Every day, scores of legitimate emails get blocked by spam filters and corporate firewalls. Your all-important email campaigns and newsletters, and even personal correspondence, may be getting blocked too. Even several higher-authority sites have fallen subject to their own mistakes that have left them in the spam archives. CIO Magazine, in its WebBusiness Insights e-newsletter, […]

I’m a huge fan of brain hacking. I believe that we only have this one life and this limited amount of time, why wouldn’t we be putting our effort into making ourselves the most effective at obtaining the life we want?  It’s surprising sometimes how easy hacking our brain can be, however.  Although we are […]

I suggest everyone take the Strengthsfinder test, a test originally developed by Tom Rath for people to discover their individual personality strengths and develop them. Mine is futuristic; I love thinking about potential future realities, I love embracing new technologies, and am inspired and excited by what the future can hold. As an expert on […]

Just looking at a local Google search engine results page, it is immediately evident that there are going to be a few different things about the way you do SEO. Looking below, you notice that the Google + Local pages are the first results displayed, not the sites, and with those you get hours, location, […]

As a serial entrepreneur and serial investor, I’ve seen a lot of pitches from entrepreneurs for their brilliant new idea. Some good, some terrible, and a few that really really impressed me. Those impressive ones I’ve taken note of over the years all seemed to have something in common. They were straightforward, and they were […]

I’ve written before on impressing investors, and one of the key parts of impressing investors is making that first impression. It needs to be quick, be simple, and boil down to the meat of the problems – What’s your product? What problem does it solve? How are you going to make money off of it? If […]

Have you ever had a time when you looked down at your to-do list and said “Well, everything’s done that I wanted to do, I’m going to go read a book and be happy”. If not, you’re in significant company, that huge portion of people who see a to-do list as a bane to existence […]

We all talk to ourselves, whether it is aloud or not, and often you might find that the thing you say to yourself is the same thing. It might not be directly apparent what that theme is, but we all have one. And when we are able to address it, we can find how to […]

One of the unexpected challenges of becoming an entrepreneur is the loneliness that can sometimes go along with it. I personally work from a home office, which is both a luxury, and limits who you interact with. It is more important than ever, as your own boss, to find and maintain great contacts. Both as […]