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ProTip: When Life Gives You Clownshoes, Start Making Apologies

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

On the odd occasion that I make a mistake while running a research project (cough cough), I find that the best policy is to admit your mistake, apologize and try to make ammends. Early this morning, I sent out a survey via a campaign management tool to about 900 some-odd senior executives at large multinational [...]

Damned if you Do, Damned if you Don’t

Monday, February 11th, 2008

This post is not of my usual calibre. I have worked 75 hours in the last week and I’m bone-tired. Instead of going off on a crazy rant about how bleak the future looks to me at the moment (which I just wrote and subsequently deleted) - I’m going to post an article from the [...]

The Big Conundrum: Grow or No Grow?

Friday, February 8th, 2008

Big disappointment - this isn’t a posting about marijuana. What I’m talking about is when you, as a consultant, reach that point where the amount of work that you’ve got coming through the doors is outstripping your capacity to deliver it. I’m at that stage right now. Some of you are probably thinking “I wish [...]

ProTip: Grooming Your Contacts Database Before a Research Project

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

Quite often when myself and my colleauges send out a market intelligence survey to a base of potential users or customers, we start from a list of contacts of individuals that we want to take our survey. For consumer products, that doesn’t matter - we can do a random survey and get what we need. [...]

Does Dot Bomb Continue to Burn BC?

Monday, February 4th, 2008

During the peak of Dot Com fever, I was living in Ottawa and Vancouver - both homes (at the time) to some of the most over-hyper software and IT companies in North America. I lived through my friend dropping out of their undergrad Computer Science degrees to take six figure jobs with Nortel or starting [...]

Can Business Networking International Help Your Consulting Business?

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008

Note: I appologize for not posting this on Friday. My schedule got “out of whack”.
In an effort to find better ways to promote my business, I have spent a great deal of time in January visiting Business Networking International (BNI) chapters in the Greater Vancouver Area. I’ve actually visited the three top chapters in terms [...]

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