The Most Exciting Part of Your Business Plan

You’re not going to change the world by building a sales force, even if you build the equivalent of Napoleon’s Army to sell your products. If the most exciting thing in your business plan is the number of sales reps you hope to hire once you get serious...

15 Years of Progress

Back in America pre-1995, this was the communication landscape: 9,000 commercial radio stations 1,100 television stations 11,000 periodicals 11,000 newspapers. How have things changed?  Despite the best efforts of media executives to extinct themselves, there are...

How to Get More from Google Analytics

I use Google Analytics (often) but on a regular basis I only use it for a few basic things.If you feel overwhelmed by the sheer amount of data that Google Analytics presents you with, it can help for you to simply define what you want to know.  For example, here...

Competitive Advantage

My hero Geoffrey Moore often pushes businesspeople to think about their business in terms of core and context.  The core activity is everything you do that makes you strategically different (that is, better) than your competitors.  Core is where you create...