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Getting the tool is pretty easy. Your friends tell you about what works for them, but the problem is that it may not work for you in what you do. The hard part is lining up the process step by step to create the experience for your own productivity and
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Building a business is about building systems. The remarkable advantage we have today is that those systems are much less expensive and more easy to evolve with changing business conditions today. This is what the internet has afforded knowledge workers that need to collaborate with teams and create customer experiences
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We have this strange capacity to ignore our own personal branding. It is ironic to see people pay so much attention to their personal appearance and ignore how they are perceived with their online presence, their digital assets and their personal PR circulating to the world with one search or
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The story about Columbus addressing his mockers and scorners long ago is part of an innovator's dilemma. People value knowledge in a funny way. They discount the risk, insight and brilliance of someone who goes first. Here's how Columbus handled the jealous remarks of his critics
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When we are in the grind, it is hard to be strategic in our planning and execution. This is where an outsider such as an advisor, coach or consultant can help you get above the tree line and see the forest from the trees. You may be working hard, but
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The great thing about the problems you face is that it is likely common, not unique. If you have the problem, then people that are doing similar work are likely facing the same problems. If you get an itch to solve the problem and work through it thoroughly, you are
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I had some free time during these hot SXSW days and got out with friends to Lick ice cream in Austin. I love businesses like this. They understand they are in the packaging business and made the experience of ice cream something simple and good. The menu is modular and
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It's very rare that I hear people admit what they are truly feeling when it comes to change or making a right decision for themselves or their business. People are masters at masking their fears. After all, much of our schooling and institutions did a great job of
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One of the great and scary things about business is that there are no certainties. It's a game of probabilities. When you make a decision to do something, it may work. There's not a formula as in some of the hard sciences where doing certain things
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It's not your customer's job to know what they don't. That's your job. It's your job to lead them and help them see possibilities which are hidden from their worldview. It's part of the value of working with
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Generating revenue on the web has a few predominant approaches. I have built and worked with businesses across the spectrum and thought I would give a bit of an overview from an entrepreneur's point of view on what revenue strategies could be a fit for you. It'
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There's a false empowerment that all of us feel with such ease of access to tools and people like never before. They fool us into thinking that things must be a bit easier. Things look easier from the outside. However, when we get up close to a problem,