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Knowing when to delegate responsibilities is important. I use myself as an example in blogging on knowing when to do something yourself and when to delegate.

“Even when opportunity knocks a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door”. Seeing the opportunity is the first step.

It takes more than skill to have a successful business. Capitalizing on trends can be crucial. Following the wrong trend…is usually bad.

One of the fun parts of starting a new product or service is the launch. A surprising number of companies blow their launch by not being prepared.

WCG (WorldCyberGames) is a large gaming organization with a website loaded with information. Managing a large website is not easy and the WCG site has a trait many large websites have: the site is over-complicated to the point the information is not displayed efficiently.

List entries are very popular. “Top 10 Ways to…” or “5 Reasons Why You Should…” type titles are recommended for submitting to different sites like Digg or Reddit because the title grabs the reader’s attention. That’s great, you have the reader’s attention and the person clicks on the link. Then what?

People start new businesses everyday. Online ventures are easy and cheap to start. Cheap many times translates to “I don’t have to put a lot of thought into this”. Let’s be real, ok? When the internet was more expensive to access people thought out their plans more before hopping online. The by the minute access [...]

I wrote a rhyme the other day about personal brands. As I said in the article personal branding was in debate at the time: does personal brands exist? Some said no, it was solely for companies. Others said yes because of blogging. I have a simple stance about brands. A brand means someone recognizes a [...]

My brother and I were close. We used to talk quite often about everything under the sun. He was a very meticulous person, very neat, organized and orderly. It used to puzzle me, with his level of efficiency, that he never had his own business. I used to bug him about it, even offered to [...]