When you are buried in the day-to-day operations of running your business, it’s easy to get tunnel vision. Your nose is to the grindstone everyday just getting it done. Such a limited perspective is one of the biggest reasons business owners fail to seize growth opportunities. Myopic vision limits your ability to think about the […]
When you strip away all of the notions that we pile on top of what it takes to be successful at selling you get down to the basic fact that to be a success at sales you need to understand and act on some universal attributes of human nature. If you only focus on what […]
Entrepreneurship and small business need to be front and center during this election cycle. After all, Americans are concerned about their economic future, and entrepreneurs are critical to getting the economy back on a strong growth track. Now with Super Tuesday results giving Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton the lead, who would be the best […]
Want to buy a small business? How about a small town too? That way you can be the town’s major business figure as well as its mayor. You wouldn’t have to worry about the town passing onerous ordinances that put you out of business, right? Swett, South Dakota, is a 6-plus acre ghost town (in […]
One of the biggest changes of the last year that small business marketers need to understand and learn how to leverage, is the rise of “instant video.” I’m talking about all the live-steam apps that have invaded mobile devices, like Periscope, Meerkat and Blab, which is the focus of this article. The big difference with […]