by Jeff Mendelsohn | Sep 23, 2013 | Business Improvement, Business Planning
I’m a perfectionist that doesn’t have time to be perfect. That drives me bonkers but I’ve realized it is a battle I will never win. It is true that if I’m allowed or allow myself to have unlimited time to complete a project, lets say a web...
by Jeff Mendelsohn | Sep 15, 2013 | Business Improvement, Customer Service & Culture, Image & Marketing
Gary owns a parking lot sweeping service. After hours he comes in and cleans parking lots of garbage and rocks. Overall Gary’s business is pretty successful. He has steady customers and enough jobs to keep him busy all year but he has hit a plateau. For every...
by Jeff Mendelsohn | Sep 2, 2013 | Business Improvement
This past week I was asked to look into an issue with a web service that I work on from time to time. I just help out the development team from time to time so I have no real say it how they develop the web service but it is easy work and pays the bills. The issue was...
by Jeff Mendelsohn | Aug 26, 2013 | Customer Service & Culture, Selling
Every month I have several sales meetings with potential clients. Some work out, some don’t. It is the way business works. But something happened recently that made me rethink my policy and part of my contact. I met with a potential client who had a fairly...
by Jeff Mendelsohn | Aug 12, 2013 | Business Improvement, Personal Improvement
Sunday – Back up your computer. Monday – Contact Someone You’d Like to Work With/Meet/haven’t talked to in a while. Tuesday – Instead of getting up and checking emails, take an hour to start a project you have been too busy to start....