Deborah who is the Managing Director and Chief Strategist at Echo E-Business, published her 2009 predictions for e-business in her white paper ‘E-Business Evolution 2009’... This year Deborah discusses how social media, popular culture, new technologies and the economy will enable us in the forthcoming and following years. The growth of social media and the economic crisis have literally catapulted opportunities and entrepreneurship for online business. To read the original article, go to:... Read more

I’m going to reveal the secret weapon I use on a daily basis to achieve incredible results in business. It’s a piece of software that helps me build me entire little empire brick-by-brick, day-by-day… It’s not DreamWeaver, Outlook, Front Page, 1ShoppingCart, or an auto-responder.   No… It’s nothing fancy like that. When I look out across this industry, I see two kinds of people… Those who have made “execution” a daily habit, and those who have not.   Here's what I mean by that.... Read more

  Your product or service is a most valuable one and your customers have been satisfied with you and your service for years. However, if you don’t have a continuously increasing number of new, quality prospective customers, your business won’t last very long.   If you don’t want to ask yourself the question “Who do I talk to next?”, learn to develop profitable, win/win relationships with practically every new person you meet – whether at business networking events or when socialisin... Read more

Have you ever heard the phrase ‘Your Network is Your Networth’? Good business networking is all about developing and maintaining good relationships with other business professionals. After all, when you get to know people and prove to them that they can trust you, they’ll be happy to do business with you and recommend you to other people. So what does it take to be a highly skilled and effective networker? Be a Good Listener: We were born with 2 ears and one mouth! Maybe it's because list... Read more

Weight loss season is officially here again. I am sure that many of you made New Years’ Resolutions to lose weight (again). While I try to encourage people to make living healthy a year round effort, I understand that there are certain times of the year when it becomes more imperative to drop some extra weight. I decided that this year instead of trying to fight having a "weight loss season" I would instead try to help people as much as possible. For this article I tried to put togethe... Read more