Greetings, Fox Associates friends and family! We hope you had a wonderful May, a celebratory Mother's Day, and enjoyed the blooming trees and flowers if you're in the parts of the country with four seasons. We're always pleased to bring you our latest crop of industry...
By Marlys Fox There's a truism in sales, and it's about building connections with your partners in ways that transcend business. All other things being equal, people like doing business with people they like. Recently, our friends at the National Guard Association of...
PWX Solutions, created as the outsource production and paper-procurement services firm PubWorX in a joint venture between the B2C magazine-media giants Hearst and Conde Nast, has evolved rapidly in 10 years. Through acquisitions, organic growth and an expansion of...
Almost exactly a year ago, we interviewed Mike Pirello, CEO of ePublishing, the provider of an integrated tech stack built specifically for the media industry. In today's media world, with a frenetic pace of change, a year is a long time indeed. Media companies are...
By Marlys Fox With all that’s going on right now in the world, in the country, and in the industry, it’s difficult for me to come up with some inspirational thoughts, so how about just a little attempt at sharing a humorous experience. Scene (recently): I call a taxi...
Fox Tales last spoke with Linda Thomas Brooks just about a year ago, and we find that every time we run into Linda at industry events, she's working on some fascinating new project. Last May, we connected with her on her work as an independent advisor for Spacely, an...
Specialized media is in what may be its most riveting era. The atmosphere is both turbulent and loaded with opportunity for those who make the right investments. There's a shift away from audience volume and scale, and towards audience identity. There's a swirl of...
One of the joys of publishing and media conferences is the chance to meet and get to know publishing entrepreneurs from a vast array of markets and topics. This is especially true at events aimed at niche interests, whether B2B, consumer, or association media....
April is undoubtedly one of the busiest travel months of the year, because it's one of the busiest conference-and-trade-show months. Here'a batch of fresh Fox Associates pics from out on the road, meeting with many of you. ...
In 2006, Marlys opened a weeklong Fox Associates fall sales meeting with a rousing speech. She compared the team to warriors, fighting not in the lethal realm of guns and tanks, but instead, in the battles of business. We recently came across that 20-year-old speech....