Recovering from a mistake
You can cry about the energy, money and time wasted or you can dust yourself off and keep walking forward, chin up, eyes focused on your goals. Which is it going to be? Having run my own business for 15 [...]
Growing Your Business – Easy as 1-2-3
When I make a Connection Call or One-on-One Coffee Meeting, I ask my new contact the same 3 questions. It's great research for me, it's fascinating, and it gives me a handle on how I might be able to help [...]
How Did I Even Get Here?
Were you ever diverted from your chosen route and now driving in an unfamiliar road, take a turn here a turn there and wind up getting to your destination even faster than you would have, had you followed your original [...]
It’s Never About The Money
I feel like this song is stuck in my head. I recently gave a presentation to the Passaic County Economic Development Marketing Day for Small Business Owners, and one of the points I made was that when a prospect pushes [...]
Where to Spread Your Seeds
You’ve probably heard by now that Google is retiring their Google+ “social networking” platform. There are probably thousands of social sites in the world today, and not every one of them is going to gain the traction they need to [...]
Start With Your Mission
You may have heard the statement, “Start with your WHY?” The reasons to go into business are very common – to be able to make enough money to support your household without having to answer to someone else. You wanted [...]