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You Don’t Have Processes In Place? Wait! What?

Over the years, I am proud to admit, I have been pretty successful in helping a few businesses dramatically increase their growth. This has either been after slumps or at the beginning. There, I did it, I tooted my own horn… Anyway, this doesn’t have nearly as much to do with me as it […]

Congratulations Tumblr.

Congratulations go out to the team at Tumblr for building and selling a site that has helped expand the way we communicate with our friends and our audience. From a user standpoint, it will be interesting to see what Yahoo! does or doesn’t do to integrate it into the products it already offers.

Happy Birthday iTunes

Happy Birthday iTunes. A service that started a revolution in the way people listen and buy music. For better or for worse. Looking at my account, it seems my first iTunes purchase was on 6/7/2005 for the Complete U2. What was yours?

How Flexible Are You?

One of the hallmarks of my career, if you can call it a career, is that I have been able to adjust to change very readily. As I look around the world, I see people talk about being flexible and being able to adjust to change as something that they are totally into and cool […]

5 Ways You Can Become A Better Salesperson

When I talk to friends or clients about being better salespeople, they aren’t always receptive to the idea…maybe feeling like they don’t have the skills necessary or the ability to be a salesperson or to make sales. Trust me, everyone can sell. I’ll put it like a guy I knew in college told me when […]

Sell Yourself First

I’ve been reminded of an experience I had in Seattle a number of years ago. At the time I was working in events and partnerships at the Liquid Lounge inside the Experience Music Project in Seattle and one of my roles was relations with high value donors to the museum. One day a woman […]

Newsletter

I’ve been toying with the idea of adding a button for a weekly or monthly newsletter with project management tips, business cases, and advice. What would interest you? What topics do you think aren’t being covered enough? What have I written about that you didn’t really think I dug deep enough?