When it comes to developing a marketing strategy, why is it that so many companies are in such a hurry to get momentum, to get traction from their efforts, that they forget the age old principle - accuracy first, momentum second?

In a real mastermind group there are no profesional organizers. There are no gurus acting as experts. Nobody is paying anybody for advice, group management, or facilitation.

Instead of giving up and living with the conflict, even if it is just the nagging continual low grade stress caused by continual friction - stop and consider that you and everyone around you will be living the rest of their lives in the future you are creating today.

Napoleon Hill coined the concept, although I am quite sure it had been around forever, of the "mastermind alliance" in his powerful book "Think And Grow Rich" because he believed from his own experience that a group of like-minded, achievement oriented individuals could dramatically leverage each other's success.

I expect that you are already successful at what you are now doing, I hope you are because it will help you to recognize the truth of what constitutes the formula for creating a successful career, because you already know it intuitively.

How much and what kind of life insurance do you need? What is right for you today? How can you figure that out on your own - so you won't fall prey to sales people who are better prepared at selling what they have than you are at buying what you need?

The number one key for business success in the 21st Century is the same as it was at the beginning of recorded business history, it's just easier to achieve now that information is more abundant than ever and high speed Internet connections make it accessible. But just because it's available and does not mean we all take advantage of it.

When I was listening to Jordan Ayan of SubscriberMail mention the importance of Relevant Content as it applies to email marketing I thought to myself that 99.9% of the so-called email marketers need to hear this.

After hearing first hand the story of Just Bagels as recounted by one of the founders, Clifford Nordguist, I will never again think of my daily breakfast as, "just bagels."

Whenever you work with people, conflict is inevitable. The tension created by daily conflict either results in wasted time, decreased productivity, and poor decisions or the sort of internal competition that pushes each individual to do their best, if for no other reason that convince their coworkers that they can do it.