Before you can get around to investing your money, hiring a staff or making a product, you need a business plan. Without a business plan it is difficult to achieve consistent, long-term success. The business plan is an outline of how the product will be created and marketed, how funds will be raised and who […]

I spent a good number of my years learning all of the theory about being an engineer and everything that was involved in the computer, electronics, and power generation side of this world. This was entirely interesting and, more often than not, I would have my nose deep in the books. I was almost always […]

At some point in our careers, we are all going to undergo some sort of evaluation. Every job setting has it’s own way of allowing management to evaluate employee performance. One common way to gauge performance is through a subjective performance evaluation. This kind of evaluation is generally reserved for positions that have an aspect […]

At the beginning of my online entrepreneurial adventure, I was jumping from tactic to tactic to get more business. This was me finding the shiny new little tools that are coming at me from blogs and from marketer emails and from offers on special internet marketing forums. You know what I’m talking about. The $7 […]

As the world of modern technology continues to progress, access to non-traditional forms of education such as online learning is becoming more and more prevalent. The increasing prevalence of online learning is a great thing for many reasons, but determining whether it is right for you is contingent upon gaining a thorough understanding of its […]

There’s one major reason why people out there don’t change, can’t change, and never really plan to change. And the reason is they’re just not aware; they can’t see the issue at hand. So of course they won’t be able to do anything about it. That’s the point when it comes back to any type […]

The unexamined life is not worth living. So said Socrates many centuries ago. The truth of that statement motivates many people to strive through practice and study to improve their lives. They take the time to look closely at their entire lives including their successes and failures and their strengths and weaknesses to identify the […]

When I first stumbled across Jay Abraham, the marketing genius, he mentioned there are three ways to up the growth of your business. That’s to increase traffic, to increase the frequency of purchase and to increase your prices. What we have here and talking about the cost of customer acquisition versus retention, is traffic versus […]

Many people think that social media outlets are the only trendy thing happening in the business world. While they are, there are other things that are trending as well. Management procedures and control styles have developments, too. Experts are constantly coming up with new and more innovative strategies of how to manage their employees. As […]