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When she passed away from breast cancer in 1979 at the tender age of 31, the world lost the voice of an angel.

I hope this dedication to her most famous song will help you find your UNIQUE business and blogging voice, one that sets you apart from the crowd Read More

The other day, my friend Kelley Robertson wrote an outstanding article: Is Your Sales Training Putting Your Sales Team At Risk? The article prompted me to think about: Why is product and sales training separated? What would happen if we integrated our sales methodologies and training into our product training? Read More

Some small businesses can be founded with one market in mind only to find a totally different market where their products and services are much better accepted. One example is Matt Paxton, whose four-year-old company Clutter Cleaner started with the idea of relocating seniors only to discover a much better market in aiding "extreme clutterers," those who collect so many things it begin interfering with their lives. Read More

In this review of the book "Social Media 101" by Chris Brogan, Pierre DeBois gives an overview of the tactics and tools you should have at your command after reading. From blogs, to video and audio to LinkedIn, this review gives you a peek into subjects Brogan's book covers. Social media has become a major field for businesses and marketers of all kind. This review suggests another possible resource teaching small business owners to harness the power of social media for their needs Read More

Everyone seems to agree on the need for more entrepreneurship and small business activity to rebuild the economy after the harsh recession. Here's a cool report from Inc magazine writers Adam Bluestein and Amy Barrett with some concrete suggestions, specifically 16 steps, to get us to an environment more friendly to the kinds of entrepreneurship experts say we need to rebuild our economy. Can we make them a reality? Read More

An organization may spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to create the ‘perfect’ ad for them; where it encompasses the values and beliefs of the company through a single television spot. However, these are arguably having smaller impacts on sales. On the other hand, you have a source of basically free advertising with built-in audiences and tremendous potential for ancillary PR through user-generated advertisings. Read More

The Japanese are very smart people, and customer service is just one aspect that they've figured out ahead of the rest of the world. Seeing business in their culture can be an eye-opening experience. Read More

This is a perhaps unorthodox way to come up with startup ideas: walk around your house or apartment, and look for hot spots. A hotspot can be an area of high information density, clutter, stress, disorganization, or any place that has a suboptimal solution. Then think about a web or cloud solution to that hot spot. The author lists a few examples Read More

Trying to find an email address for a sales prospect? Here is how to use Google to find those hard to find prospects email addresses Read More

What the HELL are people thinking? Or are they not thinking at all?

Some things have to be seen to be believed.. Read More