Frank Lloyd Wright complained that after he became famous as an architect, “normal” people wouldn’t approach him with design commissions—they assumed they could never afford his help, which wasn’t quite true. For a creative studio, this proved...
If you died tomorrow, how long before your marketing agency goes out of business? Learning from Ali, the driving school owner My high school didn’t offer the “behind the wheel” portion of Driver’s Ed. To avoid the stress, my parents decided to...
I recently rented a self-storage unit. Chatting with Tracye, the manager, I learned she was heading on a week-long, all-expenses-paid trip to California. I asked the occasion—turns out she was selected as one of the top 10 employees nationwide, out of 4,000+...
This is an excerpt from my eBook on client expectations management: Don’t Just Make the Logo Bigger: Taking Clients from Painful to Profitable. Want your own free copy? Sign up for the Sakas & Company email newsletter and get a PDF copy, instantly. Maybe...
Early in my career—after I kept offering suggestions about how my employer could do things better—my boss pulled me aside and said, “Just because you’re helping row the ship doesn’t mean you get to steer.” A blunt comment on his part, but...
