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Showing Up

Today I didn’t really feel like going on my schedule run. I went anyway. I didn’t feel like calling back a few clients to check in. I did it anyway. I didn’t feel like sitting down to write a blog post. But I am composing one now. The point is that often we don’t want […]

Mistakes

Mistakes are the cost of learning. Mistakes are a necessary evil. Mistakes are opportunities to learn how not to do something. Mistakes are chances to better hone your ideas. Mistakes are your friend.

Pricing Strategies….Or Amazon vs. Apple

In my business selling tickets, I’ve always tried to compete on price and service. While I can’t always beat every price, I can always control the service and usually the two together wins me most battles. This got me to thinking about the iPad vs. Fire and pricing strategies in general. I just got a […]

Sharing The Idea

I’m a big reader. I keep a list of the books I read and post them at the end of each year so that I can maybe offer up some suggestions to others for their reading choices. Having said that, I am a big fan of the library and, especially, this new ability for people […]

The Next Logical Step…

When we talk about building relationships in business, we often start from the outset by looking at the end point. The end result of that relationship. That might be a sale. It might be a referral. It might be nothing at the time. But we never really talk about the process. And, that process is […]

The 3 Areas Your Business Competes In

Black Friday got me to thinking about some of the things business try to do to win customers. After watching the news and reading the accounts of all of the mayhem that seemed to pop up in almost every state at some Black Friday sale, I reminded myself that there are 3 ways that a […]

6 Questions on Perseverance with Paul Jun

This is the first in my series of 6 question interviews with people that I admire, work with or think that they have an interesting perspective on a topic that I want to explore more. The first person I am going present is Paul Jun. He writes a blog called Junhax. I first found Paul’s […]