I have always been a fan of saying please and thank you. From someone holding the door to getting fast food, it does not cost you anything to be nice, say please and thank you and possibly make someones day. As someone who owns several businesses in the consulting world, I often think about the customer/service provider relationship. At the end of the day, happy customers are the key to my business’ growth, and putting out fires is what I do daily. Knowing the day-to-day responsibilities of all my employees,SEE DETAILS

Like most children, my imagination ran wild with plans to take over the world just like the villains in the cartoons and television shows I grew up watching. As I’ve gotten older, the idea of world domination has taken on a different meaning but in a moment of inspiration, I had the thought to look into just what it would take to truly take over the world from a business perspective. Not in a take over the government way, but in a pure business way. By controlling all the resourcesSEE DETAILS

A question I hear often from journalists when they are looking for article insights is: What does it take to be a successful entrepreneur? I usually say the normal stuff: Grit, drive, ambition, intelligence, motivation, discipline, blah, blah… What I really want to say is, you need to be a god damn cockroach to succeed. And here are my 5 thoughts on why that makes sense: You Can’t Kill Me Bro: Have you read about the failure rates of startups? You have a better chance of winning a scratch-off lottery ticket thanSEE DETAILS

Ever watch a Super Bowl commercial, laugh your ass off, walk into the office on Monday, laugh about it again but no one can remember what company the commercial was about? That is the issue with any commercial, from the heart touching to the laugh your ass off funny. If you don’t recall who the company was, it is wasted ad dollars. The TurboTax ads are prime examples of how to do it right. They made them funny, they brought back some old music to suck you in or toSEE DETAILS

Yes, we have a problem and we are not shy about admitting it. We don’t need a 12-step program. Our problem is really one of the catalysts for our own internal happiness (for all the entrepreneurs out there, feel free to connect with me on here!). We have this endless need to create, innovate, develop and disrupt. Everything is in the idea, but then it becomes about the execution. We usually have more ideas than people to execute them. Even if we had the people to execute, then all theSEE DETAILS