Fences

When I was young, I needed help to get over them….I didn’t always want, but needed it. When I was a teen, they were challenges, keeping me from having fun, hiding the places I wanted to explore. When I had … Continue reading

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My Life…

Sometimes being a business owner is very rewarding, and not just financially. Seeing your employees, many whom I call friends, mature in their rolls within the company is great. Watching as their careers progress, whether inside or outside of Fat … Continue reading

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A sketch…of geese.

While up in Canada last month, my friend, and client, let us stay at their private fishing reserve. While there, I sketched this with colored pencils and left it in their guest book. If you ever want a VIP fishing … Continue reading

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Quotes From A Summer Intern

Brenden Martenson , a summer marketing Intern at Fat Atom accumulated a bunch of my quotes and sent them back to me on his last day…cudos to you young man…a job well done. And now for your reading enjoyment…quotes from … Continue reading

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Another Lesson From the Hand Dryer…

Today, like most days, I went to the bathroom at the office. Since we went “green” a little over a 6 months ago, sometimes I find not having paper towels or something similar can get annoying. So instead of being … Continue reading

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Another Lesson From the Hand Dryer….

Washing my hands today I noticed something. When the electricians installed my hand dryer over six months ago, the scraped the wall by the outlet. A minor paint chip no bigger than half a tic tac in size; caused I … Continue reading

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RSS – How it can kill you…

So I really started getting into RSS, or Real Simple Syndication for everyone who cares. I am using Google Reader as my foundation with Reeder(in beta) on top of it, which BTW, has a great iPhone app that works like … Continue reading

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How Many Pumps Does It Really Take?

Mr. Romantic bought his wife a shower caddy for her birthday about 4 years ago. I thought this would be a great gift; it brought organization and conservation all into a nice plastic unit that attaches to your bathroom wall. … Continue reading

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“Not because you can, but because you have a plan.”

— I created this quote based on the my frustration with business owners inability to create, implement and measure a plan when it comes to social media and internet marketing.

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Things I Learned At Our Hand Dryer

About five months ago, I decided to take our office off of Bounty dependence and “go green”. To the Internet I went and one week later, I had two hand dryers delivered and then within another week, both where installed … Continue reading

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