Business Essentials

The Lost Art of Communication

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How will this year be different from all other years? Between texting, tweeting and e-mails — not to mention Facebook and LinkedIn — I sometimes wonder whether communication is becoming a lost art form. In a way, business has become far more impersonal. No need for face-to-face interactions, or even complete sentences. And, when conversing [...]

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The Best Logos for your Business–Revealed!

Thank you thank you thank you is all I can say to the many people who weighed in and provided their feedback to my post–my cry for help–What Are The Best Logos For Your Business … way back in September. I peppered a number of you with the logo equivalent of “does this make my [...]

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In All Things, Give Thanks

Ever run around like a crazy person, only to finally have 5 minutes of down time? That’s me right now.  I’m off on vacation at the crack of dawn on Friday—tomorrow will be a Thanksgiving blur at my husband’s sister’s place in upstate NY (a full day of family and food)—so the last day has [...]

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The Lost Majesty of Voting

I don’t know what your experience was like voting in last week’s mid-term elections, but mine was truly dispiriting. Read my exclusive post on MyVenturePad.com to find out what went wrong and why I believe our system needs to be fixed.

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JackRabbit Sports: An example of good customer service

When was the last time you had a good customer service experience? I mean really good customer service — memorable, like a breath of cool, fresh air on a humid day? I had a great customer service experience with JackRabbit Sports recently, and given that I speak frequently on the subject of training your clients [...]

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What Are You Attached To?

About a month ago, I was having coffee with my friend and colleague, Elisa Balabram, founder of WomenandBiz.com, and author of “Ask Others/Trust Yourself.”  What started as a general discussion about business soon took a turn into Buddhist philosophy . . . by way of a wedding dress. Over the summer, I totally purged my [...]

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What Are the Best Logos For Your Business?

I need your help. I’m no marketing expert, but I know what I like. Clean, fresh design that magically captures the essence of what the business is trying to achieve/be/do. But knowing how to choose a logo is beyond my expertise. So here’s my quandary, dear readers: I need a logo for my business.  I [...]

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Persistence, Not Perfection: A “Lifetime” Inspiration

It’s not often that you’re present at the precise moment something special happens — and that’s what makes those events so inspirational: a wedding, the birth of a baby, watching an athlete break a world record. Last week, I had the honor of being present for one of those special moments. My Weight Watchers gal [...]

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What I Learned from “The Expendables”

Sylvester Stallone’s latest opus, The Expendables, was released in movie theaters this past weekend, and I have to confess that I’ve been dying to see it.  Bash-em-up-smash-em-up films are a kind of guilty pleasure for me.  Van Damme, Stallone, Schwartzenegger, Statham, Li, Willis–many of the actors in the film fill my list.  And as long [...]

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The Ayn Rand Book that Winked at Me

How do you pack for a trip down memory lane? For Proust, all it took was the smell of some coffee and pastry. For me, it was today’s tweet from @Brenna_E on @mashable regarding a “Giant Shout-Out to Ayn Rand.” In high school, a friend of mine was forced to digest Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, which she [...]

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