We are drowning in information. The Library of Congress is huge (see picture above).  Did you know it took over 200 years to accumulate all the written material to fill the Library of Congress? The information material created in just the last 10 years on the internet dwarfs that amount…there’s a lot of material coming […]

   photo by tao_zhyn Habit number seven from Stephen Covey’s Seven Habits of Highly effective people is “Sharpen the Saw”.  He uses a story of a woodcutter who is struggling after several days of sawing wood – he’s lost effectiveness because his saw is no longer sharp.  From Covey’s perspective, there are different aspects to […]

The world has changed a lot – you used to be able to send out letters…direct mail and bring in new business with great success. But costs have gone up, effectiveness of direct mail has gone down and there are lots of other marketing choices out there. One of those choices is email marketing – […]

    photo by Monica’s Dad It’s probably time to start thinking about alternatives – not power alternatives (although that’s a worthwhile discussion as well), I’m talking about alternative Social Media platforms other than Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. Facebook is now over 400 Million users and over 80 Million of them are playing Farmville (which may […]

   photo by Dave F Do you know what you’re subconsciously telling people about your business?  Are you sending messages that don’t match up with the impression that you’d like to send (assuming that you know what that is)? The thing is that you and your employees are constantly sending out messages whether you mean […]

   photo by Michael Filion I’ve got too much to do!  There’s never enough time to get everything done! I am feeling overwhelmed! I’m hear that kind of thing a lot from business owners (and everyone else) – I was going to do a new post on time management, but I thought a better approach […]