Got Social Media?

Unless you’ve been living in a cave, you are aware by now that social media is no longer a fad, but a tactic. What may have been a novelty for a while has now evolved into one of the most effective, and also most challenging, methods to market your business and brand yourself online. What [...] Read more »

The Art of Teaching Your Children to Give

Teaching your children the importance of giving will help you to raise caring, confident, and financially savvy adults. Read more »

Children and Money: Establishing A Healthy Perspective

The best way to ensure that your legacy is left in good hands is to start educating your children about money at a young age. Read more »

Leverage Your Split Personality to Improve Your Blog Traffic and Keep In Tune With Your Tribe

Once you decide to use blogging as a tool for personal branding, social media or business promotion, the process can drive you to a severely split personality. On the one hand, our primary audience is made up of people, and people like to read actual prose.  They like to read words and see visions in [...] Read more »

Beware Shiny Objects; To Market Successfully, Rely on Consistency and Discipline Instead

How long has it been since you’ve been able to work for more than three days without hearing about some great new tool, system, or technique that will instantly help you take your marketing efforts and sales results to the next level?  My guess is you can actually count the time in hours rather than [...] Read more »

Are You Willing To Chart Your Own Course?

I watched my brother-in-law win a sailing race in the Poconos this summer.  This is not unusual, as he is a very good sailor. What really hit me for the first time was how his performance was a valuable object lesson on life in general and leadership in particular. This inspired me to shoot the [...] Read more »

Using WordPress.org to Create Your Blog or Business Website

If you have previously had a website, I bet you have said, or at least thought, one or all of these things: “#@&%!!, I just crashed my website!” “My developer can do that, but it’s going to cost an arm & a leg” “Wasted 3 hours!  What happened to my updates??” These are all pretty [...] Read more »

Which Would You Prefer, Wealth or Welfare?

What do you think about when you read or hear the words “wealth” or “wealthy”? Depending on where and when you live, these terms may conjur up different mental images.  In today’s western society, people commonly relate them to either the amount of money a person earns, or the assets one has accumulated.  In some [...] Read more »

Would You Juggle a Chainsaw?

I love using my chainsaw.  Playing Monty Python’s “Lumberjack Song” in my head, it’s fun work to go out back and clean up dead brush and timber.  The work is satisfying and creates immediate, noticeable results.  However, if you don’t know how to use a chainsaw, it’s a recipe for disaster.  You are most likely [...] Read more »

The Benefits of Heresy, or “What I learned from my summer reading”

I want to talk about something of which I was guilty of for quite some time.  I felt it when it was happening, but I didn’t have a name for it until my vacation this summer when I read Seth Godin’s recent book, Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us. My offense – sheepwalking. Read more »

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