Category: 2025 Parrish Ticer Blog Post
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Writing is a crucial component for success.
Spring has sprung – that’s a wrap on Q1 2025. The last three months have felt like 10 lifetimes. Not much happening out there these days, huh? 🙂 I won…
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Practice is not just a routine; it’s the key to mastering any skill.
There are no shortcuts to success. I know this because I’ve pioneered taking detours (primarily for fun), but those alternate routes to success take longer and sometimes require driving backward.…
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Advocating for Change.
When I started in Corporate Communications at Datapoint in 1991, we were a newly assembled team looking to make our mark. Our office was in the corner of a two-story…
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Listening is a skill that has to be practiced.
It was a long walk down a short hallway to meet with my boss. I was terrified and uneasy about my decision, but I was committed to going through with…
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Stepping out of your comfort zone.
“Are you wearing the same clothes you wore yesterday?” Maggie had taken until the afternoon to ask the question, but I knew she was thinking that from her puzzled gaze…
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How to handle constructive feedback, otherwise known as criticism.
“The one with the holes in it sucks.” That was the first comment of my first stand-up critique in Lettering Design 101 at Southwest Texas State University. That comment, however…
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One way to prioritize the urgentness of your day.
We all have had that feeling. You are in the groove, in the flow state, and having a productive start to your day. Then you get the “bing” on your…
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Getting laid off is a winning proposition.
Imagine the shock when the entire corporate communications staff, except for me, was let go. Management told me to pack up and move out of our corner offices, which had…
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Baseball is a lot like the communication business.
How many times have we, as professionals in the communication and marketing fields, sent a finished, wholly proofed top to bottom, printed, produced, distributed, or emailed a piece of collateral…
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It’s always the little things.
If you are like me, you like to start the new year with a fresh perspective. Oftentimes, the best way to find this new perspective is to challenge myself physically.…
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What makes some words sticky?
We rushed to the front as the lights dropped, Garrett (4) on my shoulders, Brody (7 ) hauled between Elena and me as Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros reached…
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Strive to be memorable.
Carlos and I were walking into a Chamber breakfast one morning, hawking our business, Swirl, and doing our usual scouting of where to sit – we intentionally split up –…
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They named it Rush, which is a good thing in my book.
Create motion graphics in a snap with Adobe Premiere Rush. It doesn’t suck that they named it “Rush,” either. If you cut your teeth on web design in the early…
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Will Generative AI continue to bludgeon us to death with slop?
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any weirder on the internet, Facebook released disturbing and hilarious AI profiles. After the expected backlash, our overlords at Meta pulled the release…
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A book that changed my perspective last year.
When you stumble upon a book with handwritten notes and highlights, it’s like stumbling upon a stranger’s journal. You can’t help but feel a sense of intimacy, as if you’ve…
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A new company built on solid fundamentals needed a strong identity system.
After three plus decades in the wealth management business, Glen Welch needed a logo for his new business venture. Welch Wealth Management was created as a way to help clients…
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PLSTIC GRSS: Re-using Remnants
I came home one day and discovered the contractors next door were wrapping up a putting green install at my neighbor’s house. I introduced myself and told one of the…