Throughout Fort Collins, we're living the impact of a singular focus on building a community around an admittedly very-special hub: Old Town. While I love and appreciate what Old Town has to offer, when it comes to the edges of Fort Collins, we've left it largely to developers to fund and plan literally everything. That's …
Author: Nick Armstrong
I’m Nick Armstrong: the Geek-in-Chief behind WTF Marketing, dad, author, Ignite, PechaKucha, Startup Week, and TEDx speaker, audio drama enthusiast, and award-winning entrepreneur.
More than anything, I love to make people laugh.
I’ve co-organized community events like Fort Collins Comic Con, Startup Week Fort Collins, TEDxFoCo, Ignite Fort Collins, LaidOffCamp/CareerCamp, PodCamp Fort Collins, and more. My local efforts landed me a prestigious spot as one of BizWest’s 40 Under Forty in 2016 and the Colorado Association of Libraries’ Library Community Partnership Award in 2018.
Alongside an amazing team of super-geeks, I built out Fort Collins Comic Con to benefit the Poudre Libraries and have raised over $120,000 to encourage youth literacy and $20,000 for the Alliance for Suicide Prevention.
Through WTF Marketing and partner organizations, I’ve served a wide array of happy clients ranging from mom-and-pop shops to Fortune 100’s.
I’ve written three books: Psychotic Resumes, a Gen-Y resume creation and job search guide, Mess Hunter, a children’s book that I also illustrated, and a cookbook called Men in Kitchens: A Good Day to Dine Hard. My marketing writing has also appeared in anthologies alongside business and marketing greats such as Seth Godin, Ash Ambirge, and Leo Babauta.
What I’ve learned from talking to organizations and neighbors around District 1
Focused, purposeful outreach is the first step to engaging in the community, and I've had conversations with countless organizations, neighbors, and community leaders to learn what they expect from a Fort Collins City Councilperson. In running for City Council, organizations and groups often reach out to you directly. For instance: Here are my responses to …
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About those bike lanes and trails in Fort Collins District 1…
Let's talk about transportation infrastructure in Fort Collins District 1. Today Governor Polis shared this very cool idea and story: "How Colorado’s Free E-Bike Program Fits Into Its Plan To Slow Climate Change" - https://www.cpr.org/2021/02/10/how-colorados-free-e-bike-program-fits-into-its-plan-to-slow-climate-change/ I truly wish something like this was feasible in Fort Collins, but no matter where you live in District 1, …
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Check out the Nick For FoCo Campaign HQ
As a parentpreneur, I know well the struggles that come with teaching your kids, running a business, or running a City Council campaign from your kitchen table turned classroom. Without a strong support structure, it's damn near impossible. Our family has been learning and growing together during COVID, and we know the difficulties first-hand. We're …
Nick For FoCo: Interview with Aquiles Quiroga
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Tk2gr4Xryk Nick Armstrong in an interview with local musician and small business owner Aquiles Quiroga about persevering as a creative and running a business during COVID. Follow Aquiles' music at: https://www.facebook.com/achillesquiroga and directly at: Aquiles.Quiroga@gmail.com. Check out what Aquiles has to say and learn more about how Nick will have your back on Fort Collins …
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Nick For FoCo: What are your favorite local businesses?
https://youtu.be/nGIVDDcZsmg What are some of your favorite local Fort Collins businesses? Just a few of mine: Akinz, Horsetooth Hot Sauce, and Life's a Buch Kombucha! You can find all sorts of other local businesses right on the Fort Collins Marketplace created by Visit Fort Collins! Supporting local businesses owned by your neighbors helps create jobs, …
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Schadenfreude Isn’t A Sustainable Way of Life
As a country, we need to take a breath and deeply study what's occurred leading up to the events at the Capitol today to identify which leaders, systems, actions, and words have enabled this unprecedented, divisive, and irresponsible act of chaos and violence against democracy. Accountability is the first step, prevention is the next. Whataboutism …
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About That Personal Responsibility
If you believe in the merit of personal responsibility, at some point, it's important to behave responsibly. Everybody is on the same team about the survival of small businesses. Everybody, even if the words coming out of their mouth or the policies implemented sound anti-business. There's literally no one who benefits from the death of …
Checks/Balances
The US election system consists of a robust system of checks and balances. There are career professionals whose job it is to ensure every American's voice is heard fairly, both Republican and Democrat, swearing up and down that there was no wrongdoing. There's no evidence of fraud. None: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/10/donald-trump-longshot-election-lawsuits and https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/10/us/politics/voting-fraud.html Almost every court case …
Star Trek Solved Its Stuffy-Shirt Problem
Star Trek has traditionally had a stuffy-shirt problem, especially via fans of The Next Generation (think Picard/Riker/Data era). The ethics of the 24th-century Federation were so lofty as to seem unachievable and unrealistically idealistic to many. I grew up as one of those insufferably idealistic kids, espousing the virtues of Trek wherever I went (usually …
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