Recent Blog Posts
A little Inspiration for Fellow Entrepreneurs/Wantrepreneurs
This past week I came across a blog post on Shopify. It contained 12 TED talk videos that were meant to inspire fellow Entrepreneurs/Wantrepreneurs. The one that stuck out for me the most was Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action. It really struck a nerve with...
What you really get when you ask “What is your Weakness”.
Recently, I have gone through several interviews with very different companies. Each company had different ways of achieving their success, so why did they ask the same interview questions? Canned questions are a big annoyance to me. The question that burns me to the...
Set Your Ego Aside
This past week I was reminded of a situation that I had to deal with a while ago. I helped on a small project, just fixing some bugs and finishing up some functions while the head developer was busy doing more important things. Everything was going fine till I...
Labor Day 2012
The first Labor Day holiday, created by the Central Labor Union of New York, was celebrated on Tuesday, September 5, 1882 and now many of us see this holiday as end the of summer. Celebrate today the 364 days you work and help make the world economy revolve. Yes, we...
Business Success System for a Thriving Business – Webinar
Owning your own business means you are responsible for everything. Often, this means "what ever is on fire, gets taken care of first". This Live Webinar will be for business owners to explore and trouble shoot the areas all businesses have in common. Grow your...
Selling – A Reminder Lesson
This week I got a reminder from a good business friend about the selling process that I want to share with everyone. A few lessons are from my friend and few are from me. When writing a proposal or when talking about a service/product, start from the beginning and...
What to Expect When Your Business is Expecting
Your business is growing and the next step in the commitment process is that crying, stress-filled little bundle of wages, taxes and insurance payments. It’s time to talk about salaries. Adding on a new staff member is expensive and there is no guarantee you will get...
Don’t be an Anchor, be the Captain.
I helped a business friend work on a web site for one of his clients. We were making changes to their membership service site, a small dynamic site. Something that would take six to eight months. At first the experience was a huge mess. There was a VP of a department,...
Communicating What You Really Mean
Recently, I was listening to someone talk about their new mission statement and my ears perked up when he started talking about not being able to read another business's mission statement on an elevator ride because it was too long. He pointed out that your mission...
Change the Resistance
Changing the way we do things requires doing things differently and causes resistance. In fact, habits are some of the hardest things to change and that is why when we want to create change, we will talk about making the change a "habit". Resistance is the bane of...