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// NKST Blog: What's new. What's now. What's next.

Check out our team’s POV on important topics that span, strategy, digital marketing, strategic communications, technology, creative design, CX strategy and more. We’d love your take on our positions and welcome lively and passionate discussions.

Three Keys to Overcoming Adversity: How to Flex, Pivot and Adapt

Douglas Longenecker

Mar 26
3 min

Three Keys to Overcoming Adversity: How to Flex, Pivot and Adapt

create pathways that enable your organization to evolve its corporate culture with 3 mission-critical steps of how to Flex, Pivot and Adapt

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The Top Three Challenges in Letting Go of Business-As-Usual Programs, Mindsets and Culture

Douglas Longenecker

Nov 25, 2022
3 min

The Top Three Challenges in Letting Go of Business-As-Usual Programs, Mindsets and Culture

Explore the top 3 challenges of taking on a company-wide initiative to proactively future-proof your business for an era of uncertainty

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What's Next, is //NKST: Our Story of Exploding the Box

Douglas Longenecker

Mar 22, 2022
3 min

What's Next, is //NKST: Our Story of Exploding the Box

In this new business reality, //NKST is the result of blowing up the boxes of traditional strategic consultancies and agency models.

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In Times of Chaos, PR and Communications Seize the Day

Tara Baumgarten

Mar 22, 2022
3 min

In Times of Chaos, PR and Communications Seize the Day

Here are four tips on how to prepare for and manage your communications strategy in times of chaos and uncertainty.

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CX Strategy: Scariest Scenarios to Confront

Douglas Longenecker

Oct 28, 2021
4 min

CX Strategy: Scariest Scenarios to Confront

Here are three of the most terrifying scenarios of developing a Customer Experience strategy and how you can confront them...

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Five Lessons for the Fiercely Independent...

Douglas Longenecker

Jun 30, 2021
4 min

Five Lessons for the Fiercely Independent...

//NKST is the culmination of a career's worth of hardships, blessings, experiences and opportunities.

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The Reluctant Entrepreneur and the Story of What's //NKST: Here's to 2 Years of All Good Things...

Douglas Longenecker

May 25, 2021
4 min

The Reluctant Entrepreneur and the Story of What's //NKST: Here's to 2 Years of All Good Things...

At it's very core, //NKST is here to help growth-minded leaders know where to go next and how to make bold moves with confidence...

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Tara Baumgarten is Tapped by //NKST to Reimagine the Role of PR and Strategic Communications

Douglas Longenecker

May 18, 2021
2 min

Tara Baumgarten is Tapped by //NKST to Reimagine the Role of PR and Strategic Communications

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Four Ways to Spring Clean Your Business During the Pandemic

Meghan McGrail

Apr 28, 2021
3 min

Four Ways to Spring Clean Your Business During the Pandemic

Spring cleaning shouldn’t only apply to homes. Businesses can and should take full advantage of this time of year...

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Business Is Always Personal: Screen2Screen. Mask2Mask. Human2Human.

jcarnold

Apr 20, 2021
3 min

Business Is Always Personal: Screen2Screen. Mask2Mask. Human2Human.

A personal experience of adapting to pandemic work life and the new world of doing business behind the mask a year later.

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Meghan McGrail

Jan 24, 2021
2 min

Five Benefits of Outsourcing Marketing

We believe that outsourced marketing is not only worth the investment but extremely beneficial for all companies to consider...

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Donald Christensen Jr. Joins //NKST to Accelerate Agency Growth.

Meghan McGrail

Jan 14, 2021
2 min

Donald Christensen Jr. Joins //NKST to Accelerate Agency Growth.

He brings a wealth of experience, wisdom and enthusiasm to financial services. Summit, NJ, January 14, 2021 - We are excited to announce...

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A Time It Was and What a Time It Was, It Was...2020.

Douglas Longenecker

Dec 29, 2020
3 min

A Time It Was and What a Time It Was, It Was...2020.

here’s to creating an atmosphere of wide-open possibilities and discovering what challenges we're ready for next (um, //NKST)…

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Why "Confidence" Should be One of Your Competitive Advantages

Douglas Longenecker

Dec 28, 2020
3 min

Why "Confidence" Should be One of Your Competitive Advantages

But, confidence isn’t as easy as it sounds. Show too much, and you're an asshole. Show too little and you may appear like...

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Fear, Uncertainty and Discomfort are Compasses Toward Growth

Douglas Longenecker

Nov 11, 2020
4 min

Fear, Uncertainty and Discomfort are Compasses Toward Growth

...executive leaders need to recalibrate what it takes to realize significant growth and how to align deliberate forms of change...

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Douglas Longenecker

Jun 30, 2020
2 min

Liberte. Liberta. Liberty.

As a hybrid organization, now is the time we declare our independence from both ad agencies and strategic marketing consultancies.

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Douglas Longenecker

Jun 1, 2020
2 min

//NKST Launches New Program to Assist Small Business and 2020 College Graduates.

In response to the Covid-19 crisis, //NKST is collaborating with students from the School of Communications and Information at Rutgers

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Charging Ahead with Innovation in a Down Market

Douglas Longenecker

Mar 25, 2020
2 min

Charging Ahead with Innovation in a Down Market

you need to view these tough times as opportunities. Now is the time to push through the uncertainty and make the bold moves with confidence

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What's Love Got to Do With It? Everything...

Douglas Longenecker

Feb 23, 2020
3 min

What's Love Got to Do With It? Everything...

But like most things, in a few months we are asking ourselves, “where did the love go?” Did it evaporate or dissolve?

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Douglas Longenecker

Feb 11, 2020
3 min

Mastering the New(er) 5 Ps of Marketing

Today, you need to begin breaking through and finding ways to develop communications that dive deeper into how your target segments interact

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// NKST Blog: What's new. What's now. What's next.

Writers write.
It's as simple as that.