Atlas Shrugged, Very Relevant Today
This is one of those books that every student should be tested on before being allowed to graduate from high school.
Will Your Firm Thrive in this Recession
Around every Wal-Mart is a successful mom and pop hardware store. That small business does something different from the 80% who would otherwise fail when Wal-Mart comes to town.
The legal industry is no different. There are some small firms (I talk to a different one just about every day) that only knows there is a [...]
What Dumb Companies Do in a Recession (Krispy Kreme)
Just back in from a donuts with dad “breakfast” at my kids’ elementary school. Two weeks ago the local Krispy Kreme franchise offered to donate several dozen donuts for the event. Yesterday the folks from school went to pick them up and were told by Krispy Kreme “we can’t be giving away donuts, there’s a [...]
Proposed Smoking Ban in Virginia-Bad For Business
Virginia has under consideration a ban on smoking in restaraunts.
Bad idea.
Look. I don’t smoke and hate the smell. I think its a disgusting, harmful habit. I personally would not choose to eat in a restaraunt that allows any smoking.
But….
If a business owner makes a choice to allow smoking in his restaraunt and then employees make [...]
600,000 More People Now Available to Help You Get it All Done
The biggest “complaint” I heard after our Jump Start Legal Marketing Conference last weekend was “Ben, you’ve given us so much to do….so many ideas….how will I ever get it all done?”
Today’s Washington Post headline blasts the news that 600,000 more people lost jobs in January. The Wall Street Journal has a picture of a [...]
Outbreak of Capitalism Causes Established Business Community to Shudder
Great article in the February 16, 2009 print edition of Forbes magazine. CrowdSpring.com is an online tool where, if you need graphic design of any type, you post your project and designers not only bid on the project but they submit their actual work on your design and compete for your business.
What a novel idea. [...]
