Jon’s Blog
Wisconsin Main Street Adds Destination Creation Course to Serve State’s Business Owners
Wisconsin Main Street has added the Destination Creation Course to its services for local businesses and communities across its State. Adriana Saia, the agency’s Downtown Development Promotions Manager, recently completed the Facilitator course and is now certified to lead Destination Creation classes. “I think this course would be great for a...
Reinvent Your Mom and Pop Business in 2012
Ever wonder what “reinventing” your business actually looks like? How does one go about this process? Indiana writer Gene Stowe has detailed the process in this article about my early years learning how reinvention works, and why becoming a Destination is the best choice for most small businesses.
Poken makes USA debut at Summit Business Conference in Boulder, Colorado with retail technology & electronic networking tools
A future-is-now business card replacement and electronic shopping tool will debut at the Summit Business Conference October 18-19 in Boulder, Colorado.
Writing Expert Dr. Henriette Klauser to Speak at Summit Business Conference
Once you’ve listed your dreams, the handwriting isn’t just on the wall, says Dr. Henriette Anne Klauser. It’s in the filter at the base of your brain, the reticular activating system (RAS) that helps direct your attention. That’s why Klauser, author of Write It Down, Make It Happen: Knowing What You Want, And Getting It and four other books, advocates list-making to achieve your goals.
There are going to be 10 Winners: Shouldn’t one of them be your Community?
Our company loves contests, especially ones that motivate communities to support local businesses. That’s why we’re awarding $22,000 in our company’s consulting services to those communities who send the most people from their city or town to the Summit Business Conference in Boulder, Colorado, October 18-19 (where I’m one of the 9 speakers).
Are You Creating Breakthrough Success? Ask Terri Norvell
I want to share with you Terri Norvell’s article on creating “Breakthrough Success”. For those who are constantly focusing on the economy as the reason things aren’t better, it’s more complicated than that. I meet business owners every day who are slamming the brakes on their own success. Read more at the Summit Business Conference blog at http://www.summitbusinessconference.com/terri-norvells-breakthrough-success-strategy
Mike Kerr is excited about going to work. How excited are you?
Mike Kerr is the opening keynote speaker at the Summit Business Conference. Mike is going to teach all of us how we as leaders of our businesses and organizations can stamp out daily stress, boost the morale of our teams, infuse creativity into our lives, and create an inspiring business and work environment, one that’s loved by our employees and also our customers.
Using Yammer to create a company network
Yammer is a social networking program that connects all your company’s employees through one central communication channel. It’s free to use, it’s totally private, and it’s only for your company. I first read about Yammer in a business magazine, where a boss was...
Borders: Another “Victim” to “External Forces”
Just once, I’d like to see a CEO of a chain NOT blame their store closings on external forces. Just once, I would like to hear a CEO of a business that’s closing admit any of these:
In Praise of Slackers
The last time I wrote in my blog, I wrote about complaining business owners who don’t make changes to improve their businesses. Looking back, I was wrong about them. I admit it!
I am now ready to embrace the complainers! Here’s why:
Why Some Owners Learn, While Others Complain
Why is it that some owners are interested in continually improving themselves, learning more, growing their businesses, while others wouldn’t attend if you’d pay them? Why are others more resistant to learning new techniques to grow their businesses, but committed to being the most vocal complainers on the block?
Handling Your Great, Good, and Bad Ideas: A 3-Step Process, Final Step #3
Doing it alone feels right, but it’s not. It feels right to plow forward, work longer, and make it on your own. This is your inner entrepreneur on a misguided quest to right your course. Instead, you must step back. Here is the third and final key in this process…
Handling Your Great, Good, and Bad Ideas: A 3-Step Process, Part 2
Last week, I talked about the 3-step process of handling your overload of ideas. Here is the second key in this process that you must remember…
Handling Your Great, Good, and Bad Ideas: A 3-Step Process, Part 1
Here’s something that’s critical if you are going to build a better business: learn to act on your great ideas, nurture your good ones, and discard your bad ones. But this is easier said than done, especially for most owners of businesses. You see, most owners are extremely creative people with ideas constantly popping up in their heads every day…
And then, my banker said to me…
Here’s a story I have to share with you. This was related to me by one of my clients and even though this story is outrageous, this is a true story. I couldn’t make this stuff up!
For All Owners: Your Presence is Needed
For all owners: Here’s an example of how making yourself more visible in your business can have a big impact on your bottom line.
