Each week, I open the Brag Basket. This week, we’re opening early for Thanksgiving. What are you thankful for? Obviously, it’s designed as a fun place for you to share your projects and accomplishments. But you can also cheer for other people, give shout outs, congratulate, and even give someone a well-deserved pat on…
You know a lot about me, but friend/mentor/buddy/rockstar Chris Brogan has tagged me for the 5 Things You Probably Don’t Know About Me meme. After putting it off for weeks, here are five new things you probably don’t know about me. 1. My first business venture was washing cars in junior high school. 2. In…
How often do you break out of your search tab? I have a search tab open watching “publishing” and another watching “books.”The books tab is full of book readers – 1000s of them…The “publishing” tab is full of reports of the death of books and publishing and how no one reads books anymore.Maybe more of…
Having a winery is not a glamorous job! That’s what Con Pekrul, owner of Plain View Winery, says. Pekrul started making wines with his father as a hobby. Though it was based at his home with no traffic at all, it kept growing. He started to plan relocating. A building in nearby Lahoma, Oklahoma, (population…
“It can be done. It can be done with limited means. It can be done from a humble background,” Tommy Hudson said. “I am just a guy that had an idea and put a plan together and sought the right advice and enough advice to convince myself really that it could be done.” Hudson started…
Each Friday, I open the Brag Basket. This is the 125th Brag Basket. Woohoo! Obviously, it’s designed as a fun place for you to share your projects and accomplishments. But you can also cheer for other people, give shout outs, congratulate, and even give someone a well-deserved pat on the back. The Brag Basket…
How are small town banks doing now? Yesterday, Sheila Ferrell, VP Cashier of Farmers Exchange Bank, gave me an update on small town banks. She has been with Farmers for 24 years. It’s a terrific little bank in Cherokee, Oklahoma, (population approx. 1600), with a few branches in surrounding towns. Ferrell stressed that Farmers is…
Accounting and finance is one of those topics no one likes to deal with. Except us. We like to talk about it because we (Maesz and I) do it, and we teach it. We’ve written a series of articles on accounting and bookkeeping, and here are some of our better items. Do you get accounting?…
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