In business, we often us ROI, or return on investment, to determine if where we are allocating our dollars in the best way possible. To calculate ROI, we simply take the profit that we made, and divide it by our total investment to determine how effective the use...
If you are an employee, one of the things that is most likely going to happen to you at some point in your career is that you will unexpectedly lose your job. In the fast changing job market, there are mergers, acquisitions, reduction in force programs, and internal...
E-mail is a great tool that most of us use on a daily basis. The average person may send dozens, if not hundreds of e-mails a day. One thing that most people don’t do though, is leverage this great tool to market yourself, your product, or your service. Here...
Are you interested in significantly growing your business this year? How about improving your relationships or social life? Perhaps you just want to improve your overall network? One great way to have a significant impact in any or all of these areas is to leverage your time. One way...
Have you ever noticed that when you focus on what you don't want, you seem to attract more of it? I call this "the downward spiral". It's usually set off by someone or something that puts us into a bad place, and then when we focus on getting out...
Over the holiday break, I checked out the movie, "We Are Marshall". It's an inspirational true story of the fatal plane crash in 1970 that killed 75 of the Marshall football team's players and coaches, and how Jack Lengyel, a young coach, comes in and rebuilds the Marshall football...
Effective Goal Setting for 2007 - Are you one of those people that set New Year's resolutions? If so, how often have you found that at the end of the year, you haven't achieved what you set out to accomplish? What would it mean for you if you could...
They use to say, "It's all about who you know". While that may have been true in the past, today's mantra is, "It's not who you know, but who knows you", and "who knows you" is all about building your brand! So, whether you are an entrepreneur and own...
The book “The Secret” has been in the news a lot this year. If you believe in what the book says, you simply have to do the following 3 things to have and attract the success that you want: Read More…
During one of my recent seminars, one of the attendees commented that all of the information that he learned in the seminar was great, but he was wondering how I have time to actually implement all the things we had learned that day. Maybe you can relate to...