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You said what?

Submitted by admin on Fri, 2011-09-23 14:00

I took my 89-yr young mother to a Dermatologist a couple of weeks ago to have some suspicious sores on her face checked out– she calls them “brain spills”. Turns out they were relatively common, easily treated, pre-cancerous spots called actinic keratosis, but he would need to take a biopsy to confirm. Whew…what a relief.

Quite a Bit + All the Time = A Whole Bunch

Submitted by Dan Robbins on Wed, 2011-12-28 21:00

Back in my younger business days – my kids think it was shortly after dirt was invented – I was a sales manager at a communications company. As a 20-something kid I had limitless energy, an oversized ego, great wisdom and visions of reaching the “top” in a few months. Einstein and I were peers and Everest was an anthill. Unfortunately, I was too ignorant to realize that I possessed little business savvy and only a teaspoon of common sense. I like to think I was “open to learning” as opposed to being as gullible as a two-year old. And learning came often in those days...

I am looking forward to my next mistake

Submitted by Dan Robbins on Thu, 2012-01-12 01:00

My dad was a do-it-yourselfer of the highest quality. Plumbing, electrical, carpentry, automotive…he could do it all. And most importantly, he did it right. When I was a young lad I asked him, “how do you know how to do all that stuff?”


 My father, a taciturn man, simply replied, “experience.”


 “How did you get experience?”


 “I made a lot of mistakes.”


 Or as Oscar Wilde once said, “experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.”

Anniversary Blues

Submitted by Dan Robbins on Sun, 2012-01-22 09:00

Emotions drive almost all of our buying decisions – some claim over 90% of the time it’s our heart that tells us to reach for our wallet. This is why your messaging has to tug at the “why” your customer should buy instead of the “what.” Don’t believe me?  Then read on yon skeptic:

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