(Originally featured at Media Magnetism) The other day my wife nearly tripped over a box of books on the floor of my home office. It was the most recent shipment of a book I had been a contributing author in, and it launched us into a discussion of how much money I had made as […]
Do You Lose Business When You Are Away?
The question of “who handles your business when you are away?” was discussed in one of my business development groups last Wednesday. It was posed to those who may be sole practitioners to see who had a contingency plan for taking care of their customers needs while they were away. Perhaps you are one of […]
Is Your Lack of Focus Killing Your Business?
If anyone is qualified to talk about focus, it’s the guy who has struggled with ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) for several decades while launching, growing, and selling multiple businesses. And yes, that someone is me. For those who don’t know (which is most of you) I have one of the worst cases of ADD; it […]
Why Doing Business on Trade Gets a Bad Rap
Before I joined a trade exchange, I had some not so great experiences in trading services. I learned that this was because for some reason, many business owners want to treat transactions differently when they trade services instead of perform services for cash. It says that they don’t respect the trade revenue as much as […]
Do You Barter?
Many business owner trade services in lieu of spending cash, also known as bartering. Very often this is not an equitable transaction, poor records are kept, and in the end it can damage relationships. I have bartered the old fashioned way in the past, and I had some bad experiences myself. I usually felt that […]