Business Philosophy

IBM | 2010 Chief Executive Officer Study

Here’s an interesting pdf study that IBM did:IBM | 2010 Chief Executive Officer Study(You have to give them a ton of information to download it. But if you are in business I’d say it’s worth it.) The

You improve the economy by lowering taxes

The Safety Net – Living on Nothing but Food Stamps – Series – NYTimes.com Representative John Linder, a Georgia Republican who is the ranking minority member of a House panel on welfare policy added:

BizCamp – Spring 2009

There’s a really cool event coming to Akron April 17th: BizCamp – Spring 2009 Speaker Schedule | Office Space Coworking What is BizCamp? BizCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people

Why I think we’re at the bottom

I follow the economic catastrophe at a variety of places. One blog I love is Calculated Risk. Today, they link to an article by Roubini: Calculated Risk: Roubini: “Reflections on the latest sucker’s r

SageRock is Hiring! Pass this around!!

If you have a moment, I’d appreciate your help. Please take a look and forward this job on to anyone you think would be interested/qualified in the position, or anyone else who could help me find a gr

I Think “Should” is Over Rated

I have lead pretty much the last decade of my career doing what I felt I “should” be doing. I should be going to meetings. I should be selling. I should be networking. Recently I have had a change of

Welcome to the Revolution

Crushing Job Losses May Signal Broader Changes – NYTimes.com “These jobs aren’t coming back,” said John E. Silvia, chief economist at Wachovia in Charlotte. “A lot of production either isn’t going to

Social Media Happy Hour

Check out SageRock Happy Hour. This month it is focused on Social Media. November 20 @ 6:00330.379.9000Free to attendPlease RSVP by November 18thto Jenilee@SageRock.com [youtube]ltSoq5Zselo[/youtube]

Sage The Web Marketer

I happen to know something about this whole $250,000 tax issue debate. That’s almost exactly how much money I made last year in profit. Watch this video if you want an unvarnished assessment of what i

A Really Great Guy I Met This Week

I was down in Columbus Ohio for the Small Business Marketing Unleashed Conference. It’s a great conference that I totally love being at. One of the people I met was John Tuggle. This is his site:Onlin

SES Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Training In Chicago June 4, 2008

If you are going to be in Chicago this week, come check out:Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Training Workshops – Chicago, IL – June 4, 2008 I’m teaching a class called:Tech Pitfalls That Will Derail You

Think Global, Act Local Training Class at SES Chicago

Local search is on-fire hot! By catering to a local audience you can significantly increase your sales and your conversion rate. But creating local search campaigns isn’t as simple as just mirroring y

SageRock is Best SEO/SEM Company

Last night, our company was honored by winning the NEOSA Best SEO/SEM Company award. NEOSA is an industry trade association located in Cleveland Ohio. The competition was against some of the most seri

My First Expert Post at Searchenginewatch.com

I’m extremely proud and excited to let you know that I’m now an expert columnist at Searchenginewatch.com. This site has been the definitive search engine news resource site since the onset of this in

Omniture Notes

Why Omniture This is a good overview video of what it is and what it’s useful: http://www.omniture.com/product_tours/sitecatalyst Presents information in a way that is useful and meaningful to your sp

Click To Play Microsoft adCenter Labs has a lot of really interesting tools. They are working on a lot of cool applications and they let you try them out at this site:Microsoft adCenter Labs

Steps to Video Blogging and Getting a Video Camera

Hi everybody, I haven’t posted much here concerning webmarketingwatch.com. But that site is my daily web marketing video show. Monday through Friday I post a web marketing video to help marketers make

Joomla Installation @ WebMarketingWatch

I wanted to put together some notes for the installation that I’ve done recently of Joomla Joomla_1.0.12-Stable-Full_Package tutorial_template com_sefpatch_1.011.zip – I had this emailed to me because

On Che Guevara

Che Guevara – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia “I will perfect myself and accomplish whatever may be necessary in order to become a true revolutionary.” It was during this period that he acquired his

On Karl Marx

Karl Marx – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Religion is the sign of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. Those w

I Just Had Dinner With the president and CEO of Summa Health System

So I have this thing for CEO’s. You might want to have dinner with Jennifer Aniston. But I’d throw her over in a heart beat for Jack Welch. Sorry Jen. Well, today, I just had dinner with the president

Leslie A. Yerkes SMEI Akron Presentation

Here are notes from a meeting I’m currently at. The meeting is titled: “Beans: Four principles for running a business in good times or bad.” That’s also the name of her book. Her background is: educat

Financial Class Notes

The Nonfinancial Manager’s Guide To Understanding Financial Statements Larry Holmes Huston Texas Separate your profession from your business. The Cash Flow statement was created in 1988. Income statem

Turning Against Shareholders

I’m seeing a consistent trend of companies getting tired of shareholders. In this week’s The Week, “Issue of the week,” they write, “Investors demand short-term results and “sustained growth”. It’s al

CEO Forum at the Practice Court of Quicken Loans Arena

I’m at the “CEO Forum” in the Practice Court of Quicken Loas Arena. I thought’s I’d blog the notes that jump out at me. First Speaker: Len Komoroski, President, Cleveland Cavaliers Here are some live

Joe Abraham Evaluation

Tomorrow is Joe’s evaluation. There are so many things he does right. I just want to make sure I don’t forget any of them. The greatest thing about Joe is that he is the epitome of a team player. If h

Paul E. Werner – Werner Printing and Lithographing Plant

I have been facinated by the life of Paul Werner… a major contributor to the business history of Akron. The reason I’m interested in him is because he was a man of values… values which ultimately caus

Google Analytics For Everyone

Google Analytics has finally opened up to everyone. So now is your chance to give Google Analytics a try if you haven’t already. Here’s an overview video of Google Analytics if you would like to take

Sage Lewis Speaker Sheet – For Business Coaching

While I know about web marketing with the best of ’em… my true passion is organizational development. Here’s a first draft of a speaker sheet for being a business coach. This is all in the very beginn

Sage Lewis Speaker Sheet – For Web Marketing

I’m putting together a speaker sheet. These are my notes on a first draft: Sage has been a guest speaker throughout the United States. His long standing knowledge and unique perspective of the web mar

W. Riley Lockridge ComDoc president and CEO

I went to a breakfast this morning that featured the president of ComDoc. I was compelled to go to this breakfast because Riley is a pretty forward thinking cat. He is highly focused on his culture an

Online Spending Forcasts

Current Online Ad Spend Predictions Search is expected to continue to lead growth, increasing from 41 percent of all online ad spending, or $6.5 billion, in 2006, to comprise 43 percent of online ad s

What Do I Want

I was reading an article. It asked me to answer these questions: What do I want out of life? I want an exciting, busy life where I was able to make the lives of a few people better. My defining role i

Moving SageRock Forward (napkin notes)

My Current Best Use At Work

!vb:vs,33490! I’ve been having some difficulty determining what my best use is at work these days. These are my thoughts on what I’m spending my time on.

Insulating Our Business

We could help insulate our business against recessions, natural disasters, man-made disasters by diversifying our clients along those lines. If we target too much on cyclical business, our business is

Our Long-term Marketing Strategy

It occured to me today that marketing doesn’t need to be complicated. In fact, I think if we simplified our marketing strategy we would probably be more successful. I’m thinking it might look somethin

Don’t Forget This About Business

Business is not a science, it’s an art. There are no laws, there are only models. Don’t give up.

Upcoming Networking Events

I’ve put together a list of local places that would be good possible networking events: del.icio.us/sagerock/Networking Upcoming NEOSA events: 4/12/2006 Email Done Right: Improving conversion rates vs

Gallup Poll: Emotional Bonds At Work

From Harvard Business Review in the March 2006 book, they discuss a 12 question survey Gallup uses to assess the emotional bonds between workers and their companies. These are those questions: I know

Leadership At SageRock

Leadership is where even the biggest companies fall down. This is because leadership has so much to do with ego and survival. Training someone for a leadership position means that you very well might

The Leadership Training Reading List

The leadership training at SageRock has got to be ongoing. Every leader at SageRock should have some base requirements and then continual training… maybe something like 2 books or two classes a year o

The 10 Commandments

This is the very early stages of leadership training at SageRock. In order to instill the SageRock Core Value of Concern, Respect and Empathy for the SageRock Team into the leaders of SageRock, I’m to

What Is Truth

One of the great things about spiritual thoughts is that you so often can make them apply to your situation. And, generally, that’s OK because that’s what the thoughts are meant to do and be… general

Hot Or Not

Communication

I read and think a lot about personal and business growth. It seems that virtually every problem that has to do with you and someone else can all be fixed with open, clear communication. There was an

The SageRock Core Value

The SageRock Core Value reads: The concern, respect and empathy for the individual people we come in contact with at SageRock is our single core value. I’ve recently been thinking about what: Concern

Harvard Business Review on Management Innovation

Harvard Business Online | HBR This month’s issue is about Management Innovation. Man, this book is a good read. I’m so cheap I am always reluctant to dish out the $18 an issue on the news stand. So, I

Values and Integrity

This is an interesting topic simply because the business world seems to try on many levels to get you to give up your integrity. It almost seems that lack of integrity is like a club that everyone wan

Leadership Training

The reason I wrote the post, “SageRock Is In A Great Position,” is because I wanted to give a little background at to why I want to discuss Leadership Training. As SageRock grows, leadership developme

SageRock Is In A Great Position

Right now is a very exciting time at SageRock. For reasons we can’t exactly pin down, we are stronger than we have ever been.? There are at least three factors that are probably playing a part in that

Donaldson Resources: website design, internet marketing, northeast ohio

I just read a nice article on the Akron Beacon Journal from Mike Rasor. He featured Donaldson Resources. They are a one person web design company run by Sandra Donaldson. You can read the article here