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The problem with Gmail is it’s default settings, or the way that people use email regularly. It’s clunky, disorganized, and some people spend more time managing their email, rather than using their email. I frequently get asked how I stay on top of things as a serial Entrepreneur / CEO / Keynote Speaker / Dad. Although there are a bunch of life-hacks that I …
I don’t typically comment about current events in the news, but the recent articles and questions about the Toronto Man-Cave builders has prompted me to write this. If you have been living under a rock, or in a well-built underground man-cave with no radio, last week authorities found a 32′ X 6′ X 2.5′ tunnel in a Toronto forrest. There was …
I have admit it publicly, I am what some people call skinny-fat. I eat whatever I want and don’t gain a pound. I may be slim on the outside, but I have been not doing what I know I should be doing; eating right and exercising. I could list the endless excuses of not staying fit (having kids, running my …
I believe that I’m a pretty normal guy, but once you get to know me you’ll find out that I have some strange habits. My wife knows them, my kids know them, but that’s pretty much it. Here are the top 10 strange things that most people don’t know about me. There are more…but that’s for another day. 1. My …
At Candybox, I have a very strange rule about accepting new projects. I never want to do projects that I wouldn’t show my kids. I want to be proud of every campaign, every site, every graphic that goes out the door at Candybox. Our internal mantra is that we want to make the web a sweet place, and we are sticking to …
One of my favourite Facebook Pages is a local pizza shop that got popular by telling Chuck Norris jokes to their fans. They attended one of our workshops and came up with a great content strategy that worked! It engaged, entertained and built a dedicated following of customers that have helped spread the word about their business. In honour of …
Having trouble attracting new talent? Are you finding Millennials frustrating because they are lazy, incompetent and never able to focus on a single task? If you feel this way about hiring those 20 somethings, I have the answer to your problem. They don’t like you. If you share the perceptions I mentioned above, that Millennials are lazy & terrible workers, you are …
So today, at 2:10pmEST Gmail went down. Yes, both my personal / business accounts went down and finally spit out a message that they are temporarily unavailable. For some people out there, it is a cause to panic, and they are justified. What to do with the spare 10 minutes of no bombarding emails coming in, I still have no …
The other day I read an article which noted the average commute around Toronto is 45 minutes long – and that’s only one way. The worst part I think about commuting into work is that after a long hard day at the office you have to do it all over again and go home. As I was pondering this statistic …
I hate buzzwords. I really do. I don’t know how many times people have asked me if our websites are ‘in the cloud’ or not. I just end up saying yes and may even throw in a quick ‘your website is cloud compatible’ for good measure. Working in the cloud for me means to be able to do what you need …
