by | Sunday | Business Strategy, holidays, Resolutions, strategic planning
2006 is almost history so it’s time to consider some resolutions for the New Year. Even if you don’t believe in making New Year’s resolutions, you likely want to improve your business or your professional status right? Sticking with that theme, why...
by | Saturday | Business Opinion, Business Strategy, Buzz, Sales / Marketing, Word of Mouth
I’m sure many of you have read or heard about the Microsoft blogger “scandal.” If not, click here to read an E-Week piece on it if you wish. To summarize, Microsoft and AMD sent some prominent bloggers a honking Vista based laptops for them to test...
by | Tuesday | Business Strategy
I frequently get asked “how can I differentiate my product or service when there are a lot of competitors doing the same things on a similar level?” My initial answer is ‘you just answered your own question within the question.’ That part about...
by | Sunday | Business Strategy, musings, Sports
Among my circle of friends, we have a running inside joke about our favorite sports teams achieving “sponsorship” from a fictitious company called “Medicore” when they’re average at best. We don’t accept mediocrity (the company...
by | Wednesday | Business Strategy, Buzz, Sales / Marketing
The other night my girlfriend and I went out to dinner with some friends of hers, and the topic of cooking came up and how it seemed we just didn’t have the time to cook as much as we’d like. One of the men sitting at the table mentioned Little...
by | Saturday | Business Strategy, Sales / Marketing
There are 76 million people alive today which were born between 1946-1964, widely considered the baby boom era. They represent the lion’s share of today’s economy and the American workforce. These people are approaching retirement so the rhetorical...