By Marlys Fox 48 years is one heck of a long time to be anywhere! But our own COO, Steve Schwanz, is celebrating that anniversary as a ‘Fox’ this week! Steve has spent his entire professional career here—he's worked nowhere else! Actually, he also spent the summer...
In 1978, Jimmy Carter was the president, disco music was at its zenith, "Grease" was the year's most popular movie, and Andy Gibb's "Shadow Dancing" was the number-one song. That was also the year Fox Associates EVP/COO Steve Schwanz joined the Chicago-based company....
Bo Sacks, an old friend of the industry, has been publishing his Heard on the Web Newsletter daily for 33 years. He's put out three distinct issues each day for as long as I can remember. Bo is, indisputably, an industry oracle, someone who's devoted a career to...
Every morning, I scroll through Substack, LinkedIn, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, Apple News, sometimes X, and of course, my email inboxes, which mostly lead me to these and other sources. This way, I generally get the information I need for...
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...