It’s harder to hit a home run in marketing and business these days, it’s not impossible just harder.
I think we need to learn to approach marketing and the way we think about doing business differently. It’s the “little” bit that will make a huge difference, should you connect with the ball.
Who do you think should [...]

Are you or are you not, working on your dream?Why not? Could it be that you are caught in a ‘Performance Trap’?
The Performance Trap: “My self worth equals my performance plus the opinions of others.” (Dr. David Cook, The Mindset of a Champion via TSTN)
To obtain your freedom and extract yourself from ‘

Many entrepreneurs joke that perhaps they have ADD. For the record a lot of very successful entrepreneurs had ADD and they got a lot done.

Is ADD, a.k.a. AD/HD an Entrepreneurial Trait?
I Google’d AD/HD and Entrepreneur and ended up at the AD/HD website at about.com They have an interesting article, but one sentence got my [...]

No matter how long you have been in business you can easily get caught in this trap. If you do get caught in the “Star Employee” syndrome it could easily impair your judgement and set you and the new employee up for failure.
Relief and Gratitude
You are just so happy to have such a well qualified, [...]

I had an amazing meeting with one of the web’s most brilliant and relatively unknown, creative thinkers, Reg Cheramy from web2.0central.com
Reg lives in Edmonton, the same city where I live but in a different part of town. Towards the end of our meeting he suggested that I purchase ceoradar.com which I did (thanks Reg).
Meaning to [...]

Six months, eight group coaching sessions, two one-on-one coaching sessions, access to my library of more than 400 tools and articles, and the opportunity to learn from six other non-competitive business owners like yourself. If you have been thinking that business could be better and are not sure where to begin this is the program [...]

I wrote this article following a training I developed for a client and their team. I hope you enjoy this as much as they did.
Before we begin ‘Thinking Inside the Box’ lets first review what ‘Thinking Outside the Box’ means.
Thinking Outside the Box
What does it mean to ‘think outside the box’?
Typically ‘thinking outside the box’ [...]

Nice to have IBM confirm that business model innovation is the new differentiator and can pay off.
These and other findings are in “Expanding the Innovation Horizon,” the 2006 IBM Global CEO Study reporting on the agenda of CEOs in the next few years.. with 765 chief executives from around the world… Among the 2006 study’s [...]

In an entrepreneurial landscape where people write books with titles like Instant Income, Millionaire Mind, and You Will Make Money While You Sleep is the story of a husband and wife team that did it slowly.
“It takes a long time to gain a foothold. We worked for 3 years without a salary, and eight years [...]

Manpower suggests that using specialized retention and recruiting strategies will allow you to target the single largest available workforce segment – those over age 50. If you are looking for people to staff our business and you are ignoring the 50+ worker you could be in for a tough ride.
Training programs – Mature workers are [...]