Archives for June 2008

Those other Joe Hages!

(This article first appeared on April 24, 2008.) Back in the day, me and Dad — we were the only Joe Hages that mattered. Now with this new-fangled Internet thing, there are Joe Hages all over the place! There’s the Lebanese Coalition Joe Hage and the baseball-playing Joe Hage. The legal Joe Hage could defend […]

Seattle Marketing Strategy according to Google

In Those other Joe Hages! I groused about some other Joe Hage who was overshadowing my own Joe Hageness. And while “taking him down” did give me great joy, I’ve won a bigger prize. I’m the #1 Seattle Marketing Strategist. As of this writing (updated 11/15/09), I have the first local result and the first […]

Tae Andrews, Rest in Peace

Tae Wan Andrews died on March 30. He was 45. I just heard about it today. Tae was my boss at Kraft Foods when I worked on the Lender’s Bagel business. I liked him, and I’m moved by his death. Working on Lender’s in 1996 was neither easy nor enviable. Bagel shops were sprouting all […]

The Joe Hage and Barry Hurd Marketing Adventure

My friend Barry Hurd and I hosted a fantastic marketing event last Thursday for real estate professionals. What makes this remarkable, as Barry details in this very flattering blog entry (click here to read in its entirety) is, “In terms of the relationship between us, Joe and I would simply not have met in real […]

Tim Russert needed a defibrillator

Beloved NBC political correspondent Tim Russert died yesterday from sudden cardiac arrest, according to Newsweek. If his colleagues immediately applied an automated external defibrillator (AED), he might be alive today. Dr. Richard Shlosmitz, chairman of cardiology at St. Francis Heart Hospital in Roslyn, said, “A layman could have saved his life. Without a defibrillator, even […]