You’ll never get a second chance to make a first impression. I will be launching a new product and service within the next few weeks. The amount of work and cost that is going into it is amazing. It’s also expensive, and a whole lot of fun. I like being creative. Thousands of dollars, many [...]
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Profound Philosophy from a Paunchy Pundit (me): I believe the way to be happy is simple: Depression is usually generated by remembering the past. Anxiety usually comes from considering the future. Peace is living in the moment. That’s why dogs are happy: they live in the moment. Simplistic, I know, but it works for me. [...]
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Brian told me that the worst day of his life was when he told his wife he had gone bankrupt, and he knew he couldn’t blame the bullish economy, the excellent weather, or anyone but himself. Yet he had been careful set aside a substantial amount of money for the purpose of “sales and marketing” [...]
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Remember that old song, “How Deep Is Your Love?” Well, how strong is your dream? I would rather talk with a Has-Been than an Ain’t Never Been. When we say, “Wanna-Be” we usually mean it’s a poser or pretender, but how badly do you wanna be? When Jimi Hendrix’s dad told Jimmy to sweep the [...]
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We all live in Business Boxes. By that, I mean the way we do business, our business philosophy, the way we think about business, and the business choices we make. Why do we stay in our boxes, even when our boxes are on fire and heading down a slippery slope to a lions’ den? We [...]
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“Look at it this way,” Ford Prefect had said, “fruit and berries on strange planets either make you live or make you die. Therefore the point at which to start toying with them is when you’re going to die if you don’t. That way, you stay ahead.” Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of [...]
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They say, “Visibility leads to Credibility, which in turn leads to Profitability.” I concur wholeheartedly. So here are a few easy, very cheap ways of creating more of that elusive Visibility. I have written a number of Forewords and Testimonials for books that friends of mine have written. In each case, my name and my [...]
I have been hypnotized, paralyzed demonized and sterilized for speaking the truth in business; blamed, named, shamed, and declaimed, yet I persist in honesty, because a dollar is a dollar is a dollar. A = A. And I never met a dollar I didn’t like. Black or white is the only way to run a successful [...]
“One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.” ~ Woody Allen Lying awake at night, when your troubles seem magnified? Business owners, as well as employees, spend a lot of time worrying about money. Worry is insidious; it tends to [...]
Rika shouted and clapped her hands. When I walked into her office to find out what the commotion was about (Rika seldom shouts – she’s more ladylike than the Queen of England), she announced, “The crow was stealing the squirrel’s peanuts.” Reciprocity Most people understand reciprocity to be one of, or a combination of, cross [...]
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