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Seth Godin’s realistic entrepreneur’s guide to venture capital

So many entrepreneurs come up short because they have unrealistic expectations about their ability to attract VC investor capital.  Sure, you may have a good business idea, but is that idea good enough to convince VC’s that you’re a good investment?  Seth Godin took a hard look at this one, here’s his "Realistic entrepreneur’s guide […]

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Focused Work Periods

One of the biggest complaints I hear in my work with business owners and professionals, is not having enough time to get things done.  There’s so much going on in the day to day workings of most companies, that there’s rarely time to stop and focus on one thing…or is there? There is, you just […]

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Learning To Say No

In business as in life, there are lessons to be learned, sometimes the hard way.  One of these lessons is learning to say no. And often, business professionals get themselves in trouble by not being able to do it. By not knowing when to say no, we leave ourselves open for lots of problems, here’s […]

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What Will Mortgage Companies Think of Next?

I’ve got a bone to pick with the mortgage industry.  Not all companies engage in these type of practices, but enough do to leave a bad  taste in my mouth.  The reason is that I’m getting sick of hearing some of the less than reputable ways that they are earning their money.  We’ve seen interest […]

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Compelling Case Studies

Case studies can be a great way to introduce your services to potential clients, but many are flat and sometimes boring, because they don’t get to the important parts of the story – the insights that solved your clients problems.  I want to thank Radjan Sodhi for his recent post about the Marketing Profs article: […]

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The Psychology of Pricing: It’s More Than Just Real Estate

Teri Karush Rogers wrote an interesting article in last months’ NY Times entitled “The Psychology of Pricing” in which she writes about the “message that figures carry to buyers”, “break points” and how and when to introduce “price cuts”.  These strategies don’t only apply to real estate of course but to many other businesses as […]

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Is It Selfish To Have Only One Child?

There’s an interesting dialogue going on over at the WSJ "Juggle" blog about the whole question of having more than one child.  Another emotionally charged issue judging from the comments this post has received…Sara Schaefer Muñoz writes: “So, when’s the next one coming?” Many first-time parents have, at one time or another, heard this question […]

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Hindsight on Making the Juggle Easier

"If only I knew then what I know now…" is a familiar refrain and one which was brought up on the Wall Street Journal’s "Juggle" blog today.  Sara Schaefer Muñoz  writes : "Would different choices earlier have made your juggle easier? We’ve gotten a lot of comments from childless readers who say that the issues […]

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Typos Do Matter And Other Things Grammatical

Every since my 11 year old kid starting “IMing” last summer, I’ve been somewhat outraged at the wholesale slaughter of the English language that takes place between kids in this communication portal. Not only is there often nothing of value discussed, (that’s a whole other topic) but the kids mis-spell and or use slang spelling […]

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More on Leadership Behaviors

In January, I wrote about "Leadership Behaviors" which tracked back to a post by Lance Secretan about a recent study by a Florida State University Professor that found that employees don’t leave companies, they leave bosses… I happened upon a post by Olivier Blanchard, on his Brand Builder blog which comes to the same conclusion, […]

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