Dear Market: How Your Emotions Hurt Buying Decisions
Dear Market, I hope you read this and know it is coming from a place of love. There is something you need to know about yourself. Sometimes you let...
Friday Favorites – 8/9
Klaire is a big fan of National Park Service’s voice on Instagram. “They grab your attention with an awesome photo or video plus a funny or witty first line,...
Image Compression – The Easiest Way to Speed up Your WordPress Site
If your WordPress site has large imagery on it, the best thing you can do to reduce page abandonment and help SEO is to compress your images. How Does...
Getting Started With Your Marketing Plan
When it comes to your marketing plan where do you even begin? You may be sitting there staring at a blank sheet of paper or empty whiteboard with no...
Strategies for Innovation
Recently, I got to enjoy an innovation workshop led by Stephen E. Wright at New View. I was very energized by his approach and the topic as a whole....
How to Use Asana Effectively in Your Business
Here at Syrup, we use the project management tool Asana for all our task management and workflow needs. This is a popular tool used by many businesses around the...
How to Buy Professional Services
The purpose of this article is to help small companies avoid mistakes, waste, and cost (both financial and opportunity) when buying professional services. These are some things I’ve learned...
Be Creative for Yourself, Not Just for Your Work
My job allows me to be creative every single day. I’m very grateful for that, but I’ve recently realized that it’s inadvertently caused a major problem for me: I...
Purpose Capacity
I recently talked about the idea of growing your capacity. To recap, the equation for growing your capacity in life is P/PC – your production over your production capability. This allows you...
Growing Capacity
In the introductory chapters of the 1987 book, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey talks about his equation for growing your capacity in life. It is simply:...