Category Archives: The Lighter Side of Business

This is the area of our blog reserved for our personal, editorial thoughts on business. We hope you enjoy!

The Death of Customer Service

Maybe one day customer service can be revived. Though I’m not holding my breath, miracles do happen. Continue reading

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Gotta Love the Quick Fix | Business Problems and Easy Solutions

While Eli Whitney was brilliant in figuring out ways to make plantation life easier, the impacting result today is unquenchable desire for the next get rich quick scheme. Continue reading

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What is Wrong with the World Today? | The Four Reasons People Do Anything

We are faced with choices every day, and those decisions are affected by our motivations. Keep it funky, my friends! Continue reading

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E-mail Responses and the Perceptions they Hold; Especially in Istanbul

How and when you respond to a person goes a LONG way in the ability you will have to influence, befriend, or sell to that person. Continue reading

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Business Networking 101 | Why High School Games Never End

The most well-known, or the most popular, often achieve the highest levels of success, because in this world, as we all know, it’s not WHAT you know, but WHO you know. Continue reading

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Conquering the Unconquerable | Hunting Grizzlies in the Marketplace

Other than making a series of odd, pop-culture jokes, where is the point in writing about Winnie the Pooh’s nastier cousin? Simple: everyone is afraid of them, yet everyone wants to catch at least one. Continue reading

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Dangerous Distractions | Small Business Owners and Technology

This is obviously a tragic story of senseless over-obsession is a smart phone, but the temptation is real. The scariest part is that game is known as a “gateway game”. Continue reading

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Being Organized is for the Birds

I am disorganization, your single greatest enemy to profitability. It is my goal to keep your business down, your efforts up, and your profitability in complete disarray. I keep you from putting away your files, from cleaning up your workspace, and from systematizing your production. Continue reading

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Business Networking | A Huge Waste of Time, or Humanity’s Greatest Hero?

Sometimes you just have to stick your face out there and be seen. Or do you? History has been faithful in teaching us that if you stick your face in front of a fan it might get cut off, or if you step out on a road you may get run over. Is growing your business really worth that risk? Continue reading

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