Are You Stopping Your Business?

"When you look in the mirror, you see the biggest troublemaker in your life" - Chinese Proverb

I was walking down the street when I saw a mirror that had this taped to it in a store window.  I don't know why it was there, it just was.  We all know this to be a very true statement and one that we completely ignore.  It is so much easier to say that the car troubles you are having is because the car is poorly made or you need a new car.  And it is easier to blame the traffic for being late to a meeting isn't it?

One of the things that most business owners do wrong is love their business.  The day I realized I was doing this in the home technology business, I knew I had a problem that would only be fixed by closing the doors.  When you love your business, you are building a wall and forcing customers to do the work and climb over it.  I am as guilty as the next owner.  When I finished my first book, I designed the cover, picked the title, ran them both by a couple of "yes" people and published it.  Two years later I met Imal.  She laughed and sent this text one day:

u r in luv w your idea.

NAMM Takes it to 11, And Opens To The Public On Sunday

Unless you are really into music, you probably have no idea what the NAMM show is.   Basically NAMM is like any other industry group.  It offers manufacturers a chance to get together with their dealers to educate them and hopefully sell more products.  NAMM serves the music business.

Visit The Real Rockers At NAMM

There are industry groups like CEDIA for the home electronics business, CES for the consumer electronics business and Infocomm for techies.  The big difference at NAMM is Sunday the public can stop by and join the artists, musicians and engineers to see what the latest and greatest is the music industry has to offer.

A New Years Resolution For You And It Is Free

Welcome to 2011. I don't know if you finish all of your New Year's resolutions yet but I've got one I'd like to add to your list that won't be that hard. In fact if you come back and visit this blog all year all help keep you on track with just a couple hours each month. This resolution has the potential to double your business in the next 12 months. Don't you think that's worth a couple hours a month?

All through 2010, there were two common threads missing from just about every business I talked with. Even those few businesses that we found which were focused on their primary core strength we still found these two threads missing. So I want you to make a resolution for 2011 to fix this for your business. Of the nearly 43,000,000 registered brick-and-mortar businesses in the United States, nearly half don't even have a website. And believe it or not this is not one of those threads. For most of the businesses that don't have a website, they can probably continue to live for years without a regular website if they don't want to.