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Getting Your Story in the Journal
Getting Your Story in the Journal
Ted Merz Surface Area
Sign up to receive Surface Area or follow me on Linkedin or Twitter. Book a meeting here to talk about ghostwriting from my agency, Principals Media. How can your company get coverage in the Wall Street Journal? The old model is to pay a PR agency tens...
1 week ago
4 MIN READ
Are You Ready for Joe Lonsdale?
Are You Ready for Joe Lonsdale?
Ted Merz Surface Area
Sign up to receive Surface Area or follow me on Linkedin or Twitter. Book a meeting here to talk about ghostwriting from my agency, Principals Media. Marc Benioff was ready for his Joe Lonsdale moment. Are you?  That’s what I ask CEOs who don’t spend...
2 weeks ago
4 MIN READ
Life Lessons from Byron Wien
Life Lessons from Byron Wien
Ted Merz Surface Area
Sign up to receive Surface Area or follow me on Linkedin or Twitter. Book a meeting here to talk about ghostwriting from my agency, Principals Media. In 1986, Byron Wien published a list of ten surprises he expected on Wall Street for the following year....
3 weeks ago
8 MIN READ
Jumper Cables
Jumper Cables
Ted Merz Surface Area
Sign up to receive Surface Area or follow me on Linkedin or Twitter. Book a meeting here to talk about ghostwriting from my agency, Principals Media. The Greatest Generation liberated Europe from the Nazis, created NATO and the United Nations, embarked...
4 weeks ago
4 MIN READ
Bright Lights, Big City
Bright Lights, Big City
Ted Merz Surface Area
Sign up to receive Surface Area or follow me on Linkedin or Twitter. Book a meeting here to talk about ghostwriting from my agency, Principals Media. New York City is a charcuterie board of social and professional opportunity. I was reminded of that...
4 weeks ago
4 MIN READ
State of the Bots
State of the Bots
Ted Merz Surface Area
Sign up to receive Surface Area or follow me on Linkedin or Twitter. Book a meeting here to talk about ghostwriting from my agency, Principals Media. I watched the State of the Union, but found the State of the Bots more engaging. The State of the Bots is...
1 month ago
4 MIN READ
Reactions to Getting Fired
Reactions to Getting Fired
Ted Merz Surface Area
Sign up to receive Surface Area or follow me on Linkedin or Twitter. Book a meeting here to talk about ghostwriting from my agency, Principals Media. I posted on LinkedIn last week about getting fired. It struck a nerve. The piece got almost 1,000...
1 month ago
3 MIN READ
The Era of the Slide Rule
The Era of the Slide Rule
Ted Merz Surface Area
Sign up to receive Surface Area or follow me on Linkedin or Twitter. Book a meeting here to talk about ghostwriting from my agency, Principals Media. My father recently gifted me a prize possession, his Keuffel & Essen Duplex Log Log Decitrig Slide...
2 months ago
4 MIN READ
Getting Fired
Getting Fired
Ted Merz Surface Area
Sign up to receive Surface Area or follow me on Linkedin or Twitter. Book a meeting here to talk about ghostwriting from my agency, Principals Media. On this day three years ago I was fired from Bloomberg. This is the first time I’ve written about it. My...
2 months ago
4 MIN READ
The Movable Feast Moves to Mexico
The Movable Feast Moves to Mexico
Ted Merz Surface Area
Sign up to receive Surface Area or follow me on Linkedin or Twitter. Book a meeting here to talk about ghostwriting from my agency, Principals Media. If Hemingway and Fitzgerald were alive today they wouldn’t be in Paris.  You’d find them in Mexico...
2 months ago
3 MIN READ