March 30, 2020
Small Business Survival Tips During COVID-19
I won’t be disingenuous by marketing services when most of us are in survival mode so I will make all readers of this newsletter an…
March 19, 2020
Creativity in a Crisis
Once again, the phrase, “We live in interesting times” is being used. There’s nothing but news about the coronavirus and at the same time marketing creativity…
February 20, 2020
Show Urgency or Lose the Game
It’s 2020. Another year, another decade. Doesn’t seem that long-ago people were worried about the world collapsing on 1-1-2000 because of computer clocks, does it?…
February 6, 2020
What is the Bane of Your Business?
Goals are an ongoing task, not just for a calendar year. Many years ago I was a regular at a pretty cool restaurant in Minneapolis,…
January 30, 2020
High Rise – High Risk – High Reward
Gazing out the window of a high-rise I saw workers on scaffolding on a building across the street. My first reaction was, “That looks like…
January 25, 2020
Taking Action – Maybe Tomorrow?
The Wall Street Journal had an article titled, “New Ways to Battle Procrastination.” So, I tore it out to read later. Seriously, I did tear…
January 23, 2020
Priority: Make Customers Feel Special
It’s common knowledge cable and satellite TV companies have been losing customers to cord cutting, i.e., people using only online streaming services for their in-house…
January 17, 2020
Vaping and other Naïve Actions
There was a recent news story about a Seattle area law enforcement officer suing for about $11 million because of a health condition caused by…
December 21, 2019
No Floundering Here; Only Great Insights
On October 23 we had our 12th annual Getting the Deal Done Breakfast Conference at the Bellevue Club. As always, our sponsors and expert panelists (beside…
December 5, 2019
Do Your Customers Know You?
We’ve been working on an ongoing project with Pacific Software Publishing to locate acquisition targets of companies doing website hosting. Many moons ago I came…