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Remember how I asked if kids shouldn’t go to college? Well, there’s a guy named Peter Thiel who is actually paying kids to do exactly that...

Image via Wikipedia What happens when a quiet North Dakota town (pop. 1300) becomes the center of a 21st century oil boom? That’s t...

Image via Wikipedia Saw a great documentary ( An Inconvenient Tax ) about the way our tax system has been perverted and the inequalit...

Perhaps the best thing about kids is the opportunity they present you to r ediscover the world anew. Thanks to the kindness of our good fr...

I know the perception is that “most Americans can’t find _____ on a map.” In this video , Nadia (3.9 years old) demonstrates how she is de...

One of the concepts I want my kids to have is that to be an effective marketer, you need to understand how much value the customer places on...

Image by Getty Images via @daylife After the NFC and AFC Championship games, Paco asked me if he could watch the Super Bowl. I tol...

Well, it is still early in the process and it IS winter (full of cloudy days and some snow), but it IS working and, in my mind, that’s ...

Image via Wikipedia So, there’s a chain of yogurt shops in southern Virginia called SweetFROG. I innocently went in to ask if they ...

One of the things we want our kids to have is an appreciation of the sacrifices that others have made for freedom. We stopped at Frederi...

Along the road south during our vacation, the NFO and I were teaching the kids new vocabulary words. I don’t know why, but I some point, ...

Image via CrunchBase One of the things that I couldn’t reconcile was whether or not it was ultimately a good thing or not to have our...

One trick I’ve picked up in trying to get people talking is to ask yourself “what kind of extreme situation would this person know about tha...

When you share a room with your kids for a few nights on a family vacation, you get to see some little things that you might otherwise miss…...

Of the 3 days on our winter vacation and the numerous places we visited, the NFO and I thought that the one which gave our kids the best se...

Cover via Amazon I wrote about how I was afraid of making bad purchases on my Kindle . No more. They have a super smart and GREAT...

You may recall that one of the areas I was trying to work on with Tonka was to help her get over what I considered to be an unacceptably hig...

We took the kids to southern Virginia (Williamsburg, Jamestown, and Charlottesville) during the Winter Break and though we had taken them on...

Image via Wikipedia The NFO goes EVERY single week to the Costco in Beltsville, MD. It is located on Maryland Route 1 about 1.5 miles...

When I started Never Stop Marketing about 3.5 years ago my intention was to create a beautiful link between the type of marketer I wante...