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Making An Argument For Better Marketing

Is your marketing working for or against you? In any case, you are the judge. I recently took a college course on The Art of Debate. It was with a Wake Forest professor named Dr. Jarrod Atchinson. It contains over 24 half-hour lectures and digs deep into the history, purpose, and strategy of debate. In…

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How Can A Junk Drawer Help You Build A Healthy Business?

We all have one. Some of us have multiple. You may even have one in every room of your house. It's the junk drawer. True Story: I was looking for a piece of wood in my garage to prop up my desk for a project. It was not until I took and posted the image…

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The Dollars Are In The Data

What Gets Measured… Gets Done? There is a famous saying, “What gets measured gets managed”, or “What gets measured, gets done”. It's often attributed to Peter Drucker (but his organizations said it was not him initially). Other sources say it was coined by William Thomson, the Scottish physicist also known as Lord Kelvin. That dude…

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Show Us Your Why

I am sure you probably had a conversation with a toddler at one point in your life. It probably was something like this… Get ready, we're going to the store Why? Because we need food. Why? Because we are out of milk. I DON'T LIKE MILK ANYMORE! Why? Because it hurts cows. Why? (You get…

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Looking Back & Forth… What Are You Thankful For?

Every year, around the 3rd to 4th week of November, until the 1st week of January, business starts to slow down (unless you are in retail). We start to reflect on the previous months of the year. It's also a time to look forward to what's next. I can tell you as you get older…

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Well Would You Look At That? Lessons Learned from Lifelong Learning

You have undoubtedly heard the saying, “You can't teach an old dog, new tricks.” It is true that younger minds are more open to new concepts and more pliable. But that does not mean that older minds have to be ridged. As a matter of fact, minds are amazing things. The more you stimulate them,…

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