18th November 2009
Last week I talked about how either moving too fast or too slow can sabotage your success. (You can read part 1 by visiting my blog… my website address is listed below.) Today I'm going to talk
about a place where entrepreneurs typically move too slo...
03rd November 2009
After being in business for as long as I have, there's one thing that never fails to amaze me -- the capacity entrepreneurs have to sabotage their own success. (Not to mention how creative those ways can be.) While there's about a million ways this manife...
22nd October 2009
It can make good marketing sense to partner with a nonprofit or a cause.
Consider what my marathon friends did when they were raising money to participate in the 3-Day Walk (you walk 60 miles in 3 days to promote breast cancer awareness and raise mone...
02nd October 2009
My 95-year-old grandfather is quite a character. Yep, he's still going strong, takes 2 pills a month (yes, you read that right, a month) but he always makes sure he gets his gin in every day. (Forget yogurt, the key to living a long and health life is def...
23rd September 2009
Awhile ago, I got an email from one of the "gurus" I follow and it shocked me. The gist of it was this person wanted to trade services for a household item.
To say it floored me would be an understatement.
What was worse was a few days later this pe...
11th September 2009
First, some context. What exactly is an upsell and a downsell and why is it so important to your business?
An upsell is when your prospect has already said "yes" to buying something from you, and then they decide at the same time to buy something else....
16th August 2009
Business - How Vampires Can Help Your Business
Summary: Vampires are everywhere. I don't think it was a coincidence I finish watching True Blood and discover one of my friends and clients was scammed. Con artists and scammers are just another sort of h...
02nd August 2009
Apple or AT&T?
I've recently run into an interesting dilemma -- will my loyalty to Apple win out against my disgust with AT&T?
I admit it. I'm been a lifelong Apple lover. My parents bought the family an Apple 2E in high school. (Remember those)? Th...
27th July 2009
The other day when I was running/walking a 10K race, my knee started hurting. It had been troubling me off and on for about a month but I thought I had it under control.
My initial reaction was to grit my teeth and walk through the pain. That's what I ...
27th July 2009
Imagine -- money flowing into your business from all sorts of places. That's what it's like to have multiple streams of income. Your business isn't dependent on one stream of income but instead you can make money from a variety of places.
Is that what ...
17th July 2009
Have you heard any of these?
* A guy who works part time for the Eagles Football team updates his status report by saying something to the effect that the Eagles suck due to a trade they made. The Eagles fire him.
* A woman gets a job offer from Cis...
17th July 2009
The first time I heard the saying "How you do one thing is how you do everything" I didn't get it. (Actually I think my exact response was: "Yeah, yeah, yeah.")
However, as I continued to work on myself and my business over the years, this statement ha...
17th July 2009
Have you ever had done something you thought was a really good idea at the time and then it completely backfires on you?
Well, it happened to my good friend Nancy Marmolejo, Viva Visibility.
If you don't know Nancy yet, you really need to. She is a ...
07th July 2009
It's never a good thing when you rely on one stream of income. That stream dries up and you're, ahem, up that creek without a paddle.
That's why having multiple streams of income is so valuable. One stream dries up, you've got a few other ones to depen...
07th July 2009
When people realize I walk marathons, one of the questions I frequently get asked is "how did you do it? How did you finish the marathon once you hit the point of 'nothing helps?'"
Well, I can tell you it's not easy. Lots of demons come out to play and...
