Catalyst Ranch’s
Creative Juice Blog
Interview with Brendan Sullivan and Rick Kaempfer on their new book, The Living Wills What prompted you to write the book as a collaborative novel? Rick: Actually, this book was Brendan’s idea. He called me up one day and asked me to lunch. He had read my previous novel and thought that we had similar [...]
November 7th marked the Catalyst Ranch 9th anniversary and we celebrated with a fantastic party filled with clients, family and friends. iluvphoto provided lovely shots of our revelry and those photos can be seen on our website. There was delicious food, a giant birthday cake, specialty cocktails and, of course, party games; but not just any [...]
Lauren Young Pour – Marketing Success Starts with the Right Ingredients What are some of the main themes of your book? I’m so excited to offer a low-cost option to share my expertise and marketing secrets with a variety of potential business owners. Pour was written to showcase the correct way to build a brand [...]
We are very lucky to meet some cool people at the Ranch and equally lucky that they let us profile them every now and again. You can check out some of those videos here. Often a lot of fun and humorous tidbits end up on the cutting room floor. Our new friends, Rick and Susan Riddering [...]
Chicago Ideas Week kicked off on Monday with Labs, Talks, MegaTalks and Partner Programs. I attended one of the talks that was held at the Chicago History Museum by some of Chicago’s innovators and explorers in Architecture. Blair Kamin, Architecture Critic for the Chicago Tribune and author of Why Architecture Matters: Lessons from Chicago, hosted [...]
Madeleine VanHecke, Lisa Callahan & Brad Kolar "The Brain Advantage: Become a More Effective Business Leader Using the Latest Brain Research" What are some of the main themes of your book? An overarching theme of the book is that the interactions between our brains and our conscious selves is opposite of what many people believe. More often [...]
Stella Fayman, co-producer of Ignite Chicago shares some insights with us on ideation and what really sparks her interest in creativity! Ignite Chicago is next Wednesday the 23rd of March, and we can hardly wait! Get in on the discussion and RSVP for an evening of presentations aimed to inspire and spark discussion. Ignite Chicago is a high-energy evening of [...]
Tim Frick Return on Engagement: Content, Strategy and Design Techniques for Digital Marketing What are some of the main themes of your book? Love, betrayal, mortality...just kidding. Return on Engagement is a book about best practices for marketing yourself or your business online. It covers strategy, your website, social media, analytics, and other tools and techniques [...]
I am sitting here trying to think up a name for a new product. It is funny that while I have performed this act a hundred times before --- never has an idea come while sitting down, looking at a blank page waiting for the name to just show up. I just isn’t going to happen [...]