Blogging From Your Phone Not all blog posts have to be authored from your computer. The WordPress app for Android and iOS provides similar features to the desktop version and allows you to post from virtually anywhere. With the ubiquitous use of smart phones there...
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Day 9: Collaborative Business Beats the Competition
Collaborative Business More and more, businesses are seeing the vision of moving away from a business built on competition and hierarchy to a business that uses collaboration to fuel and capture creativity. Working on the premise that great minds working together have...
Day 8: A List of Awesome Websites
Nothing taxing today, just some links I find either helpful, interesting, or informative. Do with them what you will. Pixlr www.pixlr.com It's like Photoshop, but free...and online. Lifehacker www.lifehacker.com Tips and shortcuts for making life easier. DuoLingo...
Day 7: Businesses Grow on Dreams
A little over 3 months ago, I decided to give CrossFit a try. My friend John had been encouraging me for some time to join his home-based CrossFit group and finally after a few adult beverages at a cocktail party I relented and agreed to show up at 6am Monday...
Day 6: Nine Talks That Will Change You
The most amazing thing about the internet is the access it gives us to people and information. From my office in Washougal, Washington, I can listen to some of the smartest people on the planet share their stories. I can engage with people I’ve never met and access an...
Day 5: My 10 Predictions for 2014
It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future. -Yogi Berra But in spite of Yogi’s admonitions I’ll give it a try. Here is BK’s 10 predictions for 2014 in no particular order. The world will not end Workshed will add more services and talented...
Ignorance is Voluntary Misfortune
How to choose? I collect quotes, so I anticipated selecting a single favorite might be more difficult than it turned out to be. In order to narrow the range of initial possibilities from my spreadsheet, I wanted to select a quote that applied to a broad range of...
Why did I get into this business? Day 3 Hubspot Blog Fitness Challenge
You may find yourself living in a shotgun shack You may find yourself in another part of the world You may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile You may find yourself in a beautiful house with a beautiful wife You may ask yourself, well, how did I get...
Someone I Admire: Day 2 Hubspot Blog Fitness Challenge
A Changed Man There are many ways we are influenced in life and in business. It has been my experience that the most profound changes have been inspired by people I have known only through published work (books, interviews, etc). Individuals who caused me to question...
The #1 Question You Should Ask Customers
How can we help you? There. That’s it. It very simply gets to the heart of the matter. Businesses exist to serve the customer’s needs. Before you try to meet someone's needs, it helps to know what those needs are. Many businesses (and salespeople) mistakenly assume to...