Feb 17th, 2013
How to Write a Business Plan
HOW TO WRITE A BUSINESS PLAN There are so many ways today to get help with writing your business plan. Try out the following to get started. Creating an Effective Business Plan [AmEx Small Business] Basic, solid, and quick primer on buffing the basics – even offers advice via email – and includes a small [...]
Dec 20th, 2012
Finding New Employees Using Culture and Attitude as Your Guide
Team Matters We know the mantra: Team matters. Is this philosophy exaggerated? Overrated? Cliché? No. Team is the only thing that matters. Whatever you’re working on now, the half-life of innovation is so rapid now that your product will soon be out-of-date. Your existence is irrelevant unless you continue rapid innovation. Your ability to [...]
Dec 5th, 2012
How to Stop Counterfeiters in their Tracks.
Many years ago I tried to deposit cash into my bank and the teller informed me that 4 of my twenty were counterfeit. I remembered paying for tickets to the Erie county fair the day before and must have received them as change. In the words of Austin Powers, “Carnies, small hands, smell like cabbage” and also money launderers. Anyhow, [...]
Nov 23rd, 2011
Are the words “THANK YOU” the most important in the english language?
“I would thank you from the bottom of my heart, but for you my heart has no bottom.” “Thank you for reading this article, it mean a lot to me.” “Thank you for visiting SavvyBrain.com, I hope you find it useful and informative.” See what I mean, it just feels good to be thanked. No [...]
Oct 23rd, 2011
Untangling Your Email In-box
Lower the unwanted quantity of email by 75% in a few easy steps. Without a doubt Ray Tomlinson the inventor of email never imagined the amount of time and the frustration that email cause. Between spam and your friends sending you singing cat videos along with offers for every kind of gadget you can think [...]
Oct 16th, 2011
“Strike Socially” to Sell on Facebook and Other Social Media Resources
“Do not underestimate the friends you have, they can be as powerful as any force in nature.” How to Use Social Media as a Selling Tool. In the early days of Facebook we all heard that it was the best selling tool ever, but quickly we learned that there are rules. If you try to [...]
Oct 13th, 2011
Use the Phone to Build Your Customer Base
“You must know that in any moment a decision you make can change the course of your life forever: the very next person stand behind in line or sit next to on an airplane, the very next phone call you make or receive, the very next movie you see or book you read or page [...]
Sep 27th, 2011
Death and Desperation. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.
I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting. Jim Carrey “Something is wrong with gramps, please come to the hospital.” I was desperate, my life was in turmoil and my mind was [...]
Sep 22nd, 2011
Paradigm shift, think before you judge.
“Think of a Paradigm Shift as a change from one way of thinking to another. It’s a revolution, a transformation, a sort of metamorphosis. It just does not happen, but rather it is driven by agents of change.” There was a blind girl who hated herself because she was blind. She hated everyone, except her [...]
Sep 14th, 2011
Believe That Even the Smallest Compliment Can Change Someone’s Life.
The old line; “Watch your words; they become actions” comes to mind as I write this article. A few months back I received a phone call from a person I did not recognize. Lets call him Bob for the sake of this article and his privacy. Bob said, “Kevin you won’t remember me but many [...]
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