Entrepreneurs: Stop Renting Attention – Start Owning Customers

Entrepreneur Owning Audience

Most entrepreneurs are building businesses they don’t actually control. Number 1 marketing tip today: Build and own your audience.

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2025 Christmas Parade – Lake Placid, Florida

2025 Christmas Parade - Lake Placid, Florida.

Started off with the high school JROTC! Go Dragons!

Nothing better than small-town USA.

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Documentary Film Underway – Anniversary of Lake Placid School

The original Lake Placid Grade 1-12 School in 1925.

Lake Placid (FL) School was built and classes started in the new building in 1925. Grades 1 through 12 were taught. I’m doing a documentary film of the history of the building and about some of the students, teachers, and administrators from over the years. Production started this week.

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Sebring in the Spotlight with HGTV Hometown Makeover

Historic Downtown Sebring

HOME TOWN TAKEOVER ANNOUNCES 6 EPISODES FOR SEBRING MAKEOVER starting on March 9.

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James Patterson Inspires as Commencement Speaker at UF Graduation

R. Michael Brown, Writer | Producer: Multimedia Portfolio - James Patterson

R. Michael Brown, Writer | Producer: Multimedia Portfolio – James Patterson, a Civic Association Director, is a literacy advocate, bestselling author, and founder of the PBS series ‘Kid Stew,’ who has sold more than 375 million books worldwide in his career. Mr. Patterson gave the commencement address at the University of Florida in 2019.

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The First Blogs and Bloggers?

Blogs are considered to be a relatively new phenomenon in the last 20 years.  But are they? In the 1500’s through the 1800’s, Ben Franklin, Samuel Sewell, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Paine, Adam Smith, and many others published what were called pamphlets – short small booklets with their news, ideas, and opinions (their content) about contemporary […]

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