And being the coffee thought leader that they are, maybe they have but are waiting to execute? They’d better do it soon because I’m putting my idea out there for the world –including their competitors–to see. If I can buy a re-loadable Starbucks card and even go online to customize it, why can’t I buy [...]

I met with my accountant the other day. He told me how much it would cost to outsource the lion’s share of my bookkeeping and financial reporting to his firm. I almost fell off my chair. Because it was so damned cheap. Not cheap like borscht kind of cheap. But cheap in comparison to what [...]

When clients are calling, the kids are climbing the walls, and the coffee’s gone cold, making a dent in your long term goals can feel like an impossibility. Life becomes a big old mountain of minutiae. All motivational moments aside here, but sometimes you just have to get sick and tired of being sick and [...]

The other day someone emailed me to inquire about helping them build a website for a new business venture. I responded to the inquiry a day late because I didn’t notice it in my inbox right away. The automated subject header (“Internet marketing inquiry”) was missing and in it’s place was the phrase “not human.” [...]

I cannot tell a lie. The free lunch does exist, and if you know what you’re doing, you can get mighty full on “free.” I’ve got a boatload of software on my computer that I didn’t pay a dime for (no, I didn’t steal it - it was free to begin with, smart Alec). And I [...]