by Ted Rubin | Oct 31, 2026 | Featured, Marketing, Miscellaneous, Social Media/Marketing, Uncategorized
My friend and colleague Denise Holt recently shared her frustration with Facebook. After years of posting about innovation, technology, startups, and funding, and building a network of people interested in those subjects, she described watching her engagement...
by Ted Rubin | Oct 22, 2026 | Featured, Miscellaneous, Uncategorized
As Israel approaches its next election, and so many are looking toward it with “hope,” I find myself wondering how much will actually change for Palestinians, and therefore for Israelis and the global Jewish community, regardless of who becomes prime minister. I’ve...
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...