Financial Services, Speaker and Coach

New Years Resolutions

Let’s make this short and sweet: What is one activity/project/behavior you want to START doing in 2010? What is one activity/project/behavior you want to STOP doing in 2010? What is one activity/project/behavior you want to KEEP doing in 2010? If you list and follow through on these three items, you are ahead of most people. […]

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The Role Of Word-Of-Mouth Advertising: Five Steps To Grow Your Business

Mayo Clinic is the largest integrated, not-for-profit group medical practice in the world. More than 3,300 physicians, scientists and researchers and 46,000 allied health staff work at Mayo Clinic, which has sites in Rochester, Minn., Jacksonville, Fla., and Scottsdale/Phoenix, Ariz. Collectively, the three locations treat more than half a million people each year.  In 2008, […]

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Take Two Minutes To Say Thanks To A Soldier in Iraq

Your opportunity to build a professional services business depends on you and your sweat equity – as well upon upon the efforts of many others. At this time of year remember the American men and women who allow you to enjoy the blessings of  freedom and opportunity to grow your own business. Our soldiers need […]

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Create Your Perfect World

December is upon us; time to complete your business plan for next year! A big part of your business planning process is goal-setting, however goal-setting involves much more that predicting/forecasting/(maybe guessing!) production goals. It has been said that the best way to predict the future is to create it. While many circumstances are beyond your […]

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Go To The Movie This Week: Gratitude

This weekend I saw the new movie from  Alcon Entertainment / Warner Bros. titled, “The Blind Side.” The movie stars Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw, Quinton Aaron, and Kathy Bates, and tells the true story of Michael Oher, a homeless teenager who is taken in by a family and given a second lease on life.  The […]

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You’re Too Good To Be Free!

On I-94 near Jackson, Michigan, there stands a massive yellow billboard with the following line in huge black letters: “Free Land for Industrial Development” This definitely attracted my attention, but my first thought was that these people are desperate. After all, the September 2009 unemployment rate in the state is 15.3%. Michigan continues to hemorrhage […]

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