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As my businesses is growing… double digit growth every couple of months… I am often asked what am I doing that really sets me apart from other organizations? How are we increasing our business when others are failing? Why am I able to hire new employees when others are required to downsize?

How is it that my business is growing when the economy is “so bad?” I know that my company isn’t the only one that is doing well.

Certainly, in one blog post, I won’t be able to tell all the reasons why our little company is seeing so much success, but there are some things that you can do right now (or start doing right now) that will have meaningful, positive impact on your bottom line.

Here are the top three things that we have focused on that have made all the difference to us. continue reading...

Congress told us that if they didn’t do something to buy up the bad debt that Wall Street has taken on, that the markets will fail. It was a bailout that the politicians tried to frame now as a “rescue package.” No matter what you call it, it includes the spending of money that the government (you know, the government that is great about spending our hard earned money) doesn’t have.   

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The bill passed just over 1 week ago and since then, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has dropped 2,000 points. That is not far from 20%.

Now, the same politicians that promised a failure if they didn’t do anything are saying that the market will take time to adjust.

Duh… it would have taken time to adjust if they didn’t do anything.

Every where you turn you will hear people talking about how bad everything is. People just can’t cope because, after all, the world is in a credit freeze (yet I received 5 pre-approved credit offers this week.) Energy is a problem because the cost of oil is so high (yet, prices there have dropped as well… wonder if we’ll ever really see that reflected at the pump.)

We have people defaulting on their mortgage (most likely because they should never have qualified in the first place.) We have home values dropping (I know, I have two homes). We have retirement plans going away (I know, mine lost 16%… but it is a long term investment, so… so what?). continue reading...