My Mantra For 2019

The road is never straight but filled with many turns, hills and signs. Complacency is deadly. The approach and mindset is what will make the drive more successful. The key to this success is confidence. The more you have the more successful you will be and challenges will be easier to nagitate. Preparation and planning will be essential tasks.

This uear I am dedicated to "The Big C". Confidence is powerful, addicting and contaigious.



Michael Newhouse
WCN group
wcngroup@gmail.com

My Mantra For 2018

"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a seriers of small things broght together. And great things are not someting accidental, but must certainly be willed", Vincent Van Gogh quote.

Michael Newhouse
WCN group
wcngroup@gmail.com

Climate Change Is A Long Play Game

Climate change is a hotly debated subject in public, policital and business forums. What can't be denied is the fact that businesses are affected directly. Businesses will experience an economic impact that will challenge their resolve to be fiscually creative. In a recent article, Tom Murray describes the siutation brilliantly, "Leadership on climate and energy is driven by long term economics, not short-term politics.

Michael Newhouse
WCN group
wcngroup@gmail.com

Enjoying My Marketing Brain

Lately I have needed to dive into my marketing brain and develop some new strategies. Yes, it's part of my role as the director of marketing and ecommerce sales but a good majority of my time has been on the sales role. As my sales role expands, the percentage of time allotted for marketing activities as dwindled.

Marketing is my first love. Ever changing, always challenging but never dull. Don't get me wrong, I love the deal and closing the sale but it requires marketing to draw the deal to the table.

My brain on marketing.

Michael Newhouse
WCN group
wcngroup@gmail.com

Google Plus Stuns With New Logo

The news has been bleak for Google Plus lately with the ever threatening possibility of closing it down but yet they come out with this stunning new logo design. Simple, sleek but yet fun. Here's to hoping Google Plus does not go away.

New Google Plus Logo Design 2015

Michael Newhouse
WCN group
wcngroup@gmail.com

Pretty Doesn't Always Win In Web Design

Web design is on constant motion. Websites need to be fluid, conversive and resolving. What we as consumers require is an experience that resolves are immediate needs. A top web design and development professional Martin May explains design in Darwinian terms the fine line between beauty and success (of the website). My favorite take-away from the article, Darwin and the art of webdesign:

So natural selection, as applied to web design, can help you to think about your approach to designing websites and result in your site being successful, or not, in the environment it sits within.

Pretty Doesn't Always Win. Michael C, Newhouse

Michael Newhouse
WCN group
wcngroup@gmail.com

The Number #1 Social Media Fail

Has this happened to you? Your surfing the web or you followed a link to a brand's website interested in finding out more information and to possibly buy something. You get to the site and start scrolling around then you want to check on their social media channels and BAM it happens. The link opens in the same window browser or better yet it's a broken link.

When your link opens in the same window browser the visitor has now entered in to the social media black hole. Once in the black hole the amount of distractions are to enticing for even the most diligent of folks. 

Social Media Black Hole

You had one chance to convert this potential customer and now they're gone. Correct this social media fail immediately.