April 2, 2012
Marketing in Action
I get an email newsletter from the Green Bay Packers. It comes at least once a week and is supplemented by regular announcements from the…
April 1, 2012
Acquisition Criteria from Berkshire Hathaway
Someone recently sent me Berkshire Hathaway’s (Warren Buffet’s company) acquisition criteria from their annual report. While buyers of small to mid-sized businesses don’t have the…
March 9, 2012
Getting Away from it All
I recently returned from Antigua on our annual Rotary service project. While there we were incredibly busy on weekdays, almost as busy on weekends and…
March 1, 2012
Rotary Project in Antigua
I just returned from our annual Rotary service project in Antigua and Barbuda. It was our most ambitious, busiest and most successful project to date.…
February 17, 2012
Strategy, Tactics and Action
The February 8, 2012 Wall Street Journal had an article titled, “Little Room for New Workers.” The gist of the article was that there isn’t…
January 12, 2012
Marketing in 2012
Today the Seattle Times announced that Microsoft is revamping their marketing to better respond to rivals. Advertising and marketing have always moved faster than business…
January 8, 2012
More on Lending for Buy-Sell Deals
In a response to my recent memo on acquisition lending, my friend Gregory Kovsky with IBA in Bellevue, WA, wrote me the following. ...the lending…
January 1, 2012
The Content Explosion and Marketing in 2012
"In any two days, human beings create as much information online as it took our species to create in the 30,000 years between the dawn…