by heatherdevaun | Nov 8, 2021 | Business & Product
Spoiler alerts: I’ve been waiting *months* to make sure all of my favorite Duttons survived. The anticipation was real. I might be a little too invested in the life and/or death of a not-real family but I’m gonna forgive myself for that; I have my reasons...
by heatherdevaun | Nov 7, 2021 | Business & Product, Business advice from a dog
I am definitely in charge of my two dogs. Aren’t I? I mean I’m the one with thumbs here. So how is it that these thumbs are somehow compelled to do things like open doors, dispense treats, food, and water, and scratch behind ears on command and on...
by heatherdevaun | Nov 7, 2021 | Place Going & Thing Doing
I can’t adequately express the peace and beauty of the sun rising behind Angkor Wat…feeling the humidity of the jungle and soaking in the ancientness of the buildings, watching as the sun crept up behind them and turned the murky shadows into intricate...
by heatherdevaun | Oct 29, 2021 | Business & Product, CROP
One of the five P’s in the Profit (or Pivot) optimization phase of CROP is perspective. Do we have the right perspective on the situation? Our perspective is our view on a situation, and it gives us a framework for interpretation and decision-making. It...
by heatherdevaun | Oct 28, 2021 | Business & Product, Business advice from a dog
Puppies are exhausting. They need so much love and training and constant attention, and yet I love them. I can’t foster any more puppies because I just fall in love with them and I have a hard time giving them over to someone else…and there’s only so...
by heatherdevaun | Oct 21, 2021 | Business & Product, CROP
The Marketing Mix is rooted in a time when the sale of physical retail goods dominated the markets. In fact they were the markets because the Internet didn’t exist when the Marketing Mix was conceived. So that’s the paradigm it was framed in. As such, four...
by heatherdevaun | Oct 21, 2021 | Business & Product, CROP
I did not like my Chemistry class in High School. In hindsight, it should have been fun. As an adult, I think I would love it. But for me, at the time, it was too much about theory and memorizing formulas and not enough blowing stuff up. I think education has evolved...
by heatherdevaun | Oct 19, 2021 | Business & Product, CROP
The final area of focus in the CROP model is Profit…or Pivot. How I came across 5 P’s for this area is a bit of a long story involving a layover in New York, watching a random hotel TV interview, and a lot of subsequent experience so I’ll cut to the...
by heatherdevaun | Oct 19, 2021 | Place Going & Thing Doing
I sat on the banks of the Danube River and thought about my life. I remembered hearing about the Danube River and learning a song about it in my Junior High School German class and now here I was feeling the breeze off its flowing water. It was evening, and I watched...
by heatherdevaun | Oct 18, 2021 | Place Going & Thing Doing
On the side of a building in the Alhambra there’s a quote from Francisco de Icaza. It translates to “Give him alms, woman, for there is nothing in life like the pain of being blind in Granada.” Truly, Granada is spectacular. It’s one of my...
