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We all have heard of the old adage “a picture is worth a thousand words”, right? Well in the present day world, pictures are not the only forms of communication that make humans think and feel something. In our everyday lives, we find all kinds of ways to connect ourselves to the world around us. That means more avenues to tether ourselves to mainstream culture and relating it to our personal lives.
That’s why this blog is geared around our collective connections to pop culture (sports, entertainment, tennis shoes, movies, music, etc.) and how they can tie back into our personal lives, or in this case, how culture ties into business as a whole and how it can relate to your own company.This blog is going to be filled with examples of characters, both real and fictional, and their journeys navigating the sometimes treacherous corporate world. These stories will be going over the mundane turned comical (Office Space) to the eternally changing world of social media and its impact on future generations (YouTube vloggers). Indeed, business and pop culture have found multiple ways to intertwine themselves over the decades — do you think Air Jordans are popular by accident? Each story or anecdotal tale has a foundational core of a protagonist or protagonists striving to make money at the end of the day, and hopefully changing the world for the better.
While each post on this blog will tell a different event from industries as disparate as the NFL to the dry deserts of northern Nevada, they all share a common thread of stories offering a distinct glimpse into how their business functions and how it can change over time. For each post I will be going over a new tale and how it can potentially relate back to your business in terms of lessons learned and things to say and do. Plus who doesn’t like talking about sports and music? For every entertainer or superstar athlete, there is a story behind them and how they developed their business. There are also the events of everyday people and how their lives are typically connected to their business for better and possibly for worse.
It seems as though everyone is connected to some sort of social media platform whether it be your eccentric aunt on Facebook or a former classmate from middle school finding YouTube fame. All of these individuals are attached to an outlet that brings them closer to the collective consciousness of the culture around them. Indeed even those stories can add value to a business owner’s next great grassroots marketing plan or a new strategy to help grow a certain demographic. Maybe you will find some useful pieces of information in this blog or a new tactic to apply in your business. Hopefully you’ll run across some topics you’ve never heard of before or just a post to kill some time while you are in the airport.
Regardless, thank you for coming and visiting my blog and I hope you enjoy the posts inside.
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