Be the Coach not the Manager

Employees want to help. One thing that couldn’t have been more apparent in my experiences in management was that employees inherently want to do better. They want to be a part of a team working towards a common goal. Accomplish a project and acommplish in a better manner than it has been done in the [Read More …]

Startup Mistake: Pairing your business with the wrong vendors.

In the early stages of starting a business, no matter what that business may be, you are going to be looking for vendors. It may be manufacturers of products, services to assist your business, software providers etc. Whatever the case may be, you are (I hope) looking for assistance in starting your business, don’t burn [Read More …]

Spread the Knowledge

I am going to try something out that I implemented a while back on Papertree Design. Short little posts sharing something exciting and or brilliant that I found over the course of the week. If you don’t know, I am pretty active on Twitter and have adopted the habit of reading a lot of what [Read More …]

Brainstorming the Future of Viral Thinking

When I first purchased the domain, ViralThinking.com over a year ago I had big plans, loved the name and saw a great idea. That idea has never exactly been given the chance to materialize. While I have more than enough on my plate to keep me busy at the moment and I have quite often [Read More …]

Business As Usual

Take a bit of time to get started before you can take the time to give up. Regardless of what the late night television commercials or the one page web sites might claim, the internet is not going to make you rich overnight. Sure there is a pot of gold to be found but it’s [Read More …]

A Better Product Through My Own Mistakes

Morning thoughts and business inspiration. One thing that I am not terribly afraid of when approaching my own business is the thought of making mistakes. In fact over the past ten years I have made mistakes in business on a fairly frequent basis, some that have certainly cost me money. Call it lack of experience [Read More …]

Why Your Blog Titles May Be Failing You

You’ve got a lot to write about, your brain is overflowing with fresh content. You set out about two and a half months ago to get with the times and start yourself a blog. After a few weeks of tinkering, you finally threw in the towel and hired someone to craft what you had in [Read More …]

Concentrate Your Efforts

In other words focus on becoming good and I mean really good at one thing at a time. I think that this applies to business in general but for the purposes of this article, I will focus on my own experiences to make my point. To start I am guilty of this myself. Back when [Read More …]