2020 is getting a lot of appropriate buzz as a year for clearer vision. It remains to be seen if we can leverage it the way we hope. According to U.S. News & World Report, 80% of New Year's resolutions fail by mid-January.

Cue Tom Petty's classic hit song from his fabulous Wildflowers' album, Time To Move On. - ? - Tom's singing about divorce, but if I were singing the song it'd be about my long-last professional shift. Today,

Dig out that SWOT analysis. It'll come in handy. - Part of figuring out your best moves to ratchet up your branding is to figure out what customers really want, what you're really good at and what weaknesses exist in the competition.

What do your sales conversations sound like? What do they look and feel like? - You may think that brand building isn't even a third cousin to sales conversations. Positioning your brand has much to do with the sales conversation. -

Let's get something out of the way. If you're genuinely a jerk, then this won't work well. ;) - Genuine means you're real, not hypocritical. It means you're YOU. Whatever that is. - I can explain using myself (as always,

After today I'll be away the rest of the week because I lost another WHO in my life. - Who you surround yourself with matters! - I've surrounded myself with some important WHOs. Over the weekend I lost one of them,

“We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction.”         - Harry A. Ironside Harry was a preacher in Chicago. Anybody familiar with the Bible has to have an awareness of gratitude and being thankfu...

We wrap up this week's series on Marketing In The Moment with some thoughts about multiplying our marketing. One obvious way to do that is with money, but writing checks isn't my point today. If you can write bigger checks and effectively drive busines...

A UK business guy produced a brilliant little video about how 1 in 8 men in the UK have NO FRIENDS. Entrepreneurship is lonely. Extremely so. - The Peer Advantage by Bula Network doesn't promise to provide you lifelong friends,

Marketing In The Moment - A 3-Part Series - This week I plan to briefly discuss marketing. Today we start things off with monitoring your marketing. Wednesday we'll talk about measuring your marketing and on Friday we'll discuss multiplying your marke...