Is YOUR Price Right?
Small business owners generally aren't very schooled in how to set prices for their products or services.
Inspiring Confidence
Inspiring confidence is a key attribute of a successful small business owner or entrepreneur. Confidence from whom?
Hone Your Listening Skills
Listening is a skill that few people have mastered. And if you find one who has, you can be sure that they are respected and well-liked…
Difficult Conversations in Business
Whether you succeed or fail in business and in life could be a matter of how you manage difficult conversations-or if you ever have them at all.
Running a Lean Business: 10 Ways to Save Your Small Business Money
Though the economy is showing signs of strengthening, I hope none of us forget the lessons of the past two years.
Small Business-What's Your Purpose
Of course, I'm talking about your small business purpose. But life and business are intertwined.
The Future of Computing?
Oh. The Consumer Electronics Show...filled with all kinds of toys, gadgets, productivity and entertainment devices.
How to achieve personal freedom
Today I wrap up the series on interruptions and time wasters with a challenge for you. If you could only work 2 hours a day, that's right, 2 hours a day…
Business meetings, effective or a time waster?
Today we'll continue the series on interruptions and time wasters. To really focus and get more…
How to get control over interruptions and time wasters
Interruptions and time wasters, the things that keep us from doing what's really important. In my last post, how to do more while working less,
How to do more while working less.
I was introduced to a concept awhile back called Parkinson's Law. I read about it in the Tim Ferriss book The 4-Hour Workweek.
Beating Frustration in Your Small Business
Last time I told you about the 80/20 principle and recommended you read The 80/20 Principle. Take a minute to review that post on Pareto's Law.
Pareto's Law - more time, more profits, less headaches!
Want to change your life? I did when I "met" Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto. Actually he passed away in 1923 but I was introduced…
Required Reading for Small Business Owners
We all know our world is changing rapidly (who can believe that in 2003, YouTube did not exist? Nor did Facebook or iPhones or geolocation).
Small Business: 10 Keys to Real Profits in Slow Markets
I've relayed a lot of information to you about small business issues: marketing, branding, legalities, human resources and management.
Who's Your Banker?
Watching the banking industry over the last 20 years is a bit like watching Pac-Man. One big bank eats another bank and is then eaten by a larger bank.
Lifestyle Design: Do You Know What You Want?
Lifestyle design is a new catch-all term for building a life and business/career, free from traditional constraints…
Customer Service & HR Lessons via Zappos.com
This weekend I watched a piece on Zappos.com on CBS Sunday Morning. For anyone unfamiliar with Zappos…
Is Your Personality Killing Business?
Is your personality killing your business? We all know someone who seems to chronically get in their own way. Short-tempered and short-sighted…
Congress Wants to Spend Your Money!
With all the difficulties in the economy it seems the government wants to ramp up health coverage for adult children through age 26...