photo by Robert S. Donovan  As a business owner, when you first start out you create some sort of vision of success.  A vision that’s compelling enough to get you to take the big leap, leave your job, take the risk…whatever it might be. That vision usually has a money component – ultimately you […]

I’ve been on a kick lately to collect older movies – movies that I remember as influential or just entertaining from ‘formative’ years (which probably are still going on now that I think about it). Some of them have held up better than others (I watched the director’s cut of The Warriors recently and I […]

  photo from NASA  Regardless of the type of business you’re in, the last 2 or 3 years have been a challenge, including the longest recession since 1929.  The good news is there are a lot of positive signs that the economy, led by small business, is ready to take off. How do you make […]

Professionals don’t get much coverage when it comes to using social media and at first glance (or two) it’s not obvious how those that are in the B2B marketplace could successfully use social media for their business. I was doing a social media presentation earlier this week to a group of business owners and a […]

    photo by covilha  “If a good reputation is like Gold, then having Integrity is like owning the mine.”  John C. Maxwell / Jim Dornan – Becoming a Person of Influence I had a great opportunity to sit in on a Core Advocates training session this morning that focused on the importance of Reputation […]

  photo by marnox1  Search Engine Optimization has become a mystical term, invoking the idea of wizards laboring in their lofty towers to get websites onto the first page of Google. The reality is that SEO for really competitive online sites is an arcane art and if your business is going up against the big […]