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Growth.
The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is today. An Ancient Chinese Proverb, simultaneously telling us it’s never too late and, “Wow, you’re really late.” But isn’t this the truth about growth, or change. You’re always late until that moment when you [...]
A lesson in brevity
Sometimes you can say more with fewer words. Following is a recent post made by my friend, a middle school science teacher. Student: “I’m going to miss class tomorrow, I have to go to a violin thing.” Teacher: “Ok, thanks for telling me.” Student: Starts to leave and turns back, [...]
Google Glass and Me
I’m not someone who is normally considered an early adopter of new technology. Technology and I have a sort of mutual respect for each other, meaning we, (or more accurately, I) keep a respectable distance until new and technical becomes easy and less complicated, mainstream with most of the bugs [...]
Putting PowerPoint On A Stage
by Maureen Dyvig, partner at d.trio PowerPoint. We love it. We hate it. We love to hate it...especially when it makes that occasional font size, bullet shape or spacing decisions for us. Most of us, however, rely upon it to help us in a multitude of expressions. We sit in [...]
From Fresh to Outrageous
Our word for the month of May is Outrageous and I have to say, we’re all pretty excited about this word and have some fun ideas lined up to represent it. Last month our word was Fresh as we were thinking April...Spring...Fresh...right? However, April brought more snow than showers but [...]
Fresh as the new driven snow.
(Writer’s note: This was written last week but due to some complications not posted. Who knew it would still be appropriate today April 19th with yet another fresh round 4-12 inches of snow in Minnesota.) It’s April 11th in Minnesota and we are in the grips of a very unfair [...]
Your attention please
Welcome to March. Not the most popular month on the calendar but March at least does hold the promise, (or sometimes broken promise) of Spring. March also hosts the madness of thousands of basketball games, and if you live in Minnesota, the threat of at least one huge snow storm [...]
Once upon a time…
by Maureen Dyvig Ok, I’ve been trying to think of a way to say this without dating myself but it’s nearly impossible, so here goes. After graduating high school, I spent the summer in Europe with a friend and when we returned home we had a total of 12 cents [...]
Marketing to Affluents: Savings Appeal
by Maureen Dyvig In volatile economic times, most consumers tighten their belts and make better-informed shopping choices, especially when it comes to luxury items. An interesting side effect of the recent economic recovery has been affluent consumers’ new focus on value. Deal-seeking is now a trendy activity among all socio-economic [...]
