Be Wary of Convenience! (The ATM bomb)

I just saw on a CNN news ticker that some bank ATMS (ticker didn’t specify) are going to begin offering $1.00 and $5.00 withdrawal options.
At first glance, you may think “it is about darn time!”  Sometimes you just don’t need $20.  I can even see the benefit from a safety issue – …

When You Have Done All You Can

The Next Move Is To….Wait.
You’ve done all that you can. You’ve covered the angles. You’ve set the players in motion. You’ve launched your product. You’ve opened your doors for business.
What do you do next? Sit and wait.
Doing nothing and being still are not the same things.  Sometimes we unintentionally get …

Operation Prime Red: Shipping Your Projects

Shipping. A phrase coined by the marketing guru, Seth Godin, and recently exercised by a good friend of mine, Randy Redhead a.k.a. Prime Red.
He recently released his new project “Letters from the Architect” on Bandcamp, and today, officially launched the music video for his single “Billion Dollar Business!”
Shipping …

Fight or Flight: Your Involuntary Response to Work

Fight or flight? That’s the question I pose to you and one that you should ask yourself. Especially in business! For the most part, in my experience, “businessmen” have a cool detachment from their work. We try not to get over emotional and always think things through, or so …

Better Project Managment: Tackling Your Tasks

We have all been there.  Your are assigned a task that you really don’t want to deal with and seems to big to tackle.  So you do what many people do, you procrastinate.
Laura Vanderkam wrote a great article on Bnet.com on 5 Ways to Stop Procrastinating.  Here is …

Another Project Shipped! The Team Makes A Difference

Nothing feels greater than shipping a project that you have spent months developing!  Today was a great day as the crew at evolveALOUD and I flipped the switch and brought a new website live.  You’ve heard the phrase well oiled machine but I have something better,  A Fully Involved Team!
I …

Those Few Extra Minutes

It’s amazing how a few extra minutes can enhance a customer’s experience.
There are 3 levels of service you can give to your customer:

avg service
memorable service
or outstanding service that creates life long customers.

(Anything below avg is never to be considered)
I was chatting with a service agent looking to …

Martial Business: The Brutal Nature of Gentle Influences

I learned in martial arts that a force can be redirected through gentle movements that will take it off its course/target over a distance.  The same way a fist can be moved to miss a target, so can your focus be side-tracked through the gentle influence of your friend’s, family’s, …

Festival of Speed @ Mission Inn

Watch this video on YouTube.

Awesome time at iFLY Orlando