Monthly Archives: July 2018

Don’t worry. Your customers and clients will teach you all you have to know, says Horse Country Campground founder Walter Willett.   In a kind of reverse Socratic methodology, all you have to do to create a world-class enterprise is to begin. Over time, your customers and clients will ask you all the right questions […]

Best Buy, according to most prognosticators, should be dead by now… bulldozed by Amazon, but it’s not. How did they turn the trick? They changed their business model. If you are in a products business these days, you will want to add services. If you’re in the service biz, you’ll want to consider adding products. […]

I have to admit to feeling a teeny stab of jealousy as I watched “I own Australia’s best home” season 1 on Netflix. After all, I lived in Oz for seven wonderful years and their weather is certainly better than my current abode (Ottawa, Canada), which is the 2nd coldest capital city (after Mongolia’s Ulan […]

Why are so many millennials failing in a hot economy? I can’t be sure but since I have five kids in that age group, I can speculate that… they stand outside the bag of goodies that the modern economy has to offer they hate email (“So 1990s!”) they dislike voicemail even more (“So 1980s!”) they’re […]

Why do private sales often suck? Well, here’s an email I received from a client of mine (a significant and sophisticated) real estate investor explaining why this may be so: A neighbor of mine is elderly; he lost his wife a few years ago. She was a fine person. Having said this, however, I have […]

Real estate is get rich slow. Folks don’t like that word: Slow. They often look for shortcuts instead. However, there are no shortcuts to success. None. “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going,” Beverly Sills, American operatic soprano  If you have heard about someone who wrote a business model on the back of […]