Innovation
Automation: Are We Empowering Human Interaction or Displacing It?
The sales and marketing technology along with the social networking/selling technologies represent a huge amount of the changes that are driving sales and marketing. They relieve us of many of the tasks that used to…
Small Biz Interviews: The Seattle Grind
The colors on the walls of Porchlight Coffee & Records might have changed since its 2009 inception, but the homey, DIY feeling inside hasn’t changed a bit. When owner Zack Bolotin bootstrapped the Capitol Hill…
8 Key Principles to Keep Up with the Speed of Change
Things change so fast these days in business that your first priority as an entrepreneur is to stay current, by talking to customers, peers, and experts. Secondly, you must constantly communicate suggested changes to your…
Outsource Your Crazy
Two realities are colliding in business today, and they’re changing the way executives must think about creating new sources of growth. The first has to do with the ticking time bomb attached to large, conservative…
The Value of Feedback: How Talking to Customers Can Drive Innovation
As an entrepreneur, seeing your product gain traction for the first time is a rush. The early years of ContextMedia were some of the most exciting. During the summer of 2006, as rising juniors in…
How Leaders at Large Companies Can Think Like a (Genius) Entrepreneur
I deeply believe there is a fundamental difference between the way entrepreneurs, and the people who work for large companies, see the world. As I said last time, entrepreneurs, innovators and inventors have “abundant thinking”—they see…
How to Think Like a (Genius) Entrepreneur
“Michael, do you know how I know that you’re going to be a huuuuuuge success? Because you’re too GdD#$n stupid to understand that you shouldn’t be doing what you’re doing!” I first heard this loving…
How Artificial Intelligence Can Grow Small Businesses
Artificial Intelligence in the form of Siri or IBM’s Watson get a ton of press these days, but AI as a resource for SMB management and growth often goes overlooked. AI is perhaps one of…
Heavy Business Losses? How to Transform Your Company’s Financial Strategies
Running a business is no easy feat. Staying ahead of the competition, managing employees and turning a profit can be enough to drive anyone insane. However, there are hundreds of thousands of CEOs who make…
Disruption: Are You the Next Dodo Bird?
Marketing is always ripe with buzzwords that may or may not have any traction. Part of our role as marketing professionals and business leaders is to recognize when it’s hype and when it’s important. One…
