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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.
Douglas Longenecker
Mar 22, 20223 min read
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2022 Marketing Planning: Don't Wing It. Bring It!
Your planning process for marketing and sales should be a proactive model that ensures discipline, flexibility and growth.
jcarnold
Sep 28, 20214 min read
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Five Lessons for the Fiercely Independent...
//NKST is the culmination of a career's worth of hardships, blessings, experiences and opportunities.
Douglas Longenecker
Jun 30, 20214 min read
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Be Brave. Be Effective. Create Originality.
Be brave. Be effective. Let’s face it, safe advertising is not effective advertising.
Douglas Longenecker
Jun 29, 20211 min read
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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...
Douglas Longenecker
May 25, 20214 min read
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Five Benefits of Outsourcing Marketing
We believe that outsourced marketing is not only worth the investment but extremely beneficial for all
companies to consider...
Meghan McGrail
Jan 24, 20212 min read
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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...
Meghan McGrail
Jan 14, 20212 min read
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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)…
Douglas Longenecker
Dec 29, 20203 min read
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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...
Douglas Longenecker
Nov 11, 20204 min read
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If Hindsight is 2020, What Does that Mean for Your 2021 Plans?
Although your vision for 2020 compared to reality may be very different, it’s still critical to look at your original intentions...
jcarnold
Nov 11, 20203 min read
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Liberte. Liberta. Liberty.
As a hybrid organization, now is the time we declare our independence from both ad agencies and strategic marketing consultancies.
Douglas Longenecker
Jun 30, 20202 min read
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Safe Ideas Are Risky Business
Safe ideas will not generate greater sales more economically, and rarely make facts come alive in a fresh, memorable and persuasive way...
Douglas Longenecker
Jun 2, 20202 min read
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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
Douglas Longenecker
Mar 25, 20202 min read
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If It Doesn't Sell, Is It Creative?
The question has been around for a long time, but its central point of creative development and focus on quantifiable results remains...
Douglas Longenecker
Jan 30, 20201 min read
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Make Sure Your Competitive Advantage Starts with Confidence
There's a lot to be said for confidence. Too much of it and you're an arrogant asshole. Not enough of it and you are pitifully ineffectual.
Douglas Longenecker
Dec 31, 20192 min read
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The Future Is Always Coming...
At //NKST, we see the future as boundless opportunity – focusing on growth sprung from creativity, personal data, technology & human nature.
Douglas Longenecker
Dec 15, 20192 min read
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BOO! To You.
When the autumnal sky is streaked with a fiery glow
And the harvest moon is set ablaze
We see spirits of those who used to be among us...
Douglas Longenecker
Oct 28, 20191 min read
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TU, RU. For a Shared Afternoon of Influence and Impact
It never fails to amaze us what can happen when we are out and about – opening ourselves to share what we know with others and learning...
Douglas Longenecker
Oct 25, 20192 min read
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10 + 1 Guidelines for Accelerating and Sustaining Growth
One of the best ways we can enable our organizations to blur operational lines, reduce bureaucratic red tape and jump across organizational.
Douglas Longenecker
Jul 20, 20194 min read
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When You Aim for the Moon, Your Biggest Competition is You and the Status Quo
...when you are planning your company’s moon shot your biggest worry shouldn’t be what your competitors are doing - the stakes are too high.
Douglas Longenecker
Jul 15, 20193 min read
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