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For creative and entrepreneurial types, their work means giving up the cosy office environment and going it alone. The solitude gives them the peace and space needed to come up with innovative ideas. But the loneliness can be crushing and seriously sap your motivation. As a home worker, I have come up with some tried and tested strategies for keeping motivation high when you’re working alone. Read More

A meeting that is not constructively planned, lacks a purpose, is not properly conducted and ends with no action points is exactly that. Yet, in business, a substantial amount of our time is spent in meetings that seem to be constructed from the off-set to fail. Read More

Back in the day...Kings AND Queens were known to kill the messenger if the message they carried was to the Royal Person's disliking. Corporate brands may be our royalty today. Because it seems we may have a similar situation today.... Read More

Natalie MacNeil of Garage Entrepreneurs discusses the rise of young entrepreneurs and how the current economy has had an effect on new graduates. Read More

The only thing that can eclipse the sheer scale and magnitude of the Tiger Woods brand is what he has been able to achieve on the golf course. To be certain, none of these allegations can diminish the successes that he has realized on the links. However, advertisers and sponsors have taken his “superman-like” achievements on the golf course, applied that magic to the image of “Tiger, the man”, Read More

Warning: A bit of a straight commercial post here.

If you’ve subscribed to the Duct Tape Marketing newsletter or read this blog for any amount of time you know I use social media, talk about social media, and generally love exploring it and finding very practical ways to use this new toolset.

Now, not everyone has the same passion I do, but most small business owners have concluded they can Read More

When you have to resort to suing your competitors to regain market share, something is seriously flawed with your view of your customers. Read More

Each year has four seasons - Spring, summer, autumn, and winter (It is in the winter that we have most trouble.)

Each work project has the same four seasons. Spring, summer, autumn and winter. We sometimes find ourselves in a “winter of discontent”.

Thios article discusses how to ride out the storm of a recession. Read More

Contest for new business startup idea for 2010, and for women only. Hosted by several Canadian companies, the winner will receive tools, education, press an coaching to get their new business idea off the ground. Article includes great resources for Canadian business startups. Read More

In a recent telephone chat with FuelNet about getting new customers, August Turak explained that the Trappists are guided by a management philosophy that has six basic tenets, applicable to companies large and small. Read More