Hot Diggity dog | Weekly Report for July 2, 2021
America will celebrate its 245th Birthday on Sunday. We’ve come a long way baby, but surprisingly the celebrations for this Fourth will be similar to that first big birthday party held…
A Note To Recent Grads | Weekly Report for June 25, 2021
This week’s guest writer for the Weekly Report is Client Services Manager Katie Rossberg, a 2016 graduate of Randolph-Macon College. So, you’ve woken up the day after your college graduation, still buzzing…
Director of First Impressions | Weekly Report for June 18, 2021
I’ll never forget the first time I met Janice Cadmus, the longtime receptionist at CowanGates. I arrived a few minutes late for a meeting with the firm’s legendary founder Frank Cowan. Frank and I knew…
Is Your “Elevator Pitch” Letting You Down? | Weekly Report for June 11, 2021
There are no less than four different versions of the story behind who created the “Elevator Pitch.” -The earliest version says that Elisha Otis (of Otis Elevator fame) created a public demonstration of…
What Exactly Is A Millennial? | Weekly Report for June 04, 2021
The Greatest Generation had a name that was, wait for it, great. Baby Boomers and Generation X had names that were easily remembered and identifiable. But what is up with the Millennial Generation? We call them lots of names: Gen Y, Gen…