Scott Paton

As I wind through the hills of Bel Air, I am frantically searching for 1111 Linda Flora Drive, the home of Jan Berry—the former leader of ‘60s surf music duo...

In 1993, the Music Business was a thriving, robust industry. The term "illegal download" meant stealing something off the back of a freight truck. Burgeoning...

Of all the syndicated and network radio series I produced, one of my favorites was "Lee Arnold on a Country Road." Lee had the distinction of bringing the c...

TRSA (Textile Rental Services Association) is the largest and oldest trade group serving the Professional Laundry Industry. Throughout 2017, I helped them cr...

Margaret D. Rappaport is an extremely popular civil servant in Howard County, Maryland. For more than two decades she had served as the Clerk of the Circuit ...

“Business ain’t what it used to be.” How many times have you heard that phrase? Too often, probably, just before someone closed up shop. But let’s update ...

Never let your writing get in the way of your messaging. If the content you’re generating isn’t connecting with its readers, your florid prose has most like...

“Is that your final answer?” The phrase has insinuated itself into our collective vocabulary like no other since the days of “Where’s the beef?” Surely Regis...

As a child actor, Paul Petersen was a fixture in American living rooms —at least the ones with TV sets–portraying Jeff Stone, the irascible son on “The Donna...

Sometimes the smaller jobs are just as essential to a client as a major communications project. CEI--Engineers & Contractors of Florida are specialists ...

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It was a mantra drilled into us as school children—“Safety First.” And of all our early “life lessons,” that may be the one most apropos to today’s laundry ...

"Employees often view performance evaluation with apprehension—fearful of criticism, recrimination or even threat of termination. Yet, when this practice is ...

2022 marks the 60th anniversary of the most influential musical ensemble to emerge, literally and figuratively, from the shores of America. The ongoing lega...

Circa 1983, a group of colleagues (Paul Hall, Jim Hampton, Ken Draper) and myself were all working together at a radio syndication firm in Los Angeles. We wo...

A press release for the largest heavy equipment rental service in New York's Hudson River Valley region.

Southwest Airlines and their ad agency were looking to do some target advertising on Urban Contemporary radio and these two spots were intended to be demos f...

Dick Clark's impact on pop culture and television programming can't truly be measured. He gently and insidiously helped usher Rock & Roll into the mains...

While serving as the Senior Editor at Mom.com, I developed a tutorial for the writing staff that provided tips on making headlines, subheads and introduction...

From the over-hyped "Brian Is Back" campaign of the late '70s to the present day, Wilson's live appearances have consisted of little more than token cameos a...