Lesson Learned from Changing the Plan that Will Help You
As a kid growing up in Maryland I was born with a lacrosse stick in my hand. It's a thing like basketball and football are in the midwest. There...
Getting Out of Your Own Way
A king wanted to pick the wisest man among his subjects to be his prime minister. When the search finally narrowed down to three men, he decided to...
Love, Loss and Customer Service
“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” — Dr. Seuss. It’s great advice and so true, but hard as heck to do sometimes. My wife...
A Marketing Plan That Fits on a Note Card
The quest to make things less complicated, short, but useful, is one I’ve been on since embarking on writing a book. Well, correction, for lifetime....
How Do You Compare to Your Peers?
The Inc 5000 for 2022 was recently released. Every year they survey Founders and CEO’s and ask them a host of questions ranging from what they say...
An Honest Look at Inflation
All the news articles you read are reporting that inflation is going through the roof and the world is about to end. Those headlines will earn...
How to Increase Your Email Open Rates
Here's how to increase your email open rates. The bad news first. Today, Saturday, we’re deleting 3,252 people off our email list. From a vanity...
How Font Size Affects An Audience
Results from Changing the Font in My Email Last Week Last week a segment of my email list received their newsletter email with an increased font...
YouTube Stats that Will Blow Your Mind
We’ve been working on the EDGE YouTube channel (if you check it out please subscribe because we need 100 subscribers to get a custom URL which would...
Sales Benchmark Index (SBI) 2022 Sales Macro View Report Don’t Create Confusion, Create Value
SBI just released their 2022 CEO survey. Use the insights to help drive your business as we navigate the recession. Key take aways: * CEOs are...
The Metaverse
Everyone is talking about the metaverse and I was curious about how it all translates into sales and projected marketsize. Here's what's happening:...
What You Need To Know About The Effects of Salary Transparency
Tomasz Obloj of HEC Paris and Todd Zenger from the University of Utah’s business school compiled the salaries of almost 100,000 US-based academics...
The Best Marketing Channels
It's no secret video is quickly becoming the most popular choice for content consumption. Along those lines we've been trying to figure out a video...
How to be Happy
How to Live Happy in 2023 How to be happy in 2023 Sometimes we over complicate how to live happy and make excuses why we can't change our...
Simple Business Plan Template
Simple Business Plan Template By the end of this post you are going to know how to write a simple business plan...