My summers as a kid seemed to be endless. The days stretched long into the evening after the sun went down. The neighborhood  was full of parents on aluminum webbed beach chairs smoking cigarettes and drinking a beer and kids engaged in games of stoop ball and hopscotch on boards designed on concrete with colored […]

There I was, huddled under my blue striped umbrella, covered in sunscreen,  not sure why I did not pack it up and call it a weekend. It was too hot. Even in the shade. Even for me. Blistering hot. The only breeze was a warm one. But I didn’t, because this is where I wanted […]

In my early days of radio sales, the range of our client base went from a downtown advertising agency a la Mad Men to a suburban used car dealership on the fringes of where our signal reached. How you approached each client shifted from the way you spoke to what you wore to the appointment. […]

Dana Ostomel is the Chief Gifting Officer for Deposit a Gift, an online cash gift registry site. This innovative new web based business takes the concept of a bridal registry and expands it to almost any event. Dana left the Corporate world in late 2007 after nearly a decade developing integrated marketing solutions for major brands  including […]