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Smart Women Share Their Pearls….
This article is about taking a look at each decade of your life and finding the “pearls of wisdom” that have guided you and helped you become more of who you are today.

Four Minutes in the Morning
Amy and I created a tradition about a decade ago we call “four minutes in the morning.” We try to – fully clothed – spend four minutes together every morning 100% focused on each other.

The Changing Economic Horizon Of Ontario Chatham
The journey of the city of Chatham began as a naval dockyard as it is situated on River Thames. A decade or so back, it was merged with the county of Kent. The Municipality of Chatham-Kent is a single-level administrative unit with no provincial administrative level above or below it. It is situated in the southwest of Ontario, Canada. The municipality shares a long shoreline with lakes Erie and St. Clair on either side. Due to its lake-side location on two sides, the humidity levels are generally high throughout the year. Historically, this city has provided the refuge to the black slaves who used to come here by the so called Underground Railroad Network. During the times of Civil War, they settled in the nearby villages. Although most of its population is English-spoken, a few of its settlements are French-speaking. Its schools and co
Opening New Windows: How Gates Soared to Incredible Heights
Though he never set out to be a millionaire, Gates not only became the world’s first centibillionaire in 1999, but also one of the world’s most respected entrepreneurs for having revolutionized the world of computers and setting new industry standards. “I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid,” recalls Gates. How did he do manage to turn those dreams into reality?
Building Piece by Piece: IKEA Becomes an Industry Leader
“It is our duty to expand,” said Kamprad. “Those who cannot or will not join us are to be pitied…A glorious future!”

Lesson #1: You Have To Get Yourself A Gimmick
If there was one thing that Sanders knew better than how to make a quick and mean fried chicken, it was how to sell himself. In the early days, Sanders understood that if he was going to make his small service station stand out from the rest, he would need something that was different from everyone else, something that nobody else could possibly have. The answer? Himself.

\"You\'re an idiot if you don\'t start an Internet company right now\"
The following comes from my friend James Altucher's latest TheStreet.com Internet Review (subscribers-only) newsletter. He quotes a highly successful non-Internet entrepreneur friend recently saying to him as follows:
Mark Cuban Hates Suits
Mark Cuban and I have something in common, other than our fondness for rants. Rants about suits!
Customer Enthusiasm
One of the great things about blogs is that it makes it easy for anyone (that has a blog) to express things – both good and bad. While mainstream media seems to be endlessly focused on “bad stuff sells newspapers”, people like to express (and consume) a full range of their experiences.
County: Smokers Need Not Apply
If you smoke, don’t even think about applying for a government job in Sarasota County.
Riding the Blue Highways
A summary of a new Jeff Rubin of CIBC report on the excess capacity in the U.S. auto industry: The U.S. is producing too many vehicles, according to a new report from CIBC World Markets, and sales already at a 34-year low will likely drop another 30 to 40 per cent and may never recover to previous levels.
Mobile Home Parks: The Perfect Storm is Building for the Best Deals in Decades
Mobile home park sales have been in a continual decline since 2000. From a peak of almost 400,000 units sold per year then, sales are down to under 100,000 today. And most of those sales are units that do not end up in parks. The good news is that, unlike the single family home industry, bad new home sales have been in every park owner's and bank's budgets for almost a decade. There is no collapse to worry about -- it's already been dead for a decade. And no sellers are trying to use numbers based on good sales that are not really there anymore, nor do you have to guess when the rebound will occur.

Evolve and Thrive
Without change we stagnate
9 Components of Good SEO - How to Help People Find Your Service Business on the Internet
Millions of people search for service businesses every month. When they conduct those searches, they aren't looking in newspapers or ads in the hard-copy Yellow Pages. Over the last fifteen years, the Internet has become the dominant technology for local service business searches.
Utilizing Transition
Assessing the roles of email and social networking sites for effective book marketing.
The Secret to Increasing Business Results
There are many paths to being an entrepreneurial business owner, and many of them may feel 'accidental'. Somehow customers find you for something you didn't think of as valuable, or you fall into having a business through inheritance or just doing what's fun as a college kid that just kept going.

Why Participate in Social Networking?
It’s kind of funny, but it took me quite a while to begin actually marketing on social networking sites. I’ve been on LinkedIn for probably five years, MySpace for maybe a year, and several others (Ning, Ryze, Eons, probably more I’m forgetting). But it was only when I joined Facebook in October 2007, and then shortly thereafter found my way to Plaxo and CollectiveX that I finally started using them to really do some business.
Succeed With Social Media
The key to success with social media–and I’ve built my business on it since 1995–is to interact with others the way you’d like to be interacted with. Call it the Golden Rule of Cyberspace–it’s not so different from the Golden Rule of every major religion.
Does Your Metabolism Slow Down As You Age?
Expanding waistlines are making a serious dent in business bottom lines in terms of time lost due to increased levels of illness and injury. As many executives move into their 40s and beyond, they attribute their bulging waistlines to be an inevitable part of ageing.But is age responsible for our declining energy and expanding waistlines or is it just a convenient excuse that hides a decline in our lifestyle habits? Find out what the research says...

Get Up Again When You Get Knocked Down
Why do we fall down? To learn how to get back up again. I remember hearing this in a movie not so long ago. We all have our set-backs and some of us take pretty hard hits. Encouragement along the road is part of the game.
How to Create a 20/20 Business Vision and Why it Matters
The turning point for a vision is when everyone sees it, gets it, and buys into participating to make it happen…built your vision…make that dream a reality.

iMac to be retired this year? I don’t think so
Ian Lamont, writing for The Industry Standard says he thinks that Apple will announce no later than Sept. 30, 2009, that the iMac is being discontinued. I think he’s waaay off base, but you have to admire his penchant for details.
Your First Client Is Yourself
Finding new customers is like kissing thousands of frogs. Doing all that kissing is a royal pain in the behind but no entrepreneur can afford to stop doing it.

Why an Outstanding Resume is Not Enough to Get an Interview: Reason 5
Many people think that a powerful, well written résumé is sufficient to give them the edge needed to secure a job interview. While an outstanding résumé is absolutely necessary, it may not always be sufficient. This is the fifth in a series of short articles which outlines the factors, other than your resume, which could determine whether you will be amongst the chosen few from the multitude.
How To Successfully Buy Your Second Company
An accomplished entrepreneur who has sold his or her first business often seeks to re-enter the business world by acquiring and operating another company. But the acquisition likely involves new partners and different strategies than those previously employed. This article examines just such a scenario, presuming the reader is the purchaser in question. The article covers the necessary planning, leveraging purchasing power with debt, considering outside investors, and the benefits of professional expertise to ease the acquisition process.

The New Paradigm of Marketing – A Shift to Marketing 2.0
There is an incessant buzz about broadening the scope of online marketing to include social technologies. The arrival of social technologies along with the new-age platforms, such as smartphones and tablets, have triggered nothing short of a revolution in the way businesses approach their prospects. This has changed the marketing landscape in a manner similar to what online and email marketing did around a decade back. Hence we call it “Marketing 2.0”.
Checking Your Assumptions - Part I of II
Learn to check your assumptions both in your your personal and professional life
Call centers do more then answer calls Importance of call centers to business
Learn how call centers are more important to a business then most think. Call centers effect sales and repeat business and more.

RELATIONSHIP SELLING – PART II (TYPES OF RELATIONSHIPS)
Do not sell products, services or commodities. Just establish strong relationships with clients and achieve the coveted status of a trusted advisor. Then, your clients will elect to buy services and/or products from you. Never try to sell them. I know that this sounds deceptively simple. Almost as if one could just sit around and wait for things to happen. Establishing and maintaining trusted client relationships without trying to sell them anything, requires a lot of patience and a constant struggle against the temptation to start selling.
Schedule Your Day to Reflect Goals and Priorities - Part 4 - Align Your Time
Scheduling your day can be challenging for many. (This is especially true if others add activities to your calender! I have had others adding to my calender for over a decade now!) Today I'll talk about how you put the pieces together to schedule your day.
Whats The Best Product To Sell Online
I wish I had a dime for every time I've been asked, "Tim, what's the best product to sell online?" I also wish I had a nickel for every blank stare I received when I answered: "That's simple: information." I'd have enough money to finance another startup or two.
When Generations Collide
Managing midlife affairs among generations has never been easy, and there's no quick fix. To be successful at it, you've got to start talking NOW.
Finding Your Own Selling Style: A Key to Sales Success
Many salespeople struggle because they try too hard to copy or "model" successful role-models - without realising that a lot of what their role-models do is intimately tied-in to their personality and their experience. To truly succeed in sales you need to achieve the same outcomes - but develp your own style of doing so.
Trigger Events and Sales 2.0
Web 2.0 enables Sales 2.0 and many sales people can take customer communications into their own hands and to an entirely new level. Sales reps have more control over the tools that they use, and they can be always on, answering to customers questions in the matter of minutes and not hours or days.
Monthly Dinner With My Brother
Last night I had dinner with my brother Daniel, one of the partners at Slice of Lime, a Boulder-based web design and development firm. He and I were at TechStars at the end of the day where I gave a talk on “How To Be A CEO.” Afterwards, we had a nice dinner together at The Cheesecake Factory (his choice – I don’t think I’d been there in a decade – and it was surprisingly good), a great talk, and dynamite brother hang out time.
The Call to Leadership
As a coach working with small business owners for over a decade I've seen the difference it makes when entrepreneurs consciously choose to function as leader and learn to apply the fundamentals of good business practice. Learn them here.
Expansion Models
When you begin to think about expanding your business, several expansion models can be considered. Here is a brief summary of the most often-used expansion models.
The Common Regret of Successful Entrepreneurs
Success comes at a price, but it doesn’t have to be nearly as costly as it used to be. By learning from those who’ve gone before, you can achieve success without remorse, particularly with this one common sacrifice.
What is coaching all about anyway?
I recently had the opportunity to present to a group of business people. The purpose of the presentation was to outline what Inspiration Coaching does. However, when doing presentations like these, a major component is talking about what coaching is and what benefits it’s provides. I also used the opportunity to launch a new program. The new program is called “Inspired Living”. There will be more about this program later
Why You Should Keep Mum to Mom
Carefully consider who to listen to when considering a franchise purchase. For years you’ve listened to your mom’s sage advice: “Turn off the lights,” and “Save your money” Most of the time that advice was pretty good and many times you even followed it. Now don’t tell your mom I said so, but there’s one time when your mother’s advice may not help you and that’s when you are about to invest in a franchise opportunity.
What’s Your Franchising Aptitude? Learn what it takes to be a successful franchisee
The thought of being your own boss can sound pretty wonderful to someone tired of working 50 to 60 hours a week to make money for some impersonal corporation. And there is probably no better way to be self-employed than by buying a franchise and taking advantage of all that franchising has to offer: a tried and proven business model, initial and continuing training, an operations manual, a recognizable brand identity, corporate buying power, a national marketing program and often much more.
Taking Your Business Online : Tips for Launching a Small Business Web Site
The decision to launch a Web site for a business owner has gone from “if” to “when,” in just a decade. However, the expectations of your average site visitor have also changed in that time. Cheap, home-made Web sites are no longer acceptable. The site you create for your business is a stamp on its credibility; therefore the process of designing and launching one must be taken seriously and considered to be an earnest business investment.

Developing A New PR Approach
Marketing has shifted dramatically in the past decade. With the advent of blogs and social media, companies now have different marketing and PR needs. With that in mind, it’s important to rethink your approach to media relations. As opposed to focusing solely on traditional PR campaigns or 100% on online campaigns, consider a menu of strategies.

YOU Are Your Businesses Greatest Asset:
Whether you're in the early stages of creating a business or have been in business for a decade, it's a good idea to revisit the basics and make sure you have a strong personal foundation for your business to thrive upon. It doesn't matter how good your products or services are if you don't stay in good shape, mentally, emotionally and physically eventually, you're out of business. Statistics tell us that most small businesses fail in the first 5 years due to lack of capital. While this is true, in my experience the other reason businesses fail is from owner burnout!

1.11 Working to end child labour: Working Out of Poverty
Child labour is both a cause and a symptom of poverty. In its worst forms, it robs children of their health, their education and even their lives.

Other decade Related Articles

SME's - Trends to watch for new business opportunities over the next decade or two
A review of predicted trends for the next decade - what business opportunities exist among them?
How to Identify, Form and Capitalize on Strategic Alliances
The last decade has been a decade of change in how business' manage their resources, obtain funding and do business. The Internet has contributed significantly to this. Strategic Alliances have become the business strategy of choice for supporting this change.

What a Difference a Decade makes to Marketing
How has marketing changed over the past decade? How did you need to shift your marketing to out-market your competition? What outdated marketing ideas and practices might be killing your business? Follow this review of the changes over the past decade and how you can be in front of the pack.
Success; BELIEVE IT OR NOT!
There are certain success principles that year after year; decade after decade; century after century are consistant and undeniable. They are simply foundational principles of success that simply are not refuted but known and embraced as "law" by the great teachers and leaders of our times. However, for some reason many, many people simply don't get it. They continue to be in search of that golden bullet, the secret formula to success that will solve all of their problems even when the "secrets" are already known and available to them. In this article Coach Dan takes a look at one of the most essential and widely known "secrets" to success.

A New Year’s Resolution: Five Small Business Mistakes to Avoid in 2010
As you set your sights on 2010 and make plans for growing your business in the decade ahead, first make sure you aren’t carrying any old baggage along with you. Here are five common mistakes that were made by many small business owners during the economic downturn. If any look familiar to you, resolve to correct them now so you can begin the New Year, and the new decade, with a fresh start.
The Financial Rollercoaster of Americas Economy
The economic crisis in 2010 will still hit the heart of many because Americas economy has been on a up and down journey for the last decade.
Guide Yourself With Strong Resolutions
Here we are again at the time of the year when we've spent time reviewing the previous year, and in this case ... decade. It's now time to chart out what you'll focus on for the coming year. Have you taken the time to create your New Year's resolutions? Are you one of those people who just don't believe in making resolutions? Or ... Are you the person who won't tell anyone because you're pretty sure you won't follow them anyhow and don't want to embarrass yourself. This year I took special care in setting my resolutions. I used the fact that we transitioning from one decade to another as a reason to spend more time and effort reflecting and planning for the coming year. I have to admit I've typically come up with resolutions like the following .... "I will lose 20 pounds." or "I won't eat fast food."
Mobile Home Parks: The Perfect Storm is Building for the Best Deals in Decades
Mobile home park sales have been in a continual decline since 2000. From a peak of almost 400,000 units sold per year then, sales are down to under 100,000 today. And most of those sales are units that do not end up in parks. The good news is that, unlike the single family home industry, bad new home sales have been in every park owner's and bank's budgets for almost a decade. There is no collapse to worry about -- it's already been dead for a decade. And no sellers are trying to use numbers based on good sales that are not really there anymore, nor do you have to guess when the rebound will occur.

Find a New Career Doing Business on the Internet
The world has been increasingly doing business on the Internet since the 1990’s. TV and print commercials that listed Web site addresses began popping up early last decade-- at a decade’s end, uncountable organizations were doing business on the Internet. Today, in fact, it’s hard to imagine any organization that isn’t doing business on the Internet!
A Guide To Screenings For Every Decade Of Your Life
Everyone should keep a close eye on their health especially women, but a lot of people are not sure what to look for. Here is a guide to screenings for every decade of your life.
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