Networking, Advertising and Creating New Business

Originally published June 10, 2008 on Viralthinking.com. Interesting to see how some things have changed and others have not as far as my ideas on business and marketing in just over a year and a half. As I prepare myself to head into my third BNI meeting this morning and kick off my second day

A Better Product Through My Mistakes

Originally published on ViralThinking.com June 25th, 2009 One thing that I am not terribly afraid of when approaching my own business is the thought of making mistakes. In fact over the past ten years I have made mistakes in business on a fairly frequent basis, some that have certainly cost me money. Call it lack

The End of ViralThinking.com

For a long time I have been struggling with ViralThinking.com and what to do with it. I know you are more than likely unfamiliar with the site, it is a blog I started way back around the time I owned an apparel start-up. The plan was to share ideas about marketing, branding, design and the

Business Email Practices that Drive Me Crazy

Today is a day for a rant post of sorts. I get a lot of emails enquiries for work, client correspondence, spam, sales pitches so on and so forth. Here are some things that drive me crazy. Using ALL CAPS to show me you really mean it. Email is fairly easy to use but some