Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
Do you need to be in control? It’s a question I sometimes ask business owners. It’s the kind of question that can make a business owner cringe or break out into a cold sweat. It’s a question that challenges the business owner to be honest with themselves. Do you need to be in control of [...]
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Monday, July 18th, 2011
It’s very easy, in running a business, to sacrifice your personal time for the business. It’s also the worst thing you can do for your business. When you sacrifice your personal time for your business, you also sacrifice downtime and perspective and end up getting overworked in the process. A business owner who’s overworked makes [...]
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Tuesday, October 19th, 2010
Last week, I took part in the first class for a series of classes that’s sponsored by the North Clackamas Chamber of Commerce. It’s the Leadership Clackamas County class and I’m taking this class as an opportunity to learn more about my local community and the intersection between business and community. The first class was [...]
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Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
My ex-wife recently moved out and I’m in the process of re-arranging my much emptier home as a result. It’s actually quite a liberating experience and one of the things I’m working on is re-arranging my business space. And as I’m doing this I’m getting an opportunity to evaluate and re-arrange my business as well [...]
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Friday, May 7th, 2010
Justin Kistner of Webtrends posted about the new Facebook Like buttons, which are set up so that if someone clicks a like button on your website, they are sharing their personal data on Facebook with your business. The business can then post a message to all the people who chose to like something. In other [...]
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Friday, November 27th, 2009
The other day on Linkedin I read an an interesting question about business policy vs free speech as it applies to social media. The text of the question is below, as is my response: Today’s business mantra is “Always Be Connecting.” And the tools –linkedin, twitter, plaxo, blogs, online discussion groups, online communities, etc.– are [...]
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Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
I met with Justin Kistner of Webtrends for lunch and we got into some interesting discussions about social media, etiquette, and behavior. He made a really good point that etiquette is based around social norms and conventions, but behavior isn’t always based on those norms and can sometimes make a person stand out. There’s certainly [...]
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
Over time I’ve developed an in-take process for potential clients that also serves as a filtering process. It filters out prospects that don’t fit my business model or otherwise could be problematic to work with. Recently, I advised a client to create his own filtering process, so that he could use it to determine a [...]
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Thursday, September 10th, 2009
Over the last year or so I’ve noticed how the I-phone and various other cell phones which offer applications that allow you to text your twitter, Facebook, and other social media sites have become increasingly popular. Many people use them to keep their social media sites updated. I have a confession to make. I don’t [...]
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Saturday, August 22nd, 2009
This last week has been so busy with networking, I only caught up with my email today, as well as several other projects. The truth is that while I think email is a wonderful method of communication, it can also easily eat up a lot of time, which could otherwise be used more productively. There [...]
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Understanding the Social in Social Media examines the importance of being social and how that can lead to successful social media relationships and business.
