Sometimes a helping of "de-motivating humor" can really cheer up your day. Yesterday, I received a catalog (a real one!) from Despair, Inc. Despair's premise is that motivation only comes from within and all those motivation speakers and posters do diddly-squat to motivate employees and small business owners. So they've come up with their own line …
Create Strong Passwords
As a small business owner, you can't afford to have your identity or business information stolen. Using the internet to help run your business is absolutely necessary, but being lax about the passwords you use on banking, hosting and other business sites is short-sighted and dangerous. So, what makes a good, strong password, one that a hacker is …
How To Create Strong Passwords
As a small business owner, you can't afford to have your identity or business information stolen. Using the internet to help run your business is absolutely necessary, but being lax about the passwords you use on banking, hosting and other business sites is short-sighted and dangerous. So, what makes a good, strong password, one that a hacker is …
If You Could Re-create Your Business From Scratch
On the path to business reinvention, there is one powerful question to ask yourself that never fails to generate great ideas (or freak you out completely): If you could recreate your business all over again, what would you do differently? Imagine for a moment that you were going to create the same (or at least similar) business you already have, …
Not Doing What You Should? Here’s Why
Have you ever known what you needed to do to create the life and business of your dreams, but somehow you just never got around to doing what needed to be done? After many failed diet attempts, I realized that I wasn't going to lose weight unless I took a look at why I wanted to be slimmer. I wrote a "decision tree" of two things: all the reasons …
Pay Close Attention or Your Feet Will Get Wet
Aly and I spent the day at the beach on Sunday. Having been to the NJ Shore many times before, I had a sort of sixth-sense about which waves would come up higher on the beach and soak our feet, and when it was safe to walk on the hard-pack sand near the water's edge. But Aly wasn't used to walking on the Atlantic Coast beach and he couldn't gauge …