by matthewcharlesdavis@gmail.com | Dec 31, 2024 | Thoughts You Can Use
This New Year, I’ll be killing Nazis. Not in real life but in the videogame Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, which came out a week ago. Because Donald Trump got elected and I’d like to do something that feels more satisfying for a month or two. The...
by matthewcharlesdavis@gmail.com | Dec 16, 2024 | Thoughts You Can Use
Last week as I was suggesting ways you can use up your marketing budget by the end of the year I suggested “lunch with me.” The newsletter brought a host of questions from readers, including, “did anyone take you up on it?” Yes! They did!...
by matthewcharlesdavis@gmail.com | Dec 10, 2024 | Thoughts You Can Use
If you’re a leader with a public relations, strategic communications or marketing budget burning a hole in your pocket, let’s talk. Obviously, this is a self-serving piece of advice, but it turns out I could be doing us both a favor. Most organizations...
by matthewcharlesdavis@gmail.com | Dec 3, 2024 | Thoughts You Can Use
Recently I helped a nonprofit steer through some unwanted attention. A Murdoch-owned newspaper had gotten hold of an angle on something tangential. This tangential thing has little to do with the nonprofit’s mission and values. But the nonprofit does bear some...
by matthewcharlesdavis@gmail.com | Nov 26, 2024 | Thoughts You Can Use
I went to Costco last night with my father-in-law. Turkeys in there are 99 cents a pound and we picked a twenty-pounder. We’re in Norfolk, Virginia, where it’s been a tough year. My wife lost her mother in July — to pancreatic cancer, which I would say is not a death...
