Happiness-Based Business, Freedom App, and Other News
The end never justifies the means. The means are the end. How you do one thing is how you do everything. These are the simple secrets to a happy business. I see businesspeople claim to endorse awesome service. They talk nice to strategic partners and customers. Then...
A Few Tantalizing Topics This Week
A colleague of mine recently had a great experience with buying a car online… He firsthand experienced how making things seamless, customer-centric and awesome has tipped his buying decision almost solely on that distinction. Thank you Ryan Lazanis for sharing your...
Culture Eats Strategy For Breakfast
What is strategy? “A plan of action resulting from strategy or intended to accomplish a specific goal”. What is culture? “The set of predominating attitudes and behavior that characterize a group or organization”. Can you see right there in those definitions how...
The Fulfillment Curve – How Much is Enough?
I wrote the following Blog a few years ago and updated it slightly...enjoy! How much is enough? It is a question we can all ask ourselves, especially when it comes to consumption. The greatest joy in life comes from creating versus consuming. When we are creating, we...
Save Dozens of Hours in 4 Simple Steps
Recruiting and hiring new Team members – if you are like me – is time consuming, a bit excruciating, and, well, just not fun at all… Tasks that are not fun, waste time, and hard to manage can drain your resources. Hiring people is one of those tasks that most people...
How To Be Productive and Focused in Our Wired World
As I have written in previous blogs, I use an app called Freedom to control my app use on my phone… There are a few things I do to limit my online usage. First… Block Your Favorites What? Block your favorites? Yup. Why block where you will never go!? If you have...
Get Focused, Reclaim Your Time, Add Hours to Your Day
Technology is awesome. I love it… Our business could not function without it because we are a remote, online business. We use a dozen or more cloud apps to manage our clients’ finances and our own Team. Technology, specifically cloud-based software has revolutionized...
Interesting News From Around The Globe
This week I am sharing a different kind of newsletter... Updates, business news, and marketing tips from around the world. Let me know what you think. Would an AI Boss Be Better Than A Human? The concept of AI managers is pretty out there, right? This is about a...
3 Tier Pricing – Add More Value and Get More Clients
Three tier pricing – sounds fancy, what the heck is it for? I love stealing ideas from other industries and applying it to ones no one expects would fit. When we had an office in Victoria, BC we ushered clients into our conference room, and presented them with a...
Do You Have a Strategic Mindset or A Visionary Mindset In Your Business?
In business it is quite easy to fall into a common mindset trap… I call it the Strategic Mindset Trap. What do I mean? The Strategic Mindset Trap Being strategic is not a bad thing. As a kind of mindset or initial focus for your business, it is deadly. Having a...