October 2011

On Marketing, Writing and Permission: Chatting With Seth Godin

Editor’s note: This interview was originally published in April 2009 Seth Godin needs little introduction. He popularized the topic of permission marketing; his numerous best-selling books, including Permission Marketing: Turning Strangers into Friends, and Friends Into Customers, Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable and most recent release Tribes: We Need You to Lead [...]

October 14, 2011 CONTINUE READING →

Inside the Writer’s Mind: Interview with Frank Sennett, Editor-in-Chief, Time Out Chicago

Probably 90% of you have either heard of or subscribe to Time Out. For those of you new to the scene, I’ll sum up: it covers the latest happenings in over 30 cities from New York to Sydney to Bucharest and its simply brilliant, digestible morsels of curated local activity suggestions can make any music/theatre/art [...]

October 11, 2011 CONTINUE READING →

Book Review: A Little History Of The World (and The Hot Dog Incident)

If I had only found this book in high school – and had been fluent in German at 15 – I would have been a lot smarter in history class, particularly when I was forced to stay studying at home as a result of the infamous “Hot Dog Incident” of 1990. When I was 15, [...]

October 8, 2011 CONTINUE READING →