SPARK: Telling Your Story

Your business is like a blank canvas to your prospective customers. They want to know what you are about, where you came from, and where you are taking them. It is critical that you tell your customers an authentic and compelling story. Having a great product or service isn’t enough anymore. Your competitors have great [...]

Creating SPARK

As I have been studying different audio books as part of my MBA on the Run program I have tried to come up with a workable set of values for rating businesses. The concept is to come up with a set of standards that may point to business success. The ratings need to be universal, [...]

Five Minute Solutions

The most popular posts on this blog continue to be our Five Minute pages. Pick up some Avery business cards and download a MS Word template. Within minutes you’ll have a pocket organizer, diet planner, or even a desktop flowchart. The Walleteer format fits easily in pocket or purse and is very flexible. You can [...]

New Organizational Goals

July starts a new fiscal year for us and it is a time of goal setting and a look into the future. This has been an exciting year so far and I want to say “Thank You”, to all of you who visit here regularly. This blog has woven its way through some different paths [...]

Crowd Intelligence

As I finished up the Audio Book, “The Wisdom of Crowds“, by James Surowiecki, I came away with some interesting observations. This book was an insightful read and some of the information presented went against common sense. Here are some of the highlights. 1. Crowd think can be useful for finding people and places. In [...]