I shared a challenge question on my other site today that asked people “What business could you start this week with just 50 bucks?”. Many people think that having no restrictions allows them to think up bigger and better ideas, but I disagree. I think that having constraints on a project actually forces you to […]
Getting customer feedback is vital to the continuous improvement of your products, sales, and service. Both comments and complaints can be incredibly helpful if specific enough to understand what you’re doing right and what you’re doing wrong in the eyes of that customer. One of the website I manage serves B2B customers in the retail […]
Some times you might want to some make creative waves, other times you might want to ride the waves. Making waves is a lot harder than spotting a sweet wave and riding it instead. Making waves relies on you starting with ripples and kicking up enough turbulence to create a tsunami. Most people will be […]
Concept and ideas seem to come in cycles; three movies about robots taking over the world hit the theaters within a week of each other, young-adult books about wizards from six different authors hit stores in the same month, four different wood-fire pizza places open in your town within days of each other, and every […]
I was listening to a recent podcast where the host shared a listener’s comment about how he felt that he could no longer be as discerning about the projects he took on because of the current economic situation. He specifically mentioned that he was torn between refusing some projects based on his personal principles and […]
Ever had a salesperson cold-call you on the phone and launch into some long-winded speech about you-don’t-know-what and you-don’t-care-what? You’re trying to be professional and let them get to the point of why they called you in the first place but they just never seem to get to it. It’s like a plane going down […]
There will be times in your professional career and personal relationships where it is time to turn the page. Time to grow and move on to another phase in your personal development. Yes, it might be time to turn the page — but you don’t burn the page or tear it out of the book […]