It's been a few weeks and hopefully the sting of your broken bracket has faded enough to apply some lessons from college basketball to our businesses. Living in Indiana, I was rooting for the Purdue Boilermakers to win it all. In my family we even have a Purdue grad,...
Congratulations, you have successfully completed 6 months of 2022. How do you feel about that? Well first off, for making it this far this year, you and everyone else gets a participation trophy. However the real trophies in life come from more than just showing up....
As owners or managers of a business, it’s our responsibility to not only figure out how to keep our business functioning properly and effectively, but also how to GROW our business. Staying even or going backward are not options. Growth is vital! Growing a business...
Now that we've made it this far in a once in a century pandemic, I thought I'd share with you a piece that I wrote for radio insiders. First, the backstory. This summer, radio consultant Loyd Ford reached out to me to be a guest columnist on his website that is...
"Keep your friends close and your enemies closer" is a sometimes quoted and often misquoted saying that is credited to the book The Art of War from over 4000 years ago and the Godfather Part 2 movie a mere 40 years ago. While much has been said about that quote, today...
Comparing one product or service or one business to another is always acceptable... when you are the consumer. But as a business selling itself, comparing comes with caution! Make sure you’ve given deep consideration before you compare your product or service with...
Is Advertising Rocket Science? You’ve heard the expression, “It’s not rocket science”, but when it comes to advertising is science a good thing or a bad thing? The word “Science” comes from the Latin word “Scientia” which means knowledge. If advertising was a...
It's a weird and wacky world out there right now. We are hearing stories about the record number of people who are filing for unemployment, the devastating stories of people dying from this mystery virus that we have yet to get a handle on because it is new to the...
Show Them You Appreciate Them! The New Technology World we live in has certainly made some things easier, but in return, it has taken away a lot of the old fashioned customer service and appreciation. There was a time when you made a purchase and you might have...