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Stop Sugar-Coating Your True Opinion
Too often in business, people want to be nice, avoid conflict or not upset their boss or co-workers by stating their true…

Aligning The Organization Around The Customer With Customer Rooms
Image courtesy of potiondesign Is your entire company – executives and employees alike – aligned with and around the customer? Do they…

4 Ways to Cut Costs Using Technology
No matter how profitable your company is, there’s always that wee bit of fat that can be trimmed away to reveal a…

Try This Daily 30-Minute Personal Development Training
There are so many things that you can do in thirty minutes, one of which is investing in personal development training. Within…

What 9 Successful Entrepreneurs Wish They Had Done Differently
In 2004, many of us had the opportunity to become shareholders in Google for the very first time. Most of us passed on…

5 Core KPIs Every Content Marketer Should Know
Content marketing – the method of publishing relevant and valuable content to your target audience in order to drive profitable action (definition…

Brands Acting Like Publishers Is NOT Content Marketing
Content Marketing is often explained with the short sentence “brands should act like publishers”. This is a terrible explanation. Why? Let me…

#1 Job Interview Mistake
Mom’s favorite saying Job Interview Mistake There are 100’s of blog posts out there on job interview mistakes. I am usually not…

Money Is Nice, But It’s Not Enough to Motivate Employees
Many small-business people believe that if you get the right people on the bus, they won’t require external motivation. While these high performers…

The Top 10 List of Business Blogging Tools
Between all those meetings, status updates, reports, and actual work, who’s got time to keep the business blog stocked with great content?…







