A few weeks ago I caught a video by one of my favorite authors and motivational speakers, Simon Sinek. He was leading a group Zoom …
Marketing in the Era of Social Distancing
The continuing spread of COVID-19 is taking a big toll on small businesses. Here in New Jersey, all non-essential businesses have …
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Crickets—Not the Insect Kind
Photo by Maria Tyutina from Pexels Stop me if this sounds familiar: You’re in marketing or sales, and you head to an event …
How NOT to Do Business
The following is a transcript resulting from a connection request I recently received to do business. Names have been changed to …
Are You Comfortable? That’s Not Good
I'm regularly asked to speak before audiences of fellow entrepreneurs and other professionals. Some of them are good friends and …
Fear
I'm a huge baseball fan. Have been since I was just nine years old. On top of that, I'm an ardent Yankees fan, so the image above …
Get Uncomfortable
“The problem is that when you get good, automatically you stop training because you’re caught up in the rapture of success, and …
The Most Valuable Asset of All: Time
When we think of assets, we think of our homes, our cars, and other physical possessions. While all of those are true possessions, …
Turning Chance Encounters Into Business Deals
My professional life is full of running into people by chance, and turning those chance encounters into working relationships. One …
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Without Our Families, We Would Be Nothing
At a young age, I knew my sister and I were Irish and Italian. Because I didn’t quite understand how ethnicity worked, though, I …
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