Archives for December, 2008

No One Makes it Alone – NO ONE.

Posted by admin on Sunday, December 28, 2008 at 1:58 pm. 3 Comments.

Reading Gladwell‘s book Outliers, and this quote grabbed my attention. He’d had to make his way alone, and no one — not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses — ever makes it alone. I have always disliked the phrase “self made man” because in my experience I have never [...]

Filed under Business, Leadership.

New Orleans River Boat in the Morning

Posted by eschipul on Wednesday, December 24, 2008 at 1:17 pm. Comments are off.

Merry Christmas Eve y’all.

Filed under Photography, , , .

In Defense of a Personal Brand – I Rename this Blog

Posted by admin on Monday, December 22, 2008 at 6:16 pm. 6 Comments.

Technically I specialize in online marketing. Hence the name of our firm is Schipul – The Web Marketing Company. So it is funny that I am just now (finally?) updating my blog away from www.brandtobedetermined.com to eschipul.com to be consistent with my current personal brand. It is funny, but it is not without precedent. I [...]

Filed under Branding.