Make Money - NOT Excuses

I recently was asked to be a guest speaker at a very good friend’s real estate coaching group.  The topic of interest was multi tasking and staying organized when you have multiple things going on.  An example is having a full time job, working your real estate business, handing family, kids events, and keeping it [...]

I love Pacino in this movie. Recently I have been hearing from friends and colleagues, all excuses. Most are being eaten up by the “economy”, BS. Others are being controlled, yet own their own business. Let me tell you people, what we get from our day, from our business, from our [...]

Yesterday a friend of mine gave me a flare pin that reads “I refuse to participate in this sluggish economy”.  I prefer the tag line “I don’t do recessions!”.  Things have been going very well these past couple of weeks, thus have not had the luxury of posting many blog posts.  But the one thing [...]

Here’s a freebie to all my restaurant customers. Not sure if you want to do this in your restaurant, but fun to do at home. More fun stuff at Tim Ferriss’s. Enjoy!

A week doesn’t go by that I don’t get asked to “deal” on my prices for our advertising programs.  If you can relate to this, you will laugh at this video…

Congratulations, you landed your first 14-top birthday dinner party!  Nice, now its time to start your in house marketing list.  Did you get all of their info? What did you do for retention?
This is exactly what my wife, Bessie, asked a prospective client last night as we sat around over a drink (and watched the [...]

Today I had the pleasure of meeting Kimberly Small, Co-Founder of Connective Mobile http://www.connectivemobile.com/.  Kim has brought a whole new meaning to the term “Mobile Marketing”.  This is a very cool idea and is actually giving me ideas on how to co-market our two products.  How cool would it be to receive a text message [...]

Return on Relationship is a spin off from return on investment or ROI.  When I heard this term being used this morning it just made sense.  How many relationships are you nurturing today to help your business tomorrow?  Some people are watching the sky falling (with this small economic glitch going on) while others are looking for [...]

Today I had the privilege of meeting one of the founders of http://pickylist.com/ .  Very cool guy, Mark Anderson from Fishers Indiana.  Mark has a very cool story and has a very cool product that will explode in the near future.  A site that allows businesses to advertise, individuals to list items for sale, social “twitters” [...]

Steve Jobs spoke of “connecting the dots”, at his commencement speech to the graduating class of Stanford University in June 2005.  This story has touched me in a way that has made me realize how our experiences have molded us and taken us to where we are today.  This is a touching story, a must read…one [...]