Life, Leadership, and Money Matters
Business owners conduct assessments to determine how well their products sell and to find new ways to market their business and products. Careful research makes it possible for business owners to make well-informed decisions about their current ventures and how they proceed with future investments. The findings direct the owner…
About Matthew Gavin Frank Matthew Gavin Frank is the author of the nonfiction books, Flight of the Diamond Smugglers, The Mad Feast: An Ecstatic Tour Through America’s Food, Preparing the Ghost: An Essay Concerning the Giant Squid and Its First Photographer, Pot Farm, and Barolo; the poetry books, The Morrow…

There are many reasons why a small business might struggle to achieve all the things its owners want it to. Standing out and getting an edge is one of the toughest things to get right. And if you’re not doing things differently and you’re not finding a way to make…
People are always talking about how important product packaging is and all of the different things that it tells customers about your brand. But even though the design is important, you need to remember that packaging is, first and foremost, a functional item. A lot of businesses spend so much…
We judge others by the way they make their money. How did they make their money? It’s a fair question to ask. Money I don’t respect I once interviewed a woman millionaire, she became a millionaire from stock options in Microsoft. She worked in human resources, she didn’t have a…
About Chad Foster Chad Foster is a motivational keynote speaker, sales/finance leader, and inspirational change agent who works at Red Hat/IBM. Chad Foster was the first blind executive to graduate from Harvard Business School’s Program for Leadership Development. Despite going blind while attending college in his early twenties, Chad started…