As many of you may know, when I founded Knock Knock, in 2002, there wasn’t much out there that was smart and funny. Corporate homogenization and lowest-common-denominator pandering ruled the shelves. I was proud and honored that Knock Knock was able to change this within the gift and stationery industry, and we’ve had a good long run of success with …
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TEDActive: Intellectual Amusement Park for Grownups Head Honcho Does Palm Springs
Yours truly with the world’s largest nametag, also known as “the license plate.” Bonus? You can’t forget to take it off.
During the week of February 25, I was lucky enough to attend the TEDActive conference. I’ve been a fan of TED Talks since I first saw them on my very first Virgin American flight (both things were great improvements in my life), and I’d heard of TED for five or so years before that, but it sounded like kind of …
Pet Peeves, Reasons to Panic, and WTF Head Honcho Hello for March
I lust after this man. Unfortunately, he’s dead. Meet my lover, William James.
For the monthly Head Honcho Hello, which I know all of you have marked on your calendars to read, I am usually tasked with coming up with my own topics. For this one, however, our gloriously brilliant and beautiful digital and marketing coordinator, Melanie Gasmen, had a couple suggestions of topics to tie in with upcoming outreach efforts: Pet peeves …
The Tradeshow Circuit Head Honcho Hello for February 2013
Black and white, upper left picture, left to right: Mel Gasmen, our genius digital and marketing coordinator; me; Sara Hartman, our savvy ecommmerce manager; Trish Abbot, the indispensable VP of brand development. Color picture: Jim Papscoe, our president, joins us, looking oddly like one of the Village People.
I write this month’s Head Honcho Hello from my Times Square hotel room on a break from one of the three tradeshows for which Knock Knock mounts its own booth, the Spring New York International Gift Fair (NYIGF). I must say that at this point in my career it is more fun to write about tradeshows in a hotel bed …
New Year, New You, Old Me! Head Honcho Hello for January 2013
A few years ago, my cousin and I threw a party founded on truth and self-awareness. This was part of the invite.
Happy 2013, friends, loved ones, and others! I wish I could say that I’d stayed up until midnight last night. My New Year’s Eve gang and I had all caveated our get-together by saying we weren’t sure we’d make it to 12:00 a.m. At a certain point in the evening, I yawned and determined it felt really, really late, so …