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Neil Patel and Internet marketing consultant very effectively visually illustrates The Difference Between Marketing, PR, Advertising, and Personal Branding . For the past few years whenever I talk about branding with other contractors I try to emphasize something a quote I picked up on regarding Branding in a Remodeling Magazine article two years ago (Brand [...]

Relative Income, It’s a great concept so what is so many of us don’t seem t get it. As I was working today I was re-reading the The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich, by Timothy Ferris by listening to the audio book edition as I was working today I [...]

This past week Joe Stoddard the outstanding moderator of the Journal of Light Construction Computer Solutions Forum in response to a forum members question regarding Adding Memory wrote this great explanation of how a computer works: Here’s how I explain CPU / RAM / Hard Drive (HDD). Think of the computer in terms of your [...]

I was going through a stack of old handwritten notes yesterday tossing what I no longer needed (which amounted to about 99% if what I had in the shoe-box) and found this scribbled on a old 3×5 card and thought it was project management relevant and worth saving. “Although I can accept talking scarecrows, lions [...]

Last night I bought and downloaded Jeff “SKI” Kinsey’s e-book Purple Curve Effect: Throughput on Command (hey it’s just $2.00, what a deal!) and picked up on this little lesson in Lean Thinking that had a touch of Six Sigma to it too. This little lesson came up as I was printing it out. I [...]

There’s an interesting article in Reuben Swartz’s Dollars and Sense: The Pricing Blog entitled: Why Starbucks Coffee Is Cheap that presents a rational and explains that "if caffeine is what you want, and you want it in volume, Starbucks is your low-cost provider". While that may be true as far as ‘pricing’ is concerned in [...]

I have a domain name that I once set up ostensibly as a ‘Home & Garden E-zine’ and the idea languished and died from neglect. Thinking I could turn that domain name into a kid of regional online newsletter for architects designers and contractors closer to home I was doing some research online about possible [...]

I’m often asked for recommendations regarding books on estimating techniques, not the data mind you, but the techniques and methods of estimating. Unfortunately there aren’t a whole lot of books out there to choose from but still there are some good ones that are well worth the time. On the top of the list I [...]

We’re coming up on the time of year where we give thanks for what we have and we are asked by so many sources to give where help in this world is needed and I thought I make mention of an organization that I am working with called JumpStart International . Let me start by [...]

Way back 90′s I used to have personal web site on AOL and writing at that time what we’re really essentially blog posts years before I had ever even heard of blogs I wrote this: In the introduction to his book Leadership Is an Art, Max DePree says: "In some sense, every reader "finishes" every [...]