Is This The Best Time To Be In Business?

If you look back with envy at the entrepreneurs of the 1950s and 1960s and wish you had the opportunities they had, then take a look around at where you are.  The landscape may look different, but this is also such a time. Here are the things that I know: the rules of...

Story Power!

“If history were taught as stories, it’d never be forgotten” said Rudyard Kipling, which seemed a fitting opening statement for a talk entitled: ‘Stories Sell’.   As a stand-in for the scheduled speaker at my monthly networking event,...

What Does Marketing Mean To You?

I’m not sure how comfortable I feel about the way some people seem to view marketing.  Don’t get me wrong, I want people to buy what I sell, I just don’t like the idea of shoving it in their faces, or pretending I’m giving some great...