Summer is almost here which means if you’re a member of a professional association there is a good chance you will have an opportunity to attend your annual convention or conference in the near future.  Even companies who cancelled their annual meetings last year due to the poor economy are back on track this year [...]

When you’re lying flat on your back, all you can do is look up. That is the position I find myself in right now as I’m recovering from a foot surgery to correct a major deformity that has kept me from wearing almost 90% of the fashionable shoes in my closet. I have [...]

Let’s be honest…this time of the year can be very stressful. Shopping, decorating, addressing greeting cards, hosting and attending parties, mailing gifts, studying for school finals, housing out of town family members and winding down your business for 2009 are all stressful activities. The fact that we’re expected to do them all simultaneously [...]

It was one of those business trips where I was going to have to be on four planes and deliver the opening keynote for a conference all within 24 hours.  In an effort to conserve energy, I hunkered down in the seat of my first flight, turned on my ipod, opened my computer and entered [...]

$948.00 was the annual dollar value of each person in your work email address book according to a recent IBM study published in the Winter Information Systems Conference in February 2009. In other words, this means that every contact in your database has the potential of making you at least $948.00!
IBM and MIT researchers were [...]

Unless you’ve just crawled out from under a rock, you have most likely heard about the new free micro-blogging sensation www.twitter.com .  Twitter is currently one of the fastest growing social network sites,  just behind Facebook and MySpace with over 55 million visitors per month.  
This whole phenomenon is based on the simple question, “what [...]

Think about a recent project, assignment or initiative you worked on over the past month. At some point you probably couldn’t find the information or resource you were looking for in the company knowledge database or on the internet so you picked up the phone, sent an email or got up and physically walked over [...]

With our economy in a recession and unemployment at the highest rate it’s been in over 16 years, there is no hiding from the fallout…we’re all feeling it. However, there is a silver lining in this dark cloud we’re all sitting under. There has never been a better time to invest in growing your network [...]

Holiday season is a great time to expand your network and grow your netWORTH.
I hope this message gives you some new ideas if you’re in a career transition, wanting to grow your business, or hoping to meet some new friends.
If you found this helpful please post a comment. We’d love to hear about your holiday [...]

With our nation’s unemployment rate at 6.5 percent and the number of unemployed people reaching over 10 million this month, chances are you or someone you know has been affected by our current economic situation.
No matter what business or industry you’re in, I know you have to be feeling it. Have you been in a [...]