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…

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 [...]

It has been made very clear to me that “we are in an economic recession”. Whether or not I believe this or not is another question. I do believe that business has slowed down, and that it is harder for small businesses to stay in business. What I keep hearing constantly day after day is [...]