photo by psoup216  Wouldn’t it be great if Kansas City could get an extra $20 Million or so in Federal or State funding right now when times are really tough? It turns out we can!  There was a recent and successful effort to challenge the US Census numbers for Kansas City and there are […]

Photo by aye_shamus Successful companies big and small have a story behind them.  In fact a big part of what makes a lot of those companies successful is their story. One great example is Patagonia – the company’s founder Yvon Chouinard originally started the company because he couldn’t find the climbing gear he needed so […]

Late last week I came down with something – food poison, stomach flu…whatever it was, the feeling was a lot like what I imagine getting run over by a train would feel like. Luckily my schedule for Friday was fairly light and flexible, so I was able to cancel everything and just take a day […]

         photo by frumbert Everybody wants to grow their business and although there are lots of ways to grow the bottom line through cost savings, operational efficiencies and stuff like that, most of the focus is on getting more potential customers – which puts us into Marketing! Here’s the definition of marketing that I use:  […]

  photo by xcode  If you’re like most business owners (or people for that matter), you’d like to make more money, work fewer hours and enjoy what you do – that combination is the updated version of the American dream.  However for most of us, reaching that kind of outcome requires significant changes to what […]

Photo by hrtmnstrfr You (and your business) are really good at something. Maybe it’s a tangible skill related to how you create or deliver your product or service.  Maybe it’s an intangible soft skill like active listening or customer follow-up. Whatever it is, it’s one of only a few things that really makes you different […]