by Ted Rubin | Oct 15, 2026 | Featured, Marketing, Miscellaneous, Social Media/Marketing, Uncategorized
I’ve been talking about RETURN ON RELATIONSHIP, or RonR, for many years, and something I’ve come to realize is that the very phrase can sometimes lead people to misunderstand what I mean. When we hear the word “return,” especially in business,...
by Ted Rubin | Oct 10, 2026 | Featured, Miscellaneous, Uncategorized
I recently came across these words from Robert Rosenthal, and they stopped me because, whether someone agrees with every word or not, they capture much of where my thinking has arrived after years of questioning what I was taught, listening to others, reading,...
by Ted Rubin | Oct 3, 2026 | Featured, Miscellaneous, Social Media/Marketing, Uncategorized
My friend and former business partner John Andrews posted about my recent visit to Hickory, North Carolina. We built a company together back in the Collective Bias days, and I stop at John and Shannon’s house on both the northbound and southbound legs of my annual...
by Ted Rubin | Sep 25, 2026 | Featured, Marketing, Miscellaneous, Uncategorized
I’ve been thinking about why I admire Mayor Zohran Mamdani, especially because admiration in politics too often gets confused with agreement. So let me start there. It isn’t because I expect to agree with every policy he proposes. I don’t believe we should expect that...
by Ted Rubin | Sep 18, 2026 | Featured, Miscellaneous, Uncategorized
If you’ve ever had someone in your circle who brings you back to your center, who sees your blind spots, challenges the stories you tell yourself, and somehow reignites your fire when it begins to dim, you know how rare that relationship is. We all appreciate the...
