John Wooden Lessons for Life, Sports and Business

John Wooden is regarded as the most successful coach in sports history.  Wooden has had 12 NCAA final four appearances resulting in 10 championship wins.  Wooden also has an amazing 80% overall winning percentage.  John Wooden’s principles of success drove his life and those lessons transferred over into everything he did including his coaching career….

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Know your Worth

Guest post by Robert Urban — Show me a “how to”  instruction video and I can do just about anything… or can I? Recently, a situation occurred in my house that consisted of a significant plumbing issue.  I Googled it, read articles, and knew all the  jargon to make myself seem knowledgeable to the Home Depot expert when requesting…

Entrepreneur Wives

Guest post from my fiance @lindsay273 —- I recently discovered a guilty pleasure of mine is the show “Basketball Wives”. I started thinking that there is something to be said for Entrepreneur’s wives, future wives and girlfriends. Entrepreneurs are very unique and special individuals. They are self starters, they are motivated, intelligent and they do…

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Tips for Investor Pitches

This past Friday I had the opportunity for the second year in a row to Judge the UCF Joust Business plan competition.  This competition, one that I previously won two different times, is organized by UCF’s college of business and numerous successful business leaders and investors are invited to judge various team’s business plans, venture…

The Empty Party Scenario

At Brand Advance we have a steady stream of people that discuss their online ventures with us both from a marketing and web development perspective. A relatively large amount of these projects involve some sort of community or social aspect. When it comes to growing a community based site or social network I always caution…

GroupTable featured on California News Station

Hi Everyone, This past week GroupTable was featured on a news station in California.  GroupTable is a collaborative software that improves group communication, planning and document management.  GroupTable now has thousands of users all around the world.   In addition to being a founder I was also the CEO of GroupTable for over a year until…

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2010 Internet Marketing Predictions, Trends & Tips

It’s no secret that technology changes extremely fast.  Often times keeping up and implementing trends in technology is like hitting a moving target.  Internet marketing is no different.  From changes in Search Engine Algorithms (like Google’s Caffeine– that had a large roll out following the holidays) to new social media innovations like Posterous…The world of…