I just signed up for PRLog to submit a press release on line for a customer and had to assign YET AGAIN a user name and password. How am I supposed to remember what I said? Some want your email,......
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This is a great picture of Transfagarassan Road in Romania taken by photographer Tom Robinson. It reminds me of the curvy road in San Francisco. If you've ever visited San Francisco and driven...
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Have you tried Survey Monkey yet as a means to gather information? The company came up in discussion at the recent Akron Bloggers meeting and one of the participants said that she had hesitated using...
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Yesterday, I wrote about ensuring our customers truly understand all the services we offer. Today I ask: are your customers the perfect fit for your business? I met with someone this week that I used...
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We've all made mistakes. My son swears he'll be in therapy for life because I mistook a pair of boxers for shorts and made him wear them to school when he was 6. Hey, they looked like shorts....
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How is your mind? Mine used to be super sharp. I had over 45 stores I supervised in New England and in my 30s and early 40s I could remember all of their telephone numbers and addresses. I could...
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One of the greatest ways to expand your business is through word of mouth. Whole companies, like Buzzoodle Marketing and organizations like WOMMA have sprung up to help businesses with the concept of...
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Yesterday morning eleven NE Ohio bloggers gathered at Arabica to meet and share. Chris Brown and I had invited the bloggers and we had a list of topics we hoped to cover but before we got half way...
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This is my son. He is 16. He has a mind of his own. Unfortunately. But he surprised me this spring by bringing home an application for the All Ohio Youth Choir, a select group of singers who perform...
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I had the opportunity to meet with Cliff Reynolds, Director and Don Knechtges, Senior Advisor of Great Lakes Innovation and Development Enterprise today. GLIDE. Working in conjunction with the Lorain...
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"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." eleanor roosevelt Looking to be inspired? Looking for the perfect quote to make your point in your next...
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WARNING: I will be using the "a" word in this post. I am sorry in advance if this offends anyone, it isn't meant to. In my boardroom meeting this past week, one of the participants,...
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We've all heard the rush of media attention surrounding The Secret and how visualizing your goals can make them come true. Well, I believe that it takes more than visualizing - you also have to do...
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Do you remember one of Disney's animated movies The Jungle Book? The little boy, Mogli, has been left in the forests of Africa as a child and is taken care of by a family of wolves. The movie is...
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Have you ever wondered why people tend to misunderstand your actions or your direction? Have you come across an employee or a customer with whom you struggled to connect? Are you from Venus or Mars or...
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It would be difficult to let this day go by without mentioning the phenomenon that is Harry Potter on this the release day of the final edition of the classic epic. Whether you've read it or not,...
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In this age of entitlement, have we lost the art of saying "thank you?" As a child when I'd receive a gift I was not allowed to wear it or play it or play with it until I'd written...
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I wrote, earlier this summer, of a book I was reading The Secrets of Great Rainmakers. In one of the chapters, the author tells a story of a tailor who turned 6 Free Buttons into $60,000 in sales. The...
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I found a neat blog posting today from Open Source Innovation entitled Let's Put Open Source to the Test. The blogger, a self proclaimed creative thinking problem solver, is offering his/her...
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I'll be 50 in just 22 more days. In my mind, it's the other way around: I'll be 22 for another 50 years but the aches and pains and grey hair tell a different story. Am I ready? Am I......
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We've all heard stories of computers that have crashed and people loosing all their data. You momentarily feel sorry and think "gosh, glad that wasn't me." But in the last six months...
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Do you look for your prospects at Trade shows? Do you have a booth or wander the floor with business cards in hand and your 30-second elevator speech at the ready? Exhausting, isn't it? Well, what...
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by Deborah Brown on July 12, 2007
Are you ready for this statistic? 67% of Americans who read blogs say they find them through links from other blogs. The on-line game of "tag, you're it!" is obviously key in web...
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I am writing a new book entitled The Golden Rule In Business: 21 BE Attitudes. The premise of the book is that you can use a positive, helpful, "look out for the other guy" approach to...
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