Art...is the intentional act of using your humanity to create a change in another person...Passion is caring enough about your art that you will do almost anything to give it away, to make it a gift, to change people.

Sure, compare. But compare the things that matter to the journey you're on. The rest is noise.

It's entirely possible that there won't be a standing ovation at the end of your journey. That's okay. At least you lived.

Marketers have to move upstream now. We have to stop being the last step in the process and start being the first step.

Go ahead and act as if your decisions are temporary. Because they are. Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn't work. No sweat, no need to hyperventilate.

Blaming the system is soothing because it lets you off the hook. But when the system is broken, we wonder why you were relying in the system in the first place.

Conversations among the members of your marketplace happen whether you like it or not. Good marketing encourages the right sort of conversations.