With Frank Lloyd Wright being such a presence in the Valley, it only made sense to drive the 15 minutes to see his Taliesin West. Well worth the time and a most enjoyable tour of a creative space. Made up of 16 stops and guided by an audio tour played through an app on your […]
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After doing a bit of research, I found this collection of murals and public art in Downtown Phoenix. Arrayed along Roosevelt Street near its intersection with Central Avenue in the heart of Downtown Phoenix, this really is a motherlode of murals. It is truly a walkable arts district. Within less than 20 minutes and a
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[Editor’s Note: this is an expansion of the “Embracing Tucson” series because the writer has traveled beyond Tucson and taken in sights and things of interest in the rest of the state. Thanks for reading.] While it isn’t listed in Atlas Obscura, the Penske Racing Museum is, nonetheless, a hidden gem in Arizona and the
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They were the anchors of neighborhoods and parts of town. If you said you lived near a specific one then your conversant probably knew about where you lived and how to get to your house. Each had its own collection of stores. Usually anchored by a grocery store and a drug store, they may have
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When my website development partner, Chris (Howay) called it was seemingly out of the blue. He had finished a website for a new client being managed by a friend and they asked him a question that made him think of me. They wanted to go to a trade show and weren’t quite sure
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They had been going to their biggest industry show for years. Really, since the company’s founding in the 1980s. But this year was different. Over the past few years, A Brite Company had been going through a transformation. Growing past their toll-blending roots in the surface finishing industry, the company developed new lines of business
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Recently I had the chance to walk the floors of three vastly different trade shows. All are good examples of different types of shows. All had ties to a specific industry but each had a different approach to how they reached their intended audiences and how they served those aforementioned industries. The shows: ASIS, aka
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Whether you are on the show floor or attending networking events, we all have to classify and then qualify those we’ve interacted with. Over my career I’ve seen many systems, but the the same rules are in place: you need to do something with the leads you’ve collected. But how? Here’s a simple system I’ve
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I was out in my driveway this morning sweeping up the collected debris of a recent storm and the process got me to thinking. There I was, using my push broom to gather the leaves and dirt into a pile. I worked my way across the concrete surface, pushing the stuff a few feet at
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Over the years I’ve attended and witnessed all manner of shows in many venues selling a variety of products and services to significantly different audiences. I can’t remember ever being at an event where the founder greeted every attendee at the door personally. So I guess I had to wait until I saw Chuck Surack
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