GLUT BLOCK

I was pointedly forewarned that writing a blog requires a tremendous time commitment and discipline. Admittedly I have the first one and less of the latter. Discipline has never been my strong suit. Perseverance yes. Discipline no.

This bit of introspection notwithstanding, lack of discipline is not totally what has kept me from posting to the blog since June. The real bane of my reticence is that there is so much to write about. I have caught a case of “glut block.”

“Growing Pains” (GP) mostly is about the marketing/advertising world. Something I know a lot about. Trouble is a glut of change is gripping the marketing world. It’s getting difficult to decipher the hype and the mixed messages of a world moving at warp speed so as to deliver a cogent commentary. There’s just too much to talk about.

In my file I have started 18 different blog postings. I counted them. Almost all are observations in one way or another that mark a rudderless marketing ship tossed by the seas of change, the winds of new media fads and technology navigation mistakes. The marketing world has…well…jumped ship.

In not so future postings, I will get back into the swim of things (OK…I’ll stop trying to be puny) with observations that hopefully will spur you to dialogue on (here we go again) the state of the marketing ships of state.’’

Now I've got to get a gut check on my glut block.

I’m outa here …until next time.