Last week I prepared a recipe for an Italian dish that calls for fresh-peeled tomatoes. I have a vegetable peeler... nice and sharp with a rubber grip. I've used it for carrots, potatoes, zucchini, squash... However, have you ever tried to [...]
Online Colleges, a site promoting web-based colleges, fished the interwebs and compiled a page of 50 Eye-Opening Lectures for the Marketing Mind - lectures and presentations for marketers with topics ranging from Economics, Business, Marketing, Advertising, Technology, and Psychology and Sociology. [...]
Sand for Your Inbox October 2009 The Magic Of Thinking Big by Dr. David Schwartz, inspired me so much... I have to share parts of it with you. The slides below include lessons found throughout the book. In short, the book [...]
Below is a word-for-word cut-and-paste from today's Seth Godin's blog post: "What do you need me to do?" "What do you need me to do?" This is a question that defines the person asking it. It is very different from, "here's [...]
Are you looking for a web designer? There are a million of them out there... How do you choose? While Max Design didn't design my site,* I can vouch for their passion for design. Russ Weakley of Max Design helped me [...]
Some weeks ago, I shared a decision making method that utilized a Two-By-Two Diagram to rank/filter ideas using two key parameters. While I received positive feedback, I was asked what to use when you need to rank/filter ideas that involve more [...]
H. Allen Durkee and Fred L. Mower purchased the recipe for Marshmallow Fluff for $500* in 1917... and I'm glad they did. Durkee-Mower Inc has making Fluff in Lynn, Massachusetts ever since. What? You don't know what Fluff is? It is [...]
In June, I posted an article called How To Create The Perfect (Brain) Storm. I shared the perspective that a great brainstorm or strategy session... heck ANY great meeting... is a combination of the right people, the right process, at the [...]
Unity promotes cohesiveness. Variety creates interest. A business lesson taken from classical music. Ultimately, all composition comes down to a balance between unity and variety. Too much unity, too much of the same thing, leads to boredom. But, too much variety [...]
Look under your desk at the clutter of power cords... from your CPU, monitor, speakers, perhaps a printer... I'll bet, just like under my desk, it is a mess. A tangle of cords. But that's just how it is, right? Well, [...]
