Everyday customers come into our bowling center or FEC expecting something; whether it is a good time, fun with the family, an escape from the ordinary or just to do something different. But make no mistake, they are expecting something and after looking at your website, email or Facebook post they…
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Been in the great heartland this week, spending time in Des Moines at the Iowa BPA meeting where I presented “Fred’s Fabulous Fundraising Program” to an enthusiastic group of proprietors who are really engaged in their business. Really nice to be with such great folks. Then it was off on a two…
You know the feeling; you look forward to something for a very long time and when it arrives, the happy anticipation turns into the present reality and then, poof, it is gone. No doubt, at one time or another, we have all had that experience and Friday morning, after flying…
I’m going to be seeing many of you next week at Bowl Expo and I am looking forward to it as I always do. It’s my chance to catch up with old friends, make new friends and learn some new stuff. I have a plaque on my wall that says “I am still…
Will I see you at Bowl Expo this year? Maybe we will see each other at the cocktail party on Monday night? Or at the awe inspiring FREE BVL Breakfast on Thursday morning which I am personally inviting you to attend. Or perhaps just walking from seminar to seminar?Lots of time…
One of my newest non bowling clients asked me to accompany him on a sales call and observe his sales methods.Over the few weeks I had worked with him, I had counseled him that he had a tendency, during a sales call, to push too hard and “pile on” facts…
From native tongues to indistinguishable- never-heard- of-languages. All in the City of Paris. No doubt the same could be true in other cities as well. Marie and I took a mini vacation to Paris as a special anniversary reward for ourselves, but basically it was a reward for her for her putting up with my…
When I first started in this business, proprietors’ asked me for my latest “gimmick?” I told them I didn’t have one. Hmmm, they said.Years later, they asked me “what new ideas” I have. I told them I didn’t have one. Hmmm, they said.After that I got questions like, “how can…
I like to scour the SAAB classifieds, whether it is for parts, wheels, whole cars or some unusual piece of sculpture that someone made out of parts. It’s all a great diversion for me, a diversion I dedicate just 15 minutes a day towards…uh, maybe 20 minutes.While I like to do…
When faced with a blank piece of paper I am at once elated and secondly I am terrified.Elated because I have an opportunity to write down my thoughts, ideas and feelings as well as being excited and hopeful that my words will inform or uplift or perhaps inspire the reader. Terrified,…