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Why?

I want to do something a little different today. I want to share with you my why.  If you can figure out your why, I believe you are halfway to success. Simon Sinek tells us to start with why. But I believe that why is not all-encompassing and as simple as finding one why on…

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Keeping The Main Thing… The Main Thing!

How do you define success? Success is not measured like temperature with a static scale or counting system. It is an abstract system that is different for every person and business. With today's Attention Economy, you may think that likes and clicks are the most important metric. But I am here to tell you that…

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What To Do When What Was Working… STOPS WORKING!

Businesses, especially ones that have well-established systems and methodologies, tend to ebb and flow. It's pretty common for a business to slow in the dog days of summer and pick up in the fall, but I hear frustrations from some and jubilation from others. Some clients are seeing traffic to their website drop and associating…

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When Less… is MORE!

I had the opportunity to travel to the South Carolina Coast for my son's wedding. However, I dreaded the idea that renting a house or condo was the only way to stay on Edisto Island. I had visions of Florida or Myrtle Beach, where the coast has huge hotels and condos. But my future daughter-in-law…

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Best Of – Sales & Marketing… It’s a MATH Problem

MATH is HARD! When I was a kid, I did not have to walk to school uphill, both ways, in the snow! But it was before you could buy calculators and computers in the dollar store. Math was always done on paper and memorized (like multiplication tables). Memorized meant repetition and relevance. I am trying…

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Man vs Machine – A Brief History of Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence

Back in 1997, Deep Blue (an IBM computer) defeated Garry Kasparov, the world chess champion at the time, in a six-game match with a final score of 3.5-2.5 in favor of Deep Blue. Almost 20 years later, in 2016, Google's AlphaGo program achieved a similar victory by defeating Lee Sedol, one of the world's top…

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