What businesses are you in? Really? This is a question that 90% of small business owners forget to ever answer – and it’s the most important question regarding your business! [Read more...]
May
27
What is your Google score?
I am amazed by how many people have never Googled themselves. In today’s world, it’s increasingly important just what the Internet says about you – whether true or fiction. Most of you understand this, and have taken the proper steps to protect yourself from online brand-hijacking. Just think of how awkward that next job interview will be if the hiring manager comes in with an image of you painted by negative search results from the night before. How might you be put at a disadvantage? [Read more...]
May
25
Memorial Day
May
22
Pay Time
At a sales training seminar a couple weeks ago, the presenter spoke on the topic of separating pay time from no pay time. I was very familiar with this concept, but not in quite the way he put it. All of us recognize the importance of tracking billable versus non-billable hours, but “pay time” doesn’t necessarily mean billable hours. [Read more...]
May
20
… Or It’s Free
I’m not afraid to admit it, but I use Match.com. I have for a while, actually. At least until today. [Read more...]
May
18
Unplugged
At a shareholder’s meeting this weekend, a few of us were talking of the emerging “new cool” among the business elite. In the past, he who was most connected won the prize of being viewed as the most successful. This was the guy with one of the first Blackberry devices. The woman who would check her email at 3am to respond to problems. The CEO who was never “in a meeting” when you called. This group was always plugged in, and their business reputations benefitted from it. [Read more...]
