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Pre-planning your year financially is about so much more than just numbers

Have you ever sat down to begin planning your goals and dreams for the new year ahead (which is coming up fast – where did 2013 go?) and have wondered where your best dollars are spent growing your business and how you can track them? In order to set clear goals for the future, it’s pretty vital to have the present taken care of.  With December quickly approaching, taking care

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Show a Little Love with Your Business

With Valentine’s Day right around the corner this is a great time to think about how you  have positioned the emotional tone of your business. I think it’s safe to say that the rat race, do-anything for a deal entrepreneur way of doing business is quickly becoming old school:  giving way to a nicer and more holistic approach to doing business. There are all kinds of books and speakers that

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10 Tips for Holiday Bliss

The Christmas Season is almost upon us and if you’re anything like me you want to spend it entertaining, drinking eggnog, going on the Santa Train and watching those stop motion Christmas movies from your childhood – not scrambling with year-end business tasks and last minute work scramble. Here is my 10 Tips for Holiday Bliss (or getting the biz in shape so you can relax at Christmas list) List:

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What’s Your Black Friday?

I’ve read a few blog posts this morning talking about Black Friday, the social implications of people having to work rather than eating turkey and the implications of rabid consumerism.  Several articles started off by asking “where did Black Friday come from?” Wikipedia, ABC News and several other news programs point to the little known origin for the term Black Friday to Philadelphia in 1961 – it was a reference

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