Are You Leveraging the Dog Days of Summer? It’s that time of year, the heat begins to wear on you.   Even if your business thrives during late July and into August, you know the dog days have arrived.  The Greeks and Romans first coined this term as Sirius (The Dog Star) appeared to rise alongside the sun in late July in the Northern […]
Are you scared of Online Marketing?
photo by BGLewandowski  A friend of mine – we’ll call him Dave to protect the innocent, recently met with a local Online Marketing company to learn more about how to get started with online marketing – specifically email marketing (sending online newsletters to contacts that you know). It turned out to be a scary encounter… […]
The Power of Positive Thinking?
So I saw in interesting article in the Men’s Journal (May 2007 – I’m not doing a good job of keeping up with the backlog…). Anyway, the article was titled “Think Yourself Stronger (how sports hypnosis boosts performance)”.  The essence of the article was that the author was trying sports hypnosis as a way to […]
Unleash the Power of Purpose...
If you want to see an employee or a team really come to life, help them figure out their purpose and set them loose! It is one thing to have a job, it is entirely another to have a purpose.  A job can be anything from owner/CEO of the business, to manager, or any one […]
Now I can’t imagine not having a coach. Prior to hiring Chris,  I had heard of the concept of a business coach, but I didn’t know I needed one. Now I can’t imagine not having a coach. No matter how large our company grows, I expect to have a coach.