A little in your face, yes, but that’s the tagline for a networking group I joined late last year. It’s called “biznik” and if you are looking for networking events where people actually want to know who you are, not just whether you are a good client for them, biznik is a great alternative to the networking groups that are speaking to fewer and fewer people these days.
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Kurt Vonnegut died last night. He was a great example of someone doing his own thing and being successful with all of his quirks and eccentricities. Vonnegut found a style he could own because it was genuine and a true reflection of his personality.
If you do your thing like everyone else does it, you’ll simply blend in and people will forget about you. But when you really stick your neck out and be so fully yourself that it scares some people, offends others, it will attract the people who will resonate with the real you and in turn, the authentic personality of your business–not the one you “create” but the one you integrate.
I have to say I have a soft spot for Vonnegut since he studied anthropology at my alma mater, University of Chicago. They rejected his thesis. U of C later gave him an honorary degree. Had Vonnegut contorted his message to please his professors, maybe we would have missed out on the voice he was developing.
So what voice are you developing? What you perpetuate you will become fluent in, [Read More…]
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Dear Cell Phone User
Many business owners are afraid of offending their cell phone-wielding customers by posting a “no cell phone policy” in their place of business. They don’t consider that these customers are actually hurting—not helping—business. [Read More…]
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Are you the reason the post office stays open until midnight on April 15th?
Is your idea of logging your miles, basically, not to log your miles?
Do you dig through piles to find everything you need at tax time?
Do the letters I R S give you the willies?
If so, you are not alone. Most business owners have anxiety about the IRS – not because [Read More…]
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We are three months into the new year. How many ideas have you come up with for projects you want to create? For articles or stories you want to write? For products you want to design? For career directions you could take? For business improvements?
You can generate ideas–great ideas–until the cows come home. But what happens once you have a million ideas? [Read More…]
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