Great small businesses take risks. Without risk, there is no growth and relatively little success. You must embrace the idea that nothing good in life happens without sticking your neck …
Businesses like to speak in big, aggressive terms. “Smash the competition.” “Destroy roadblocks.” “Annihilate sales tax. ...
Our weekly article from Chuck Blakeman, re-printed with his permission. Raving fans are your brand. As we start out, we take cues from Giant Corporati ...
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Every year, we are all treated to breathless predictions of trends for the year ahead. Most of them don’t come true. Some of them do work out—for example, the prediction ...
Lame words are powerful, too. Words represent powerful ideas, whether we mean for them to or not. We might as well be intentional. Zig Zigler said, “be a meaningful specific, ...
Tuesday, November 6th, was a historic presidential election. Probably the most important election of our lives. There is no question this election will dictate what happens in our economy for ...
Running a small business is damn near impossible. When you think about the astronomical odds facing small business owners, it’s amazing any succeed. This is something we spend a lot ...
Start ‘er up. It’s time for the election! Whether you’re voting for Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, Gary Johnson or any of the host of other candidates vying for president, national ...
Just yesterday I was speaking with a client who had had a profound social media epiphany. “We couldn’t believe it Steve,” she said, “we put almost all of our efforts ...