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Build Your Business, Not Your Product

I’ve had a copy of The E-Myth Revisited floating around my house for years, picked up at Half Priced Books a while back and forgotten as I read through The 4-Hour Workweek, Crush It, The Dream and, most recently, Rework.  A friend reminded me of the book again last week so I sat down in [...]

WhitePages.com Enters Groupon’s Territory with DealPop.com

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DealPop.com is coming to Seattle on July 14th.  The Seattle Times did a story on the new launch from WhitePages.com on Thursday, announcing the launch date and the intent of the product as “the integration of bricks-and-mortar retail with e-commerce” with a focus on local merchants.
The space is definitely crowded, [...]

“There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction”

The title of this post is a quote by Winston Churchill.

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This blog is close to four years old and, since starting it, my interests have shifted.  In college, I was maniacal about the stock market.  Classmates were making money day trading, one even owned a late model Corvette.  I never got too involved in day [...]

Small Business Owners – 3 Steps To Building An Online Presence

I’ve been giving a lot of thought over the last few months to trying to establish a system to help small businesses build up a presence online.  Now, as the economy tightens up, its more important than ever for small businesses to leverage every means available to attract new customers.  Over the last 8 months, I’ve [...]