Hello world! I’ve been looking at several different entrepreneurial business models. And, I’ve been looking at the business practices of a “compressing” industry (real estate). When you really analyze your business and industry you have to ask yourself one question, “What is the most important factor in your business success?” I have personal experiences in [...]

Harvard psychologist Dan Gilbert says our beliefs about what will make us happy are often wrong — a premise he supports with intriguing research, and explains in his accessible and unexpectedly funny book, Stumbling on Happiness. The following is his presentation at the TEDConference. I find it intriguing because I’ve often wondered why more people aren’t [...]

Everything comes with an expiration date. Your college diploma, your knowledge and experience become dated, even your life won’t last forever. Yesterday is gone, and with it all the old rules, processes and techniques. Business is evolving at a staggering rate, and if you are not on the steamroller you will be under it. There [...]

Yesterday brought the end of the annual National Retail Federation convention, known as Retail’s Big Show, held this year in New York City. This year’s 100th anniversary event was an opportunity for more than 18,000 retailers to gather and discuss the big picture — where retail is headed as we go into the next decade. [...]

On a scale of one to 10 — with 10 being excruciatingly boring — I’d rank website terms and conditions of use agreements as maybe a twenty. Dry as dust. The only thing less spellbinding than TCs might be the privacy policies that often accompany such gray type. Why do companies insist on including them on their sites? After [...]