H.R. Strategist Shares 3 Tips for Firing Up Your Workplace How many employees roll their eyes during meetings to discuss new initiatives? How often do they scramble to complete a task not because they love it, but because they’re afraid of the consequences if they don’t? How many mutter “not in my job description” when […]
In speaking to business owners and “people in career transitions” nationwide, I am often called upon to speculate about the future. For example, I am frequently asked: What businesses should I be thinking of starting now? What businesses will still be around in ten years’ time? Where will tomorrow’s jobs be? Will there BE a […]
Experts Share 3 Crucial Planning Steps More and more small business owners are selling their companies, with sales hitting a four-year high earlier this year in the United States, and Canada predicting its largest small business turnover ever in the next five years. “Many of our CEOs are baby boomers approaching retirement age,” says Kathleen […]
Marketers in the US have been big believers in visual branding using carefully designed graphic standards to convey their core identity. Sound has been overlooked. In past years, the primary audio-related question facing marketers has been what music to use in a TV or radio campaign. Often an afterthought and usually licensed from popular music, this […]
I was privileged this week to give a keynote address on “Building a World Class e-Commerce Business” for the semiannual Sellers’ Conference for Online Entrepreneurs (SCOE) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This major networking event, now in its 9th year, is one of the leading conferences for online retailers, wholesalers and distributors, but is an absolute “must […]