If you’ve been to the movies lately (and my family has been a bunch this summer ’cause there have been some great ones!) you notice there’s a trend going on that kind of seems to come and go. You’ll see ads and commercials for local organizations run before the previews of coming attractions start. You’ll also […]
You’ve probably heard the saying, “70% of success is showing up.” You may have heard different statistics associated with it and/or you may have heard the quote attributed to different people. Regardless of who originated it, like a lot of sayings that have been passed down through the ages, there’s a lot of truth in […]
Seth Godin is a brilliant marketer. He often posts a blog entry of only one sentence or a few sentences. And people think it’s amazing. And when he does it, it is. If I were to do that, it’d just look like I was trying to imitate Mr. Godin. Or just lazy. Or both. Which […]
One of the saddest things you’ll ever see is a leader who doesn’t lead. They want the title, they want the position, they want the power, they want whatever it is they want, but they don’t want to serve. They don’t want to make tough decisions, they don’t want to take responsibility, they don’t really […]
Off and on over the years I’ve taken a few jabs at Wal-Mart. You might think it’s because I grew up in a family owned business and that family-owned business was a little grocery store and that I have such dislike because Wal-Mart is often accused of running the “little guy” out of business. Nope, […]
Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out and is willing to pay for. A product is not quality because it is hard to make and costs a lot of money, as manufacturers typically believe. This is incompetence. Customers pay only for what […]
The first question we should always ask when entering any situation that could be a networking situation, and you’ll likely find that ANY situation CAN become a networking situation (done tastefully and tactfully, of course) is…. Who here can I help? I got this idea from Dr. Robert Cialdini, who is considered by many to […]
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