Bundle Up!

I recently posted on the MarketingU Facebook page about a quick way to calculate your max income if you’re trading hours for dollars. The take-away was that it’s a good idea to identify other ways to add value to your clients beyond an hourly rate so your income level...

Celebrate your 2012 Leap!

Image:Silhouettes Of Couple Jumping by Tanatat from FreeDigitalPhotos.net 2012 was a Leap Year.   Did you leap?  In your life? In your business? Do you make resolutions or choose a guiding word for each year?  I’ve been doing the latter for a few years now and have...

Shop Local.

Black Friday, Cyber-Monday, are you shopped out yet?  In my community and across the country as indicated by my clipping from the images I got when I searched on “Shop Local”, there is a push forspending your money with small, local businesses. This past weekend, I...

This is not about the election

This is about one of the most commonly used marketing media vehicles for large consumer businesses- television.  2012 is the first year that the raw number of US households with televisions declined. Really. Of course, today, just because a household doesn’t have a...

The way we think. Predictable but irrational.

One of the best books that I’ve read in a while is Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely. The premise is that while we don’t behave the way that economists would expect us to if we were simply profit-maximizing robots, we are still predictable in our irrational...