From the category archives:
With 2010 upon us (I am so ready for a new decade), it’s a good time to set some goals for the coming year(s). Of course, any time is a good time to set new goals, but the near-universal slack time of December’s end seems to spark the desire in many to look ahead.
Goal setting [...]
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Back in 1901, the first Nobel Prize was awarded. Alfred Nobel set the prize into motion using his fortune largely earned from his invention of dynamite.
Amazingly enough dynamite was actually a safety improvement over highly volatile nitroglycerine which was under heavy use at the time. Dynamite could be used for the many earthworks efforts of [...]
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What do you think is the difference between your professional brand and your personal brand? Well, think about who you are at home and when you’re away from the office. How do you spend your free time? And how do you like to interact with your family and friends? That is your personal brand.
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Search Engine Optimization is an important part of designing any website. It’s essential in your marketing and branding strategies as well.
But the $64,000 question is “how to I calculate the return on investment for my SEO efforts?”
Good question.
This SEOTalk episode (episode 4) covers the strategy behind quantifying your SEO efforts. Having these numbers can help [...]
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When I lived in Seattle, a long time ago, there were a handful of Starbucks mixed in with the multitude of coffee shops all over the city.
(If someone remembers the name of the place around U Dub with the “Toast Art” please remind me in the comments below.)
Anyway, I remember Starbucks as being [...]
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Take a look at the entertainment section of any news site on the Internet and you’ll see several celebrities being bashed for their dedication to the party scene. The coverage is positively brutal – and not because of its news value. The truth is that people doing stupid things is a whole lot of fun [...]
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There’s a reason that managers and supervisors get paid more than their employees: managing people is just plain hard.
It’s even harder to manage folks if you’ve climbed past them on the corporate ladder. Everyone can agree to affably hate the guy who comes in from three states away to oversee the team, but when it’s [...]
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Because it can be so difficult to get a job, it is even more difficult to make the decision to leave one. Even a tremendous offer from a new company may pale in the wake of long years of camaraderie, stable employment, and pure comfort.
When it’s time to leave, though, it’s time to leave. [...]
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Let’s face it – money is the reason most of us go to work. It would be great to be one of those terrific entrepreneurs who figures out the way to create income worth millions from under a palm tree, but the fact of life is that most of us are going to have to [...]
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