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Focus on the Customer, Not the KPI

Should a business focus on its customers, or the ROI of the strategies it implements and the KPIs their employees are responsible for monitoring and exceeding? I'm sure this is overly simplistic, and perhaps these need not be mutually exclusive, but … [Read more]

Boston National Anthem That You Won’t Forget

When humanity works together as one, we're undefeated. … [Read more]

Compendium of Spammy Blog Comments

My new ChrisReimer.com site is less than two months old, and the deluge of spammy blog comments has already begun in earnest. I don't understand spam. You see it, in all of its forms, and you think, "Well, they wouldn't be doing it if it didn't … [Read more]

We Used To

We used to sacrifice humans to appease the gods. We used to think the Earth was flat. We used to have witch hunts and we'd burn the ones we caught. We used to practice bloodletting, extracting tiny quantities of blood from a patient in order to … [Read more]

The Bud Light Blind Date Ad – Yay or Nay?

As Mark Reardon sat in front of his TV watching the first and second round of the NCAA basketball tournament, he claims to have been tormented by the spectre of the Bud Light ad you see above. He contacted me and asked what I thought of the ad, and I … [Read more]

Birth of a Meme – Why Did The Harlem Shake Take Off?

In a scant eight days, the Harlem Shake went from a song that was released in August 2012 to an crowdsourced international YouTube phenomenon. One can claim to be sick of this meme, but 1 billion YouTube views and over 300,000 versions later, I'm … [Read more]

LinkedIn Has a Sense of Humor, Doesn’t It?

Oh LinkedIn, you ask such silly questions! @rizzotees twitter.com/ErinE/status/3…— Erin E. Moloney (@ErinE) March 15, 2013 (thanks @ErinE) … [Read more]

The Harlem Shake – Discussion with Mark Reardon and Kenny Wallace

My appearances on the Mark Reardon Show on 1120AM KMOX Radio are supposed to be debates. Mark and I are supposed to disagree on something, and then we appropriately agitate each other for eight or so minutes. However, when it comes to the Harlem … [Read more]

The Power of In-Person Networking

I met Michael at the Dubliner as he was covering Mayor Slay's reelection and the resulting party for KMOX. Tonight I learned that @rizzotees is an actual person.— Michael Calhoun (@michaelcalhoun) March 6, 2013 I'm half joking, but … [Read more]

Interview with Nick Ruiz of Recycled GoGetter

I was pleased to do this nearly one hour interview with Nick Ruiz of Recycled GoGetter. Enjoy! (link to his post, in case the embedded video above does not cooperate) … [Read more]