Continued from our first blog on Bob Parsons…on us, depending on casualties), and most every night we left our command post and went several kilometers out into the rice paddys and set up in ambush. While there are many who saw significantly more combat action than me, I did see my share. After 5 or 6 weeks, I was wounded and medevaced to Japan. I returned to Viet Nam (more…)

Late in 2004, I was asked by BizAz Magazine (a local Phoenix magazine) to speak at one of its “Business Beneath The Surface” breakfast meetings. As part of the event, participants have the option of submitting questions to the speakers, which are then answered during the breakfast.

One of the questions directed toward me was, “What advice do you have for someone who is just starting a (more…)

Contents in the May 15, 2007, Tuesday Report, published by BarterNews magazine, include (more…)

The iwannatrade.com site offers a number services–like (more…)

Karen Hoffman, the IDEA Coach and co-founder of City of Experts, a past trade exchange owner, as well as serving the commercial barter industry as its Executive Director (more…)

From Tom Greco: Correspondence with various colleagues and contacts over the past few months has resulted in several invitations to speak or collaborate in various parts of the world. In consideration of that, I have decided to (more…)

what’s the greatest power on earth? No, it’s not the U.S. military…I believe it is the (more…)

Almost everyone wants to own a business these days - from teens and college students, who are signing up for entrepreneurial courses in record numbers; to those over age 65, who are forming more companies every year; to recent immigrants, who in 2005 started 25% more companies per capita than (more…)

As a member of a trade exchange, you may lend some trade dollars to another member. Later, when you are repaid with trade dollars deposited into your account, they appear as (more…)

A very interesting article was published in the May 10 issue of Wall Street Journal on how a posh hotel, the Peninsula Beverly Hills, carefully (more…)