Monthly Archives for February, 2011

March is Numbers Month

March is Numbers Month

Numbers tell the story of your business.  They tell of struggle, triumph, of recessions, weather, shortages and realized opportunities. Numbers are a language – a very logical one and one without emotion.  We don’t see an exuberant zero or an unhappy negative.  They just are.  We feel emotion when we see numbers because we think […]

Do what you do with love, using your ...

Do what you do with love, using your strengths and providing great value to people

Doing what you do is the most important decision you can make.  You need to be working within that sweet spot at the intersection of your passion, your strength and what people value enough to pay for. Hugh MacLeod illustrates it perfectly here. Doing what you do starts with passion.  You need to know what […]

I Did It!

I Did It!

All the messages I’ve been getting today are about pushing myself beyond my comfort zone.  I keep thinking I do that, until I realize how comfortable I feel.  The thing is, it’s like many other situations, where the more I do, the more I need to do to get the feeling again. I ran this […]

My social media mix

My social media mix

BLOG I started the Business Owners Success Club blog in 2006 to support the offline group I had.  We met during the first week of the month to work through a workbook I prepared.  By the end of the session, we would have several tasks we had each chosen to help us implement the topic […]

Social Media Mix

Social Media Mix

Mitch Joel wrote a post about how Facebook is no longer just a destination, it’s a platform. Then he wrote about Content being everywhere.  When a story breaks, like AOL buying HuffPost this week, you read about it through the regular news outlets, then you read Arianna’s post on HuffPost, then see what’s showing up […]

Books in January and February

Books in January and February

Ivana Sendaka writes a post every month about the books she has read.  I’m part of her super cool gang and I appreciate reading what books she has read and what she thinks about them.  So I’m imitating her idea – that being the sincerest form of flattery. I started the month and the year […]