Ok, you have 90 seconds to pitch an investor, what do you do? This is a good article with some real world, practical advice. Excerpt: You have 90 seconds to explain, starting now.That’s the premise of the Elevator Pitch Olympics, a yearly event at the Wisconsin Early-Stage Symposium. This year, a panel of eight investors [...]

More and more business owners and executives are turning to Peer Advisory Groups to help them build, manage and grow their businesses. I have been a member of Tec which is now called Vistage, probably one of the oldest and largest Peer Advisory organizations. There are are also the new breed of these organizations like [...]

Momentum can be good thing if your business is really rocking and clicking on all cylinders. Growth is occurring, customers are happy, employees are happy, life is good. On the other hand momentum can be a negative if things are going the wrong way, it is very hard to change old ways of being as [...]

More than 136 million registered Skype™ users will now be able to purchase premium Internet conference calling services through Highspeedconferencing.com. The service will offer unique features such as recording and downloading, moderated question and answer services, and hand raising for people using conference calling on Skype. “Conference calling through Skype has proven to be a [...]

7 ideas to help you start the right company, without risking your financial security. I am over 50 and find these tips to be right on the money. If you are considering starting your own company take a minute and read this brief article. There is even a test at the end to determine your [...]

Free marketing for your business, you can’t beat that. JumpUp.com (owned and operated by Intuit) is one of the latest iterations of Social Networking websites designed exclusively for business. Want to make the front of their website and have your business featured? Then complete the application by November 15th and you may be featured on [...]

I was recently discussing trade show press kits with one of my clients. She was wondering about “extra stuff” to put in the kits — the press release is covered, but should other documents also be included? My response: You can include other documents, but usually the media is so pressed for time they’ll only [...]

Great article by Mark White. Following up on my post earlier this week which tried to weigh up the relative benefits of having a blog as a separate entity or as part of your website, I thought that I would put a short addendum here to just give an overview of the three main ways [...]

Yesterday I read an article about Wendy’s International – the square burger that made Dave Thomas famous. They’ve decided to go back to the basic burger. Over the years Wendy’s has purchased other restaurants, expanded their menu and moved away… Read more

Being over 50 years of age I am very sensitive to some of the subtle and not so subtle age discrimination that happens to us ‘seniors’ even though we are in the prime of our work careers and accumulated knowledge…. Read more