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Board of Directors

I sit and have sat on numerous Boards of Directors (BOD) in my lifetime.  I also know a number of people who do or have done the same. An overriding concern of being on a BOD will always be the liability issue.  Being on a board does contain legal responsibilities the...

Cell Phone Security

I recently went to the Sage Summit.  It was suggested to me that heavy usage of the Summit app could garner prizes, fame and fortune. When I went to download the app, it was demanding access to very and all aspects of my phone. Why would an app for a three day event...

Commercial Property

I don’t believe that the commercial property market has ever recovered from the economic downturn.   I base this on a couple of findings.  Close to home, my complex has a number of open for sales units.  When I moved in all were filled and active.  But as time...

The slow descent of the small business

I was reading a WSJ OpEd piece that hit home for me.  Robert Wilmers of M&T Bank had the stats that I suspected but pulled them together.   According to the Bureau of Labor Statics, since 2009 the pace of small business start-ups has fallen to the lowest...

Promoting yourself or the business

I have run into a number of situations where an individual should be promoting themselves, yet seem to be promoting the company wrapper they currently have about their shoulders.   I know a realtor form a networking group, when I was a member of the group he...

G-mail and business

A hundred years ago,  when I started this business, I met with an entrepreneur who told me in no uncertain terms to lose the Hotmail e-mail address. If I wanted to be treated as a professional I should present myself as a professional.  Like I said, it was a hundred...

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