Yes, It Works
One of the best ways to keep in touch with your customers is still e-mail, e-mail marketing to be specific and yes, it works. In fact, it works better than ANY other form of marketing. If you are like me, Read More …
Category: work
Too Busy
Are you really too busy to pick up the phone when a customer calls, or to pick up but then put them on hold indefinitely? If you have an established brand, an established location and a great product or service Read More …
Not Chosen
Tonight, yes, it is late. It was a full day on the road – out early, home late and back out almost immediately to a meeting – where, I was not chosen as an elected official for the local business Read More …
Self Awareness
There are lots of things that people do really well…many things that they do OK and some that they don’t really have the capacity to do – at all. Knowing what you can and can’t do on your own is Read More …
Change If It’s Not Working
It isn’t easy, but you have to change if it’s not working – either your plan, your actions or your messaging. It’s good to take a step back, think about what you really want and to modify what you do. Read More …
Time to Reflect
It is the weekend and I have been thinking about how the year is almost over. I wanted – no, I was given – time to reflect. Events gave me the opportunity to take many, many moments to think about Read More …
No Time Like the Present
There is no time like the present. Do what you need to do, now. Be organized and only touch each thing once. Don’t put off till tomorrow what you can do today. All of these things are much more easily Read More …
Time Changes
Yes, time changes everything…or does it? We just went off of Daylight Saving Time here on the east coast and in most parts of the US. Yesterday I read a few debates about why we do it still and why Read More …
Creating Ourselves
I love to see all of the Halloween’s costumes, but even more so the most clever re-creation of ourselves each year. So far, for the adults – Jon Cohen. His “hot stuff” Mr. Siracha Sauce was indeed unique and not Read More …
Professional Volunteers
Sometimes, the experts are the professional volunteers. It is fall and that means, for so many organizations, a final push to raise money for their non-profit works. In schools, often there is a vendor who supplies the school with the Read More …