As we wrap up 2008, we have already started looking ahead so we can have in place products, systems, policies that will keep our businesses going strong the next 12 months.
    There are some among us who look even further into the future in anticipation of what we might expect. Therefore: The third annual “IBM Next Five in Five,” a list of innovations that have the potential to change the way people work, live and play over the next five years. (With my own added comments—because I can never resist!)
•    Energy saving solar technology will be built into asphalt, paint and windows
“Thin-film” solar cell...more

Do you know that target neighborhood activities pay off?  Flyers, phone calls, and "Friend Finding" (canvassing) really work.   Yes, it is getting cold and hard to get out as much - or so it would seem. But then there is Morgan Cox in Anchorage, Alaska. She got her flyers out, knocked on doors and continued her marketing in the snow....a pretty common thing you know in Alaska! Morgan received four appointments from her marketing activities and closed every one of them for a FIRST MONTH IN BUSINESS total of $10,000! As a recent graduate of WCU Professional Window Coverings Sales, we are really proud of Morgan. Any of you can do the same -  "Ju...more

Today is the official end of the holiday season and whatever it is that you celebrate, Happy or Merry Whatever it is. But I hope above all you are like me and celebrating that you like me, are still six feet above ground today. I read a couple of books over the holidays and one of them was Einstein by Walter Issacson. It told of the struggles Einstein went through to prove his theories of relativity and his self worth. For all his genius, Einstein even struggled against the establishment who would not award him the Nobel prize for anything other than Photoelectric-effect. NOT relativity!!!  You know how he was found dead? He was found d...more