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Right now, it’s 12:45 pm. I guestimate I’ve got at least another 10 minutes before my espresso-soaked crotch dries itself out. In an attempt to pass the time, I’ve been running through the events of the past 12 hours in my head, looking for the elusive silver lining. Read More

Fiverr is that place where you can hire people to do just about anything small for five dollars. Here are the gigs you might want to combine to a similar type of video for your website. Read More

Many new business owners are wondering: “Is having a traditional brick and mortar store worth the trouble?” To provide some context, and make the decision-making process a bit less agonizing, here are some of the pros and cons of tangible brick institutions versus virtual business models. Read More

2014 will mark the 20th anniversary of Amazon’s founding. During the intervening 20-years, Jeff has offered business executives numerous valuable tips, including the following... Read More

One of the most cost effective selling techniques is also the one sales technique where many retailers either avoid all together, or completely fail at performing properly. This sales technique is of course the upsell. Read More

When you are networking, you meet lots of new people and collect business cards. A lot of people immediately add these new contacts directly to their ezine list. But, that is actually against the SPAM laws to do this without permission. So how can you get the new contacts on your list? Read More

To jump start your business, the single strongest step you can take is to start speaking. Here’s what I recommend you focus on to get in front of audiences and make this transition as quickly as possible. Read More

Thomas Jefferson said, “The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.” In order to please Google, many people will use two, three or four words where just one will do, and their writing quality suffers big time for it. When you write to the point, you stop whe Read More

When you hear the word lawyer, what do you think? Costly. Paperwork. Stressful. Reserved. Antagonistic. When you hear integrated counsel, what do you think? Probably nothing comes to mind, since you never heard it before. If you are asking yourself what does that mean. . . I just broke the generic Read More

Google’s advice that we should be creating web content for our readers, not for Google, is wise – at least in theory. The problem is, that Google is now penalizing those very activities that we should be doing to make great websites for our readers. Here are a few examples that I have noticed. Read More