I thought about starting this blog entry with some witty banter, but since I ain’t that witty, that would only prove a waste of braincycles on my part.

I haven’t posted on my blog for a while now, and I’ve gotten some people asking what’s going on with the site.
Well, plain and simple - I’ve gotten swamped.  What I’ve thought long and hard about and what I’m going to be doing is what a number of you have requested:  “How do I do [...]

Sam was a decent enough guy, born into a middle class family. Very intelligent, he was shy and introverted and tended to avoid much social interaction. A classic “geek” if there ever was a prototype. Growing up through the middle grades and high school, he was typically the butt of many jokes, but one [...]

Every now and then I am pulled aside and asked for advice about starting a business. If they find out that I operate my own business and that I help others start their own, I rarely find a person out there that doesn’t have some interest in starting their own business. The reasons [...]

Okay, first - no I haven’t abandoned this website. One of the great pleasures of owning your own business is the spontaneous trip. In this case, my family and I went to Florida to visit some friends and family - FYI … August in Florida - if you didn’t know it’s not the [...]

If you have read any self-development books, undoubtedly you know the importance of goal-setting. You need to set short-term, intermediate and long-term goals in order to measure and attain success. Without goals you will fail and never achieve what you really want in life.

One of the best analogies I’ve once heard about a business was that your business SHOULD be like a child. When you start out, it is a helpless creature. It can’t live without you. It NEEDS you to grow. You need to nurture and care for your business when it’s young. However, as time goes [...]

Well here you are, after several years of hard work and saving, you’ve finally been able to afford that house you’ve dreamed about for years. You saved $35,000 for the down payment and now, the big day has come. The papers are signed and the real estate agent has put the “SOLD” sign [...]

I have had the good fortune to work with some very smart people. Harvard MBA’s, MIT Phd’s, owners of successful companies, you name it. Not too long ago I met with an individual that I would categorize as a member of that group. He is an entrepreneur that has been on his [...]

I have worked from home since 1994 when AT&T shoved me there because of a mandate to reduce fuel consumption and increase employee productivity (frankly, I think it was to reduce overhead - but regardless it was a great mandate). You might think that I was elated, however I went kicking and screaming [...]