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Comparing the era of big brand, product-focused businesses to today's rise of the new entrepreneurial personal brand Read More

The other I posed this somewhat trick laden question on Twitter – “Is making something easier to understand dumbing it down or smartening it up?” The answers I got were mixed. Some obviously saw that I was suggesting it’s actually harder to make some easy to understand. Others clearly felt that it somewhat of a disservice to try to make things that were complicated seem simple Read More

10 strategies to get better results in your life and business.
A little bit of self assessment can go a long way, if you're suffering with productivity or motivation issues, maybe something here might help Read More

The about us page on a website serves as the great purpose of informing our visitors what our business does and what we can help them with. However, it is not the coolest kid in school and truly how many of your website visitors actually make it there? Probably not too many, since the home page seems to be the place to give a little snidbit about the business and the about us page is just a place to go for more detail. Let’s reinvent this page to make it popular and make it a place our visitors will want to check out on a day-to-day basis.
Here is what you can do to make the about us page cool for your viewer Read More

If you are in the market for business financing you may have noticed that the SBA is tentatively reporting a healthy increase in small business lending.

However, finding the right bank for your small business financing needs can still be a time-consuming challenge.

So just who is lending? And what is your best strategy for finding and approaching a bank? Here are five tips to help you find small business friendly banks Read More

Keyword research is a funny thing. You can gain a lot of knowledge about what words people use when searching on the engines, but it tells very little about what a person wants when they search using a particular keyword or phrase. The intent behind the search is the missing component. But I don't know of any keyword tools that get far enough inside the searcher's heads to know what exactly the searcher's intent is Read More

"Today is is an exciting day for me. It’s my first day on my new job of working for myself. I can already see that there is a big difference in working for a boss and being the boss. Another thing that strikes me about my first day on the job is how different certain things are from my previous job. I’m getting the feeling that maybe I have been missing out on some benefits. Am I totally off base or could this be true? Read More

Please click my unique URL and check out Fast Company's "influence
project." Read Mark Borden's post, Popularity, Ego, and Influence - What Is the Influence Project? Spread the good word! This could be an interesting "experiment" and maybe I could use it as an example in my new course on social media this autumn. Read More

Business failures, electoral defeats and personal and professional setbacks. Perhaps a string of setbacks the likes of which are unequalled in modern history.

Yet he became President of the United States!

Come see how.. Read More

Sure, sending newsletters is a great way to send information to your customers, but what information are you getting back? You might think collecting information at subscription is the only way to get data out of your newsletter, but there are several other ways you can get your company newsletter to deliver valuable customer insights Read More