Business cards are by far the most common advertising and contact management tool used by businesses and entrepreneurs throughout the world. Your business card has more impact on your business than most types of advertising. Despite this importance, if you’re like the average entrepreneur, chances are you’ve spent very little time choosing and designing your…
Innovation and Invention via Permission to Fail
The essence of innovation is the process of exploring new ways of doing things, new thoughts, and experimenting. By this very act it can be said that one needs to let go of the known, safe and secure in order to risk failure of a new approach. It is a matter of risking the proven for the…
Is Your Property Deed in the United States Worthless?
In the United States today, people think they own the land their house is built on, but unless they have the “Land Patent” on the land they in fact don’t own it. A “Land Patent” is the only form of perfect title available in the United States. A “Warranty Deed” is simply a “Colour of…
Mcafee Facing Class Action Suit Over Tricking Customers Into Monthly Payments
What happens if the company you hire to protect you against fraud and information theft is the one that helps deceive you? McAfee is one of the two computer security companies that dominate the marketplace. The other computer security company is Norton. The vast majority of business and personal computers have either McAfee or Norton software installed, which…
How to Change Your Life by Holding Yourself Accountable
The greatest reason why people fail at their goals or are not living the life they desire is because they make the wrong commitments and then break those commitments. Every time you break a commitment that you care about keeping, hold yourself accountable to a really painful consequence. The consequence should be something that makes…
He does not want it!
In the movie, Dances With Wolves there is a scene in which is a significant key to the major socio-economic-political difference between most societies. The movie is the story of an American soldier during the frontier times when the West was being settled. A single solder was sent to man a fort, which became of…
Inventors, inventions and Innovation
Throughout history the success of nations has been based on their people’s ability and aptitude for innovation. If it were not for the English long-bow the English would not have been as effective against the French during the Hundred Years’ War, especially in the battles of Crecy (1346), Poitiers (1356), and the famous Battle of Agincourt (1415). In modern…
Life Is Meant To Be Lived
Life is to be lived. No excuses. No reservations. No holding back. An enchanting story about violinist Fritz Kreisler tells how he once came across a beautiful instrument he wanted to acquire. When he finally raised the money for the violin, he returned to buy it and learned that it had already been sold to…
Financial Times Ranks Schulich’s EMBA #1 in Canada and #11 in the World
Today the Dean of my alma mater, the Schulich School of Business at York University sent out the following email update to the school’s alumni. As you can see, though one of the world’s younger universities the business school has achieved international status and continues to re-inforce its reputation: Just one week after Schulich’s outstanding…
The Key Element in Marketing to Business Owners
Great amounts of time and money are spent on creating advertising campaigns to market to business owners. Cost of preparing the message to present to a business owner can easily reach as high as $10 per potential customer. The cost of acquiring a new customer is as high as tens of thousands of dollars for…
