Business is about people. Business Blogging is also about people. Some of you reading this are thinking, “No it isn’t. Business is about money (then a few might even add) you idiot!” If you are one of the folks thinking that, I say you are wrong. Here’s why. If you get the people, the moneyRead More
5 Reasons Why I Blog
February 9, 2007 by 30 Comments
In a new twist on an old theme, Robert Hruzek has tagged me and asked me to share 5 reasons why I blog. One of my favorite questions as a kid was, “Why?” And this new meme applies that question in an interesting approach to the simple idea of sharing some things about yourself thatRead More
Community in Business – Tall Grass Prairie Bread Company
January 11, 2007 by 5 Comments
A Different Kind of Story This is not a post about the success of business blogging. Nor is it about a company with a tremendous web presence. Instead, the story of the Tall Grass Prairie Bread Company is one about community. And business. It’s about how you can become much more successful than you envisionRead More
Facing the Fighters
December 23, 2006 by 6 Comments
This past Monday (a day that will hence forth be known here at SuccessCREEations as Black Monday because of our server crash) I posted about Business Fighting Styles. In the discussion that followed a couple of cool things happened. First Grigor Ćorić suggested someone I’d left off my list, the Fight Promoter. Go check outRead More
A SuccessCREEations Christmas Thank You Gift
December 22, 2006 by 36 Comments
We’re a relatively young blog here at SuccessCREEations. While I started blogging a while back, S-C didn’t come into being until the Get Started post on 23 August which, if my reckoning is correct is almost exactly 4 months ago. We’ve come a long way in that third of a year. First the boring stuff.Read More
Have a Thick Skin and Train Your Customers to Love Your Business
November 30, 2006 by 4 Comments
Roger von Oech has a great post up today called Use Your Shield. In it he explains how brilliant new ideas may sometimes be met with tremendous skepticism and even at times harsh criticism simply because they are new and different from the accepted wisdom. Even some concepts that are thoroughly accepted today were ridiculedRead More
Stay In Touch When On The Road
November 15, 2006 by 5 Comments
Do you travel with your work? Or maybe your spouse does. How do you keep your relationship healthy while one of you is out of town? This week Gorgeous is up in Wisconsin. Her folks are not in the best of health and she is staying with her mom while her dad goes hunting laterRead More
Joining a Master Mind Group
November 7, 2006 by 11 Comments
A while back Kirsten over at Think Postive! Blog threw out the idea of starting a Master Mind Group. She’s had several takers on the idea. I’ve talked before about the importance to our success about surrounding ourselves with the right people. In No (Successful) Man is an Island I talked about how important coachesRead More
Stories and Images Get Your Message Across Better
November 6, 2006 by 5 Comments
If you are reading this you are probably into blogging, writing, business, or success. Or at least you want to learn more about it. Well one of the important facets of communication is conveying your message in a way that the other person understands it. It should be inherently obvious that if someone doesn’t understandRead More
