' Old school advertising could be very surface-y. You didn't have to do a lot of research for a 30-second commercial. |
[While Granite City's Oktoberfest shows its European roots, it's not alone, says Chase.] One of our mainstays is our Brother Benedict's Bock, which is a traditional German beer, ... It's our own interpretation, but yes, the influence of Europe is there. |
His command has greatly improved, and so has the movement on fastballs. He developed a changeup that he didn't have in high school, and he's grown up physically. |
I always found it ironic that media people were low man on the totem pole, and yet they handled all the money. That's where things can go wrong in a big way. |
In the early nineties, I went from being a generalist - Campbell's Soup kind of stuff - to focusing on high tech. Headhunters said, 'Don't do that, you'll put a cap on your career.' Old school advertising could be very surface-y. You didn't have to do a lot of research for a 30-second commercial. |
It's much harder, and you have to know more. Now, it's cool to do that. |
Like China, the Internet is a huge new market. It's up to you to figure out what to do with it. Use it as a prospecting tool, make connections with people, add value for your existing customers. |
Like China, the Internet is a huge new market. It's up to you to figure out what to do with it. Use it as a prospecting tool, make connections with people, add value for your existing customers. |
People are too darn myopic about making money and they get disappointed fast. If they haven't sold enough flowers they say: 'I'm out of here.' |
The agencies, in a large way, have realized it's about money. You want to optimize the media spend as much as possible across the board. |
The cancer is terminal, and it's going to take him, ... We have to keep his spirits up. Just to have my father every day is a blessing to all of us. |
We build our own stuff a lot. I've seen a lot of changes down through the years. |
Web analytics, CRM, it all comes from direct marketing. Online marketers think they invented it, but they didn't. [Direct marketers] hold the primary skill sets, but they don't know they're sitting in the catbird seat. |
Web analytics, CRM, it all comes from direct marketing. Online marketers think they invented it, but they didn't. [Direct marketers] hold the primary skill sets, but they don't know they're sitting in the catbird seat. |
You know what I told those doctors? ... I told them [forget] you, I'm going to see my grandsons play in the opener against Baylor. |