Small business owners interested in disruptive innovation, executing money making ideas that will change their market, or successfully executing their niche marketing strategy as required, must avoid asking this question at all costs and at all times. Have you ever been asked the question, “what is my drop-dead date?” Or, even worse, have you asked [...]
‘Disruptive Innovation’ Killer… “When Is My Drop Dead Date?”
April 18, 2012 By Be the First to Comment
Marketing Strategy and the Apostle James
January 2, 2012 By Be the First to Comment
The Apostle James taught his followers to be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger (James 1:19). What does this have to do with marketing strategy? Rephrased for us marketers and entrepreneurs… Be swift to hear (the customer), slow to speak and strong to act. 3 Keys to Great Marketing Strategy Swift to [...]
Dump Your Tasklist Now – #1 New Years Resolution
December 28, 2011 By Be the First to Comment
Jason Jennings in his national bestseller “it’s not the BIG that eat the SMALL…it’s the FAST that eat the SLOW,” taught that working longer or harder has less effect on proper execution and success than does eliminating tasks that have no real effect on a projects success. Removing speed bumps (improve effectiveness, efficiency, results) is [...]
Small Business Forecast: 100% Chance of Rain
June 23, 2009 By Be the First to Comment
Becoming a Successful Entrepreneur Ever thought deeply about what a successful entrepreneur and business owner really is? What entrepreneur ideas they had to make them so wildly successful? What problem solving skills they possessed? Quite frankly, to understand what a successful entrepreneur really is, takes only a brief look into their soul, their spirit to [...]
BFHAG: Not For Small Businesses
June 17, 2009 By Be the First to Comment
All of you have heard of, I’m sure, BFHAG, Big, Fat, Hairy, Audacious Goals. The attainment or achievement of BFHAG’s is every company and entrepreneur’s biggest dream. Achieving a goal that revolutionizes the business world, that changes the way consumers purchase, will surely bring huge financial rewards. Knowing that BFHAG’s can bring us fame and [...]
Identify, Implement, and Expand: Success-Leveraging Business Model
June 15, 2009 By Be the First to Comment
The new success model in the business world is light, lean, and fast. Companies with heavy infrastructure these days are moving too slow for the market and quickly find themselves lagging behind smaller, more innovative, up-and-coming businesses. This new model has been driven at the core by collaborative innovation models that leverage the experience and [...]
Confront Reality: A Lesson My Dog Taught Me
June 11, 2009 By Be the First to Comment
To all you dog owners… For about one year my kids have been pleading for a puppy to add to the family. For about a year I held firm, saying “we’re not getting a dog cause you don’t take care of it.” Some of you may remember having this same conversation in your own home. [...]
Deliver the Goods. What Else Matters?
June 9, 2009 By Be the First to Comment
In a business world plagued with mediocrity, doing what you say is all you’ve got. Earlier in my career, I stepped in to a product launch plagued with problem after problem. One problem, however, threatened the launch in its entirety which was just 8 weeks away (and the product still had to be shipped to [...]
“By Your Hand”… Success Is Up To You!
June 2, 2009 By Be the First to Comment
What holds people back… from succeeding in business, from making the money their business could achieve, from being able to work less and make more? In my 15 years experience it is the refusal of people to accept responsibility for their success and failures, by not accepting that what they become is really up to [...]
Lao-Tzu: Success Happens
May 24, 2009 By Be the First to Comment
The Tao Te Ching (writings of Lao-Tzu) offers critical insight to the business owner, innovative marketer, and entrepreneur. In our world of high-pressured expectations and lack of patience, we try and force things to happen which inevitably leads to our failure. The practice of letting things happen is a key component to the Asian business [...]
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