Lots of good moments here…I think my favorite is the screaming strawberries!

Burger King served its first Whopper in 1957. It sold for 37 cents.

This month, the Rojas Ford Fine Art Gallery in Coral Gables, FL is featuring art from our Mexican collection. The initial evening event brought in a sophisticated crowd.

An electric razor in the USA buzzes in the key of B flat; in England, it is in the key of G.

I didn’t know Anthony Hopkins was a composer. I don’t know much about waltzes. I’m sure there are some that would criticize this one, but to me it’s pretty impressive. The audience seems to enjoy it. It could catch on. Imagine – this artistic effort of his could be alive in the culture 100 years from now, after his movies are forgotten.

1% of US households own 34.6% of all privately held wealth and 42.7% of all financial wealth. But they also pay 38% of all income taxes.

These ladies are quite competitive foursome as they perform “Summer” by Antonio Vivaldi…

If you or someone you know is a fledgling copywriter (or wants to be), here are some facts to think about:

* The industry is huge – $2.3 trillion by some estimates. That’s almost twice as much as the finance industry.

* Job growth for copywriters is on the rise, running neck-and-neck with massive industries like customer service.

* Almost 94% of business owners plan to increase or maintain their budgets for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) this year. And 81% will be outsourcing – a great opportunity for freelance SEO writers.

* With almost 3 billion active users, social media writing has become the heart of almost every business plan. And according to research company eMarketer, we’re less than a year away from the moment when the marketing budget for social media alone will exceed current spending levels on TV.

* Companies that are looking for web copywriters are looking to spend $335 billion this year on content, video scripts, and copy.

* The 5.7 million B2B companies in the US are increasing their budgets for marketing. In 2018, they spent $4.6 billion, a jump from $4.07 billion in 2017 – and a major chunk goes to copywriters.

This presentation is naive in a big way. It is very true that giving makes one happier… but she never questions what giving does to the recipient. The answer is that it may make them temporarily happy – but in the long term, it makes them dependent and entitled. And that makes them LESS happy. What my family and I are doing (and what I’ve been writing about) is the real challenge of charity: How can you help people without damaging them?