Designing, Developing And Executing Your 2015 Content Marketing Plan

2015 is in full swing, and if you have not yet defined your marketing goals and outlined your marketing activities for the year, it’s time to get it together! These 4 articles will help you plan, organize and execute your content and inbound marketing strategy for 2015. 1. Content Marketing Institute gives you ideas and…

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3 Ways To Foster Gratitude

With Thanksgiving around the corner, it’s a great time to really think about gratitude. Gratitude is simply “the act of being grateful…” – i.e. Being grateful that you have a job, being grateful you are in a creative and supportive environment (such as Roam), being grateful you are strong and healthy, being grateful for friends…

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8 Lessons For First Job Success

So you got your first job… Now what? Just show up and do your work, right? Get there on time and stay out of the way. Everything else will fall into place. So wrong. Do this and not only will you crash and burn, you’ll be searching for your second job in no time. So…

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What Do You Do When There’s Too Much To Do?

Do you feel like there’s too much to do? I do. Since creating The Rocket Company six years ago, I wake up every day feeling like I’ll never get everything done. And just to compound the problem, every new blog or article tells you about some emerging product or theory that you just have to…

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CEO’s – Build Your Personal Brand to Boost Your Business

Are you the leader of your business? Whether you’re a one person organization or the CEO of a business with 25 employees, your personal brand matters. In the mobile Internet age, your personal branding is capable of reaching your team, your strategic partners, news organizations, and your clients as well. Building and nurturing your personal…

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What To Do When You Hate Networking

I recently sent out a survey asking young professionals what the greatest obstacles were to advancing in their career. The number one obstacle, which occurred in 89% of the survey responses, was how to network. One trend that I’ve noticed among the clients that I coach is a distaste of networking for fear of coming…

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Roam Recommends – Music for Productivity

Did you know, the soundtrack of your workday can change the quality of your work? In 1993, a study was conducted to find the differing effects of music as opposed to silence or relaxation instructions, designed to lower blood pressure. Researchers found that after listening to Mozart for 10 minutes, subjects scored 8-9 points higher…

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5 Reasons You (Yes, Even You) Need a Mentor

I spent far longer than I would like to admit brainstorming the best approach to this post. Where do I start? An anecdote? A metaphor? A crazy story? I tried a couple of those and they turned out great, but like Goldilocks I was still searching for just the right start. When dealing with leadership…

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5 Reasons Why Community Is Worth The Investment

If there were an official definition for Roam, this would be it. Invested – To use, give, or devote as for a purpose or to achieve something Community – A social group of any size whose members reside in a specific locality Community is something I crave more than many other things in life. I…

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