Photo by Adam Pniak These days more than ever it’s critical that your business stands out from the crowd (for the right reasons). Recent studies show that an ever growing majority of people are turning to the internet first to solve their problems and buy solutions, services and products.  Specifically they’re using search engines like […]

  photo by emdot It’s a Friday afternoon and I thought I would share 3 fun and interesting, but totally unrelated things.  The internet is an amazing resource…what is it not capable of? Item #1 – Accidental Innovation Most of the time you think about inventors laboring away in the lab, spending years coming up […]

I had a chance to re-watch The Shawshank Redemption recently and remembered why it’s one of my all time favorite movies.  It’s got a compelling, gripping story that will stay with you long after the lights come up.  It’s got great acting and narration from the incomparable Morgan Freeman.  And it has lots of great […]

  photo by Capture Queen  Time management may be the single biggest curse for most business owners (it’s right up there with hiring good people, marketing, sales and building processes).  It’s such a prevalent issue because as a business owner you have dozens of things that you could or should be doing and there’s never […]

  photo by christian.senger We had a great discussion the other day in one of my Peer Group Advisory Board meetings on marketing ideas for a typical small business.  There are lots of things that are important when it comes to marketing: Understanding who is your best target market, Understanding the benefits and outcomes you […]

  Outbound sales and marketing are dying…(or at least becoming a lot less effective!). The folks over at Hubspot pointed this out almost 2 years when they talked about Inbound Marketing vs. Outbound Marketing.  To me it’s intuitively clear  the internet, along with caller-id and sophisticated phone systems have made it much more difficult to […]