Today, we continue our month-long focus on email marketing, including how to write emails that are irresistible and use email to build rapport, trust and connection with those you are meant to ... Read more
Danger! Don’t Send Your Love Via Email!
March is Email Marketing Month! During the entire month of March, I'll be giving you tips, ideas and off-the-wall insights about how to get your bulk emails opened, read and responded to. Because, ... Read more
The Gordon Ramsay Guide to Success for Entrepreneurs… Restaurateurs
A couple of week ago, I was on a Gordon Ramsay kick. Perhaps you've heard of him. That f-bomb dropping, Michelin-star-winning Scottish chef and TV personality who is the star of several reality TV ... Read more
Love, Passion and Business: A Valentine’s Day Tough Love Tip
It's Valentine's Day. The perfect day to talk about Love and Business. Particularly, Love and YOUR business. If you're an entrepreneur, chances are good that you are in love. Cupid's arrow pierced ... Read more
Put Away That Ruler! Tough Love Tuesday Tip
What yardstick are you using to measure yourself and your achievements? Are you measuring your progress by other's achievements? Are you comparing yourself to others in your field who seem to be ... Read more
Customer Service a la Mode: Where’s Your Ice Cream?
What I’m about to share with you is a true story, though the names and locations have been changed to protect the innocent… and because I've forgotten them. Once upon a time, there was a young, ... Read more
Financial Fitness: Do You Know Your Numbers? Tough Love Tuesday Tip
Numbers and I don't get along. We just don't jive. We coexist but on a completely different wave length. I have a kind of number dyslexia where sometimes numbers get transposed either in my head or ... Read more
Get Out of the Office and Network: A Tough Love Tuesday Tip
The tip for the day is... get the heck out of your office and go meet people face to face! I just got back from the Chamber of Commerce breakfast, which meets at 7:30 am, and it reminded me of how ... Read more
I’m Bringing Resolutions Back! New Year’s Resolutions, That Is.
When did New Year’s Resolutions go out of style? Do you remember how fashionable they once were? Every year, people across the Universe would declare their resolution on or around New Year’s Eve… ... Read more
A Christmas Miracle at Grand Central
I’d had a long day in New York City. A day of shopping, visiting friends, riding in crowded subways, and walking blocks in boots that looked great butwere hard on my feet. By the time I got to Grand ... Read more