photo by Rhett Maxwell When was the last time you took a few minutes…or better yet a few hours and really thought through what you wanted to get out of your business and what your exit strategy might be?  Have you looked at the end of the rainbow at all? Even if you have […]

  photo by TheBusyBrain It can be really tough to explain to people why they should spend their hard earned money with you rather than the competition. As an example, let’s pretend that you have a catering company…and that your target market is the business crowd – larger groups that like a variety of hot […]

  photo by smlp.co.uk I had a crazy week this past week, a lot of late nights and not enough downtime…but it’s my fault due to poor planning.  It was the cumulative pile-up of too many things going on at once, all of them important, but not necessarily urgent (other than I had piled up […]

Almost everyone goes through some sort of planning and goal setting exercise during the year.  We’re now 2/3 of the way through this year and although it’s a little early to get serious about finalizing next year’s goals, it’s not too early to start thinking about it. With that in mind, I challenged one of […]

  photo by exfordy I like to keep track of stuff – notes I take during a meeting, ideas that come up at odd times and get thrown onto a post-it note, a cool website I run across, powerful images I could use for blog posts, interesting videos or a important emails.  Historically I haven’t […]

photo by sean rogers1 You have to love the clarity and power of numbers. Now that school’s started up again, homework is ramping up as well and my wife and I had a great ‘tutoring’ session with my daughter on her math homework.  My daughter was struggling with one of the concepts and wanted to […]