Small Business Success Tips

The Shadow knows. And so do I.
With another holiday weekend behind us, you may have encountered “friends”, family and relatives, and others with evil intent, conscious or not.
Some will attempt to slime you with GUILT. Simply because you are doing better than they, notwithstanding that you exhibit initiative and they exhibit none, they will attempt [...]

This is one I am writing for myself. You can read it if you want to, but it’s really for me. (I’m toying with starting to write all these for myself. I need a lot of counseling, so it seems like a clever and efficient way to use this time.)
Many moons ago – a phrase [...]

Remember how the M*A*S*H episodes started? Helicopters heard coming in the distance. Somebody yelled ‘Incoming”. And the crazed, frenetic pace ensued.
Incoming! Faxes, contracts, FedEx’s, a weekly carton of mail sometimes the size of a suitcase or two. Endless stream of requests for this or that, from my C.P.A.’s, other financial folks, clients. Back-and-forth fighting with [...]

At a past Gold/VIP-Millionaires Group meeting, Dr. Jim Fairfield talked about running a very aggressive promotion for his practice at a time of year regarded as “slow” by his entire profession. He called it “spitting in the eye of the village witch.”
Wow. Been doin’ that my whole life. You should too. Industry norms are to [...]