As every business owner knows, there is a market advantage to becoming a “thought leader” in your industry and putting out killer content, that keeps you ahead of the competition. While that is achievable, it also takes A LOT of
All business is local…. Is that still true in today’s online world? Yes and no. It’s true that consumers shop with companies all over the world without a second thought. But it’s also true that people value local businesses and
It’s dreamtime for small business owners: You start a new business. Fast forward ten years. It’s time for your industry’s annual conference. You’re one of the keynote speakers. It’s standing room only when it’s your turn to talk. People line
My boys love of toast. In fact, if we’d let them, that’s all they’d eat. Despite the fact that they’re still quite young, we’ve discovered that they’ve already mastered the “well, if mom says no… let’s go ask dad for
Odds are, if I’m surfing the web, it’s from my phone. It’s just so much easier to use, if only because I’ve always got it with me. When I’m cuddling my kids and I need to look something up, I
I love going to networking events. So much so, in fact, that I’m actively engaged in several such groups. Some of those groups are specifically for finding new connections through a strong, like-minded network of high-level business men and women.
“My friend got an email saying you can get swine flu from eating canned pork, but it’s just spam.” “Jim: I bought this great new spam-blocking software last week. You should look into it. John: Yeah, I got 40 emails
I absolutely hate meal planning. That’s why my husband took over, actually. So that it’d actually get done (and we could keep our grocery bill to a respectable amount). The point, though, is that when we recognized a problem, we
Last year I officially realized that video has taken over the Internet. How did I discover this? I walked into my parents’ living room and saw my 70 year old dad watching a music video of Lorde’s “Royals” via YouTube
Labor Day came not that long ago. The weather where I live appears to believe that fall indeed starts at Labor Day rather than September 22. Suddenly, the highs weren’t that high anymore and the lows were getting lower. A
