Are You Resolute? Do you realize that over 50% of Americans make New Year’s resolutions? Do you know that over 80% of them never succeed? So why do most resolutions fail? They fail, because they are usually big overachieving goals like quitting smoking, exercising more, eating better and so on. The people who succeed, understand the difference…
You’re sitting in traffic or at a stoplight daydreaming about your trip to Mexico, a dream home or maybe that concert you are going to tonight…what happens next? Someone toots their horn, and you feel a mix of embarrassment and anger. People and businesses are constantly doing their best to get your attention, sometimes to wake you up…
Do you like airline travel? My wife hates flying, but I have no problem with it. When I worked at Arthur Andersen, I always kept a suitcase handy, because I never knew when I would be shuttled off to a destination for a video interview. Miami, San Francisco, Houston, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Charlotte, Atlanta, Orlando and Albany were…
Come On Feel The Noise… How many emails do you get per day, per week, per year? My guess is too many. I get 100 per day and that’s down from 250 per day. I worked really hard to remove myself from email lists that I never subscribed to and others that have become irrelevant as of today! Email is…
Do you or your business have brand? Of course they do. Can you verbalize it? Now, if I was to ask 100 of your customers what that brand is, what percentage of their answers would match yours? A brand is so much more than just a logo; it’s flavor, service, handshakes, uniforms, colors, smells, flooring…
Don’t Wait Till You Go All Nancy Kerrigan “Why, Why, WHY? Have you ever been hacked? I have, and it cost me over $10,000 to recover from it. I was running a web server seven years ago (if you listened to the podcast, I said 10, but it feels like 20), and I gave a free website to…
“If I had a hammer, I’d hammer in the morning!” You may be too young to remember this song, and I am not sure if there has been a remake of the 60’s hit by Peter, Paul & Mary. It was a song written by Pete Seeger that spoke of revolution and change a coming. Websites and the Internet…
Takeoff… We sometimes take things for granted. I headed to Orlando today to speak at a conference on social media. At the airport, I stopped to take a picture of our plane that was outside the window. This million pound monstrosity lifts hundreds of people plus thousands of pounds of cargo off of the ground and gets us from…
The Moat How romantic were the Knights of the Roundtable? They knew how to protect their domicile. They had a castle with big walls, and then they dug a moat (a big trench) around their castle. Why? To protect their people and to keep out intruders. Then, they built a drawbridge that could be raised or lowered based on what they wanted to…
Do You Quack or Bark? You most certainly have heard the phrase, “If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck…then it must be a duck.” A duck is very unique, docile and friendly enough to eat out of your hand at the park. Ducks quack. They are relatively harmless, unless they are swimming…