This week I’m in Vegas at the MGM Grand. Throughout the entire facility, they advertise their upcoming shows. Madonna, Justin Bieber and ANDREA BOCELLI. In case you don’t know who Andrea Bocelli is, let me tell you. He is a worldwide famous Italian singer who has sold 75 million records worldwide. His concerts sell for hundreds [...] Read more »
Is The American Dream Dead?
This week Time Magazine’s cover asked the question “Is The American Dream Dead?” You can guess what is on the inside. Stories of how much harder it is to make it in America today, how the rich are getting richer, the little guy doesn’t stand a chance and how the generations before us had it [...] Read more »
If They’re So Big And Successful, Why Do We Think They’re Dumb?
In my business world of fellow entrepreneurs, people like to make fun of big companies. Actually we call em ‘Big Dumb Companies’. One day I asked the obvious, “If they’re so big and so dumb, why do they have more money, success and clients than us?” Silence. The problem with small businesses is the first [...] Read more »
I See Opportunity Everywhere
Opportunity everywhere… Those were the words spoken by my oldest son, Andrew at 7 AM the day after Christmas. He came down the steps and saw we had just received 4 plus inches of snow during the night. “What do you mean Andrew?” “Well, it snowed last night and I know people will need to [...] Read more »
My First Thank(ful) Thanksgiving
My Thanksgiving in 2008 was one of the most unique and painful of my life. I had come to the realization that my business was beyond repair. Having not pulled a check out for months on end, revenue had dropped to such a level that keeping the lights on and the rent paid in my [...] Read more »
Quit Wearing Someone Else’s Armor Into Battle
Most people are living someone else’s life. The life their parents, spouse, friends, neighbors or society envisioned for them. This leads to a miserable, unfulfilled existense on planet earth. Growing up, most of us have heard the story of David vs. Goliath. Either in Sunday school, temple or watching sports. Heck America is an entire [...] Read more »
The $6,000 Entrepreneur Gamble And A 10 Year Anniversary
In the summer of 2001, my life changed in many extreme ways. It was when I stepped into working on my dream and not just dreaming about the dream. That summer, I invested $6,000 on my AMEX card to enter into Robert Allen’s Millionaire Protege Program. Within days a massive box of material that weighed about 50 [...] Read more »
The Side Business You Didn’t See In Caddyshack
Most businesses leave a ton of money on the table in every transaction. They make the first sale and think they’ve accomplished something big. In reality, they’ve left big money on the table. Back in 1984, I started working in the golf bag room at my local golf club. It was kind of like a [...] Read more »
Uncle Lenny, Mr. Woznaski And The $5 Tip
My first real job was working in the bag room of Lake Barrington Shores Golf Club. It was my first initiation into the world of customer based sales. The real money in that job was getting the members to tip you. In the morning, members would pull up with their car, you’d unload their clubs [...] Read more »