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There's an old adage that "The Customer Is Always Right!" But, de-facto, that means that we as businesspeople are ALWAYS WRONG!

It's a policy that makes a mockery of us as business-owners, professionals and human-beings! Ir takes away our rights and dignity!

So, what's the answer Read More

Learn about the different types of bankruptcy, from Chapter 7 to Chapter 11 to Chapter 15. A look at different bankruptcy options for businesses and individuals Read More

Recently, Newsweek reported that research shows that creativity in America is declining for the first time. Kyung Hee Kim at the College of William & Mary discovered after analyzing roughly 300,000 intelligence test scores of adults and children that since 1990 creativity scores have slowly been declining. The most serious decline occurred in the scores of children in kindergarten through sixth grade. The potential consequences could be damaging to our nation’s long-term economic growth as these youths are the future of our country and creativity and innovation are a large part of our nation’s backbone. A recent IBM poll of 1,500 CEOs identified creativity as the #1 leadership competency of the future. Below are 7 ways for correcting this issue before it becomes a huge problem Read More

Had a lunch meeting with a sales exec this past Friday, a prospective client. A colleague brought us together and it was the first time I’d had contact with the man. Ever leave a meeting and have this feeling that the other person was somehow different/unique/better in some way, but couldn’t quite put your finger on why? That’s the feeling I’ve had all weekend and it finally hit me why I felt that way Read More

Aisling Foley has 23 years marketing experience in the IT industry. Before founding her marketing consulting business in 2007, Aisling worked as Head of Marketing for CR2 in Dublin and Dubai & prior to CR2, she worked as Marketing Manager in Sabre Holdings in Dublin Read More

Have any habits that might annoy your customers? Have any bad habits you thought you had dropped, but haven’t? The answer, of course is, “Yes.” Here’s a quick video to help stay focused on your not-so-spiffy behavior patterns Read More

Japanese soldier Hiroo Onoda spent 29 years of his life thinking WWII was still raging...and he fought on! Perhaps never in modern history has an episode contained so much misinformation, miscommunication and ignorance of "The Writing on the Wall!"

Business lessons from this historical episode abound.. Read More

When I was in college I ran a typing service. This was back when most people wrote rough drafts in longhand and typed the final drafts onto a computer...whic Read More

I promised Susan Oakes a couple of days ago to post this article from a blogger I always enjoy reading, Sonia Simone of Copyblogger, in response to Susan's post "Your Customers Have The Need But Do They Have The Desire?" Check it out on her blog, M4B Marketing, or here at BizSugar posted about four days ago. In the post, in turn a response to another post from Stoney deGeyter of Search Engine Guide, Susan argues that "You need to work out the difference between those customers having a need and those that actually have a desire to take action." Susan is definitely right as far as she goes, but Sonia takes it one step further. Those customers with a "desire to take action" may just be the tip of the iceberg!
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It’s a Saturday. It’s past 5:00 PM. I’ve been locked up in an orchestra rehearsal room with eight other unpaid compatriots for the last seven hours. That was after two hours of prep at home this morning. It was an “extra” meeting of the Cobb Symphony Orchestra Board of Trustees. We’re in the midst of a search for a new Executive Director and trying to figure out how to survive financially in an economy that has absolutely hammered non-profits coast to coast. We’ll be fine, but only because the group is so fully committed. The time and effort, though, is really wearing. It’s almost like having a second full time job Read More