Today I am going to the funeral of a man I feel that I knew – but never actually met. Carol’s father, Bernie, passed away unexpectedly last week. He went into the hospital for emergency brain surgery, and it didn’t go well. He died shortly thereafter. I Read More

Entrepreneurs are by nature an optimistic group. How else could you do something as crazy and potentially risky as starting a business? Sure, there is less security at corporate now – but there often isn’t much more when you run your own business. It is really Read More

This isn’t a fun post for me to write. I received a whack upside the head from the stupid stick recently and thought I would share what I learned, so you don’t have it happen to you. As Dr. John says, “I was in the right Read More

Today is a really fun day for me because I get to share probably the most valuable strategy I learned from one of my mentors, Michael Port. For those of you who don’t know Michael, he is the New York Times bestselling author of Book Yourself Read More

We are not the blog that will say, “Start a business and get a life!” We think starting a business is a serious undertaking, not to be entered into lightly. However, if you have decided that owning a business is the right decision for you, we Read More

I have read that Tina Turner didn’t really like the song. We know that it worked out pretty well for her. What’s love got to do with your business? Maybe nothing. Maybe everything. My friend Bonnie Karpay said in a recent teleclass we did together that Read More

When you join a service that allows you to post content like YouTube or SlideShare, they send you weekly e-mails with statistics, including how many views. Mostly you probably ignore these, but sometimes they can make you fall off your chair. That happened to me twice Read More

It’s a rush-rush world out there. A world of immediate gratification and 24/7 connectivity. It also is a world of a zillion shallow connections. So how do you build business relationships that last and deepen over time? How do you build relationships that make you money Read More

I caught the tango dancing bug years ago in Chicago. Every night, there are several places that you can go to dance the night away. It is a magical obsession with music, mood, parties, shoes, and yes, dancing tango. People who have been to my website Read More

Wishing all of you a happy, healthy, and prosperous New Year! Thank you so much for being part of the Business Unplugged community. See you in 2013. Carol Roth & Catherine Morgan     Read More