Christina A. Metcalf

Oct 24, 2024 | gluckstadtba.com | Adam Horlock |Elizabeth Tyler |Christina A. Metcalf

Unfortunately, too many businesses believe they have no budget for marketing, don't believe it would help, or assume that having a good location or the right employees is a better option than marketing. Furthermore, too many think marketing and advertising are the same thing. This thinking contains multiple mistakes that will snowball into terrible outcomes for their revenue.

Sep 27, 2024 | medium.com | Christina A. Metcalf

Christina Metcalf·Follow3 min read·--Most of the time we run. But this storm seemed so far away. A funny look at a not so funny situation. We’ve all seen pictures of the horrific aftermath of terrible storms but this is the part you don’t see on camera. There will be dead fish and frogs and possibly sea snakes in numbers that will make you think of the Bible stories you were told as a child. Those nasty things will somehow have found a way into your living room before they died.

May 26, 2024 | medium.com | Christina A. Metcalf

By Christina Metcalf would you do this? Photo by Simon Daoudi on Unsplash If I had a billion dollars, in addition to the do-gooder stuff/donations, I would hire people. Random people. People who would allow me to follow them in their lives, not in a creepy way, but one that would help me understand their struggles, joys, routines, and knowledge.

May 20, 2024 | medium.com | Christina A. Metcalf

By Christina Metcalf Gen Xers, forget the Breakfast Club. We're now part of early bird dinners. Photo credit: author (taken at Gen X Tavern in Tampa) Age is but a number. But it wasn't until this year that I started feeling it. And my fellow Gen Xers, it feels like a bad prequel for things to come. It's okay. We've sat through worse (like all those terrible remakes of our classic movies.)

May 17, 2024 | medium.com | Christina A. Metcalf

Remember what you hated? Do you still? I pulled a faded newspaper article out of my cedar chest the other day. It was a piece written about my high school swim team. The Bad News Bears of the natatorium had experienced a pretty good year and the local paper must have been in desperate need of a feel-good story. I gazed at the girls, drenched from a grueling swim practice. Who thought after practice would be a good time...