Cartoon credit: FourHalfInc. By James F. Grebey Some businesses provide ethics classes and seminars to teach employees about acceptable behavior in the workplace. Employees who are honest by nature usually take away some food for thought from these sessions while those who are not honest by nature take away only a free lunch….
Author Archives: Linda Barnby
Make Your Business Go Viral – How Viral Video Strategies Can Blow Up Your Business
I’ve been following the “overnight” meteoric rise of a Canadian indie band called Walk Off the Earth who are currently experiencing fame over their viral cover video Somebody That I Used to Know. I am massively entertained by the energy and creativity in their music videos. I am even more fascinated by their marketing savvy.
Effective Networking is Like Panning for Gold
Networking is like panning for gold. Arrive prepared, with the right tools. Sift for the gold nuggets and then take your gold to the bank. And you will be rich in more ways than one!
High Technology Markets Homemade Goodness
An enterprising boomer-age entrepreneur on the cutting edge of technology who serves up country wholesomeness in the form of “from-my-kitchen” goodies has a booth at the farmer’s market we frequent each Saturday morning. This small business owner showed me that homemade jams and jellies are just as easily marketed with smart technology as are computer…
Why Being Authentic Matters
Being “authentic” is not just for “woo-woo” practitioners. Authenticity matters. In this video, I share why being authentic has a tremendous impact not only on your personal happiness, but also your business success.
Nation of Entrepreneurs
What you are doing right now to grow your business has value and importance and meaning well beyond your goal of creating a successful living for yourself and your family. Your daily industry is vital to, not only your success, but the success of your community and our nation.
How to Promote Yourself Auto-Magically 24/7
Today, I want to share with you a FREE tool you may not yet be using which can promote you auto-magically every day of the week! I’m talking about Meetup.com. And it’s FREE. (You know how we both love FREE!) HERE’S WHY: Reason #1: When you are a member of a Meetup.com group, your photo…
What a Coffee Addiction Looks Like (the Ugly Truth)
“You know you’re highly caffeinated when . . . Someone says “How are you?”, you say “Good to the last drop.” You answer the door before people knock. You haven’t blinked since the last lunar eclipse. You walk twenty miles on your treadmill before you realize it’s not plugged in. When you find a penny,…
“Surprised Entrepreneur” Syndrome
“You mean I have to convince people to buy from me?!!” Truth be told . . . I’ve never liked marketing. I never wanted to be even remotely seen as trying to con someone into buying something they didn’t want. For that matter, I didn’t even want to be in business! Oh, I always wanted…
Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889 – How Would You Have Fared?
A blue, cloudless sky on a warm April day. 100,000 men, women and children on horseback, in buckboard wagons, riding bicycles and even on foot lined up at the borders of the Oklahoma Territory for the great Oklahoma Land Rush. At high noon, the boom of a cannon begins the mad dash for fertile soil…
