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You pour your heart, soul, effort, time and wisdom into your original biz-blog posts and articles. But what about ownership of and rights to your ideas once you hit "ENTER" or "SUBMIT?" The answers may surprise you Read More

Something that grates with me is why so many downright silly interview questions continue to be asked even though they are clearly pointless & invariably just waste time?? here are my 10 of the MOST STUPID interview questions EVER Read More

Well, if you’re like me, you’ve often glanced at the glossy mag entitled “Consumer Reports” at the local supermarket checkout line…but if you’re like me you seldom every buy. I mean honestly, who needs to know the “Top 10 Refridgerator Models for 2010!” anyways…I mean come on, eh? There’s only so much to research and once you determine how many Canadians you can stock in the “beer crisper,” how much more do you need to know, eh? Ahh…but that’s not ALL that this well known, big-rep magazine offers to it’s readers, I’ve just learned! Read More

Today I gave presentations to Grade 9 and 12 students at Carlton Comprehensive High School for career day. I told them about what I do and I gave them a couple of questions to try out being a business consultant. I came up with four rules for them to find their best career choice Read More

Last week I wrote about a door-to-door sales experience that bothered me (posts here and here). This weekend another salesperson knocked on my door, and it didn't go much better.. Read More

Hit you prospects over the head all day everyday with non-stop marketing come-ons (spam really) they never really asked for. It's done on Twitter, in other social media, on blogs and in e-mail. It's called whack a mole marketing. And according to Chris Brogan, it's simply got to stop. Before all your followers unfollow you, all the people on your e-mail list block your submissions and you loose your entire community, have a look at Chris's impassioned plea Read More

Leaving comments on blog posts can be a great way to promote yourself and your product. There are rules though and here are 10 tips you should consider Read More

Dissatisfaction is a prerequisite to any sale. It provides the compelling reason for your dream client to change, it provides the motivation to change, and the narrative that good storytelling requires. Real opportunities don’t exist without dissatisfaction Read More

Last month at Chirp, Twitter’s Developer Conference, the social networking company revealed that they have now surpassed 100 million users; 105,779,710 to be exact. On top of that, they get about 300,000 new users each day, receives 180 million unique visitors a month, and 75% of traffic comes from outside of the Twitter website. Read More

Over the past month, I have had an ongoing dialogue with Tom Peters over Twitter. The content of our 140 character limited conversation has been the power of first impressions. Having decided that there is nothing that can be achieved in the short period of the seven seconds in which many judgments are formed, I decided to try to “go Mandela” and simply smile. This open letter to Tom Peters is my report and recommendation Read More