For those of you interested in business and entrepreneurship I’ve recently launched a contest at Startup Spark. It’s simple: Find a blog post (on someone else’s blog) about entrepreneurship that you really like. Write about it on your blog, adding your own thoughts to the mix. Make sure you link the original post. Link back […]
Archives for February 2007
9 Signs the Online Job Market is Broken
100 years ago companies started putting job ads in newspapers. They still do, although much less. That’s because they’re putting those same job ads online. The Internet took hold offering hundreds of places employers could post their job ads. So what? Compare a job ad from 100 years ago to a job ad today and […]
Blog Posts Should Be About One Thing
The best blog posts contain only one idea. It doesn’t matter whether the posts are short or long, five words or five thousand words, people appreciate the singularity and focus of blog posts that are only about one thing. Just one. Not two. One. This is one of our biggest challenges. Many bloggers are ramblers, […]
Change Is Good – Your Passion Podcast #2
Following up on my first podcast at Instigator Blog, here’s Show #2 of Your Passion Podcast. Today I’m talking about change and the passion I have for embracing change versus simply accepting it. Accepting change is a good first step but it leaves you vulnerable to negative change or passivity. No one wants to miss […]
Put Together The Pieces of Business Success
Business success is like a puzzle. You have a bunch of pieces that have to go together. The trick is the order. If you don’t have a strategy for putting a puzzle together you might still get it finished, but it’s going to take you a lot longer. People often talk about execution being the […]
7 Ways To Avoid Pointless Meetings
Generally, meetings suck. We all accept that as truth but we have them anyway. Endless, endless meetings… I think we’re addicted. Given our love for meetings, we need to make them more effective. Having recently “enjoyed” several truly pointless meetings, I know there’s a better way. The easiest answer is: “don’t have them at all.” […]
The Power Within Brings Bill Clinton and Anthony Robbins to Montreal
A quick announcement about a great conference coming to Montreal on April 3rd… The Power Within is an amazing speaking tour loaded with some incredible speakers including Bill Clinton and Anthony Robbins. I have yet to attend a Power Within conference, but with people like that it should be extremely interesting. Oh, and I almost […]
Problems Don’t Solve Themselves
Keep Your Head in the Sand… And Problems Will Fester. You Need To Deal With Problems Right Away. The right time to deal with a problem is right now. Let it linger and one of two things will happen: It will grow and grow and grow until it explodes into a gargantuan, stinking mess; or, […]
Take Your Blog To The Next Level
I’m very pleased to announce the launch of SOBCon 07 — A Relationship Bloggers’ Conference and Networking Event. It’s on May 11-12th in Chicago, hosted by Liz Strauss, Phil Gerbyshak and Mike Sansone. Many others helped as well. In actual fact, the idea for a blogger conference in Chicago was being bounced around by a […]
What Should You Trust?
Trust your gut. It’s not always easy, but your instincts, those that sit in the pit of your gut, are usually right. Hopefully your gut doesn’t look like that one, but even if it does, trust it. At least when it comes to making business and life decisions. Food choices…that’s another story. Photo from per […]