Some #Philly #Christmas history. I had a part in a play that was staged in a grand dining hall at the #JohnWanamaker store. I played a child whose only want in life was a dog puppet for #Christmas. After the show (during which breakfast was served) the kids in the audience all got one of these little "clicker" toys and they ran around the store, click click click everywhere. Drove the store employees insane! The next year they switched to balsa wood gliders, which was also not such a good idea.

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“Nothing comes merely by thinking about it.” — John Wanamaker

When I was just starting out in my career I began collecting books that purported to show the way. We're all trying to figure out the way, aren't we? Bold titles like Unlimited Power, Maximum Achievement, The Magic of Thinking Big and Swim With the Shar
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Only Action Satiates - Alexandersmap

Success isn't a formula, it's a meandering path of figuring things out one day at a time. We aren't here to read about it, we're here to do.

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The Advertising Pyramid Scheme - Mason Pelt

The advertising economy is starting to resemble a collection of interconnected multi-level marketing schemes. Some kind of intermediary firm sits atop each pyramid brokering the serving of ads to eyeballs. Under that are ad agencies, and tech firms that work on sales and bid management. The bottom are ad buyers, perhaps too few to sustain […]

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