Nowadays, it seems that everywhere you turn, someone is trying to get away with something illegal. As a society, how did we get here? I realize fraud has been around for centuries - and probably since the cave man. Lately,…
In his book, On Writing, Stephen King provides quite a bit of food for thought about the subject of writing, reading and words in general. I was reminded just this morning how influential King has been in my life, and…
Sometimes I feel just the shoemaker and his children who go without shoes because he's too busy taking orders for everyone else's shoes. Sure, I have downtime just like everyone else, but I often find myself NOT doing anything that…
I just came across this Inc. magazine article, "8 Customer Service Mistakes to Avoid," by Jon Gelberg, and while I focus primarily on professional services, I think these mistakes apply to just about any industry or profession. The author writes about…
In the past, I've worked with many of my clients to recruit guest bloggers for their blog. These are experts in various fields who we've felt truly added to the credibility of the client's site and, of course, enhanced their reputation.…
I recently returned from the AICPA's TECH+/Practitioner Symposium with quite a bit of info I will certainly write about in the next several months. First, however, I want to focus on the first day's keynote session presented by Sally Hogshead,…
Here's the thing about R&R: It doesn't stand for Rest & Relaxation. How about "Retention and Recruitment?" I'm blogging "live" from the AICPA's Practitioner Symposium/TECH+/Association for Accounting Marketing Conference in Las Vegas where all of the talk is about the…
I've seen quite a bit lately about more effective uses of LinkedIn. Just recently, I sourced a new author for Intuit's Accountant News Central blog, Mark Ginsberg, who contributed two articles, "How to use LinkedIn to Grow Your Practice," and…
Because it got MY attention, I took the title of my latest blog posting from the headline of an article that ran on March 16 in The Dallas Morning News. Here's an online version of the article (with a different…
I can now add one more skill to my bag of tricks: working with Wikipedia. I have to confess that, like so many other people I know, I access Wikipedia on a pretty regular basis. I know it's not always…