Connecting the dots of life and business

As promised, I’ll try to keep posting fun things businesses are doing each Friday. Most of us ignore parking signs threatening to tow our cars. I really liked this Chili’s sign because they do need to keep spaces for carry out customers, but they have a little fun with their firm message.
I’ve seen [...]

I’m very thankful I’m able to enjoy holidays with my family, but truthfully I’m not very big on turkey for Thanksgiving. Luckily, my Mother prepares a ham (ok, Heavenly Ham actually prepares it), but I digress.
This year while others slept, I caught up on some reading and enjoyed a little time on Twitter. [...]

Virtually everyday I hand out my business card to someone. Granted, I’m an admitted networker, see handing out my card as a great opportunity for a connection and I view my card as a strong marketing asset. Today, in the process of two meetings, I collected four new business cards. Three of [...]

Last Summer I wrote why I wouldn’t buy the iPhone when it first came out. My core reasons then were Apple’s lack of experience in mobile devices, but even after their 2nd generation phone I still don’t have one. My current reason (in addition to AT&T’s death grip on the device) is its [...]

Most of the time we encounter organizations trying to be professional and quite frankly that can come off as stuffy and impersonal. While some folks don’t seem to know the difference between individuality and acting, looking or speaking as a responsible employee, I think there is HUGE opportunity in a company showing some personality.
So, [...]

I just found out my favorite restaurant, Melillo’s is closing its doors. While I am sure many things factored into making this tough decision, I realized there are three main things we can all do to support our preferred businesses, products, services, web sites and yes, restaurants.
Personally, I have never operated, worked at [...]