When you’re building or improving your website or blog, one of the first considerations you have is what pages should your site have? It would be nice if there was a pat answer that fit everyone, but that’s not the case, and you find that out fairly early in the process. What if you asked [...]

Back in the dark ages (when I was young and there were no personal computers, cable TV, video games or Internet), books were my best friends. I traveled the world, learned how to do things, exposed myself to new ideas and ways of thinking – none of which would have happened any other way in the little town where I grew up. As a kid, I easily averaged reading 300 books a year, and remember my mom “forcing” me to go outside and play during the summer…

It’s New Year’s Day and a good chunk of the world is making resolutions. I don’t do that. Making New Year’s Resolutions is far too linear an activity for me.

Instead, I do a duck inventory. I don’t worry too much about getting or keeping them in a row. (My ducks are too much like me for that.)

I’m pretty sure you’re not setting out to lose clients and prospects, but what if you’re doing it without knowing it? Here are two ways others have lost me as a visitor or prospect in the last month or so and why. I’ll bet they won’t notice that I’m gone, but if too many others [...]