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Extra Points: Higher Ground

I apologize for the delay. We had a glitch with the pairing of the blog with the newly re-imagined website. Working on getting that fixed!

Bella, our less notorious yet just as eminent dog, has a habit of finding her way towards “higher ground.” Bella correctly believes that by leaping atop a loveseat, couch, or chair, that her view of what is going on around her is significantly improved. For…

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Extra Points: What COVID-19 Can't Take Away from Your Business

Extra Points: What COVID-19 Can’t Take Away from Your Business

We’ve all spent a lot of time talking and worrying about what COVID-19 has done to our lives and businesses. But as with most crises, it can’t take away everything. Now let’s invest time and strategy towards what the virus has NOT taken away, and how you can propel your business forward into successful recovery. This week, I’m sharing three ways to accomplish this. You are encouraged to attend a…

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Extra Points: COVID-19 Resources

This week, I sent out my weekly missive with a ton of information on business and personal resources. To make it easy for you to find them, please visit the special COVID-19 Resource center on this blog:

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My new website is almost done. We were hoping to launch this week but as you can imagine are a bit behind. It will include this section. Until then, please come here to stay updated.

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Safeguarding the Financial Future For Your Loved Ones and Business

Life insurance has been a leading search term since the Coronavirus crisis began. The reason is simple; that mortality confidence is dramatically reduced for ALL age groups as we continue to see more cases and deaths both nationally and globally.

The need for life insurance to protect and safeguard the financial ability of loved ones and business debt for business owners has never been higher.…

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Projections and Predictions

As we begin to move into a new period of “normalcy,” we all need to understand that this means a ton of uncertainty and volatility. Everyone in business is impacted, and we all must fight during this time to survive and recover. To that end, we must begin making educated assumptions built around data from medical professionals and scientists. To help you be prepared to not only survive, but be in…

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Issue 1: Crisis Management for Small Business

Vol 1 Issue 1 Crisis Management for Small Medium Enterprises final

In conjunction with a team of leading global small and medium business advisors, we have prepared this special report to help small/medium enterprises and their leaders to not only survive–but thrive–in these interesting and challenging times.

The contributing authors include: Gary Furr, Art Koch, Oriol Lopez, Dean Robinson, and…

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Extra Points: The Oxygen Mask

How are you doing? Even the most positive-minded of us will have moments. Moments of uncertainty; moments of fear and anxiety; moments of sheer fright. It can be demoralizing and debilitating mentally, physically, and emotionally. I’d be lying to you if I told you I’ve not experienced many of these moments – more than once – over the past week and a half. It seems like a year ago we were simply…

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Unleashed® Biz Meetup: On COVID-19

Unleashed Biz Meetup on COVID-19 Crisis: Tuesday at 10 am PT / 1 pm ETFREE chance to talk with me to ask questions around crisis response, business challenges, and anything else you are concerned about. Join your peers to find out how you can help your business, you employees, and your supply chain partners. No obligation. Juts register and join us. I will be answering your questions for 45…

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Extra Points: Resolve, Not Panic

If you spend any amount of time on social media, you will likely have read many of the same things I have: “Don’t panic; It’s mainstream media fearmongering; it’s just the flu; we are over-reacting; I don’t know anyone that has it; where is the toilet paper?” Here is what we know based on science and facts: The Coronavirus pandemic is a global crisis. Because of the way it’s spread, the…

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Daily LIVE Updates on COVID-19 ad Your Business

Starting tomorrow, I will be providing a Facebook Live streaming update for business owners dealing with the COVID-19 crisis. It will air live at 9 am PT daily until the crisis is over. My goal is to give you daily updates and things to do to immediately help your business during these challenging times. All you have to do is LIKE my FB page: Join by clicking on videos. This brief update…

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COVID-19 and Your Business FREE Video Event

The past 48 hours have been like nothing I’ve seen in my over five decades of life. The disruption of business and the potential and likely lingering effect through 2020 is a Business Continuity challenge. For many businesses, it might be a survival challenge. REGISTERI’m offering a FREE video event for anyone that has questions and concerns for their business and the future. In this 45-minute…

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The Coronavirus Crisis and You

In the past two weeks, I’ve written extensively on the Coronavirus COVID-19 and the consequential impact on business and industry. I’d like to send my thoughts and comments now to you personally. As you are likely aware, I live in Washington State and we have been the hardest hit state in the Union. Our governor, joined by the Mayor of Seattle and King County Executive, outlined a response that…

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Extra Points: Do Not Disturb? NOT!

Disturb. Disrupt. Divide. You know how when you place a “Do Not Disturb” sign on your hotel room door when you leave for the day, you expect that nobody has come in to clean your room? That should be your expectation, and if it’s not then you need to find another hotel! We as business owners might sometimes try to put out that same sign for our business. We want to move straight ahead with our…

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Shrimp Tank Podcast: Matt Biondi

You will want to tune in today to listen to our podcast interview with guest, Matt Biondi, Principal of BiondiMedia in Edmonds, WA.

BiondiMedia has an affordable solution to growing your business, and developing business relationships.

They focuses on building online presence for our clients through website development, SEO, social media strategy and implementation, along with video story…

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Extra Points? More COVID 19 and Your Business & Life

If there is one thing that can shove politics off of the media stage, it’s a health crisis like Coronavirus (COVID 19). Last Tuesday, I wrote an article about Coronavirus and Business Continuity Planning for small and medium sized businesses. This blog post led to many calls to me by clients and business leaders. Since Tuesday, much has transpired as I write this on Saturday. I’d be remiss if I…

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The Coronavirus Crisis and Your Business

The Wall Street Journal and every other major news service is reporting that the Center for Disease Control (CDC) expects the Coronavirus to spread in the United States. The agency expects “sustained spread” and calls for efforts to “prepare for diagnosing and treating a large number of cases.” They caution it’s not a matter of if, but when and how bad. US officials say a vaccine is 12-18 months…

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Hard Work vs. Hustle. Which one are you? I’m the co-host of a nationally syndicated podcast called The Shrimp Tank. We interview CEOs and entrepreneurs from the Puget Sound area.

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