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Success results from a solid strategy. Even the greatest ideas are of little value unless they are backed up by a practical and workable plan of action. The word strategy comes from an ancient Greek term which literally means to be a general, leading troops into battle.

Was I having a nightmare? Was I just watching too many reruns of The Twilight Zone? Maybe taking the Halloween spirit too far?  No, it simply occurred to me that you might not have a solid backup and disaster recovery plan in place!

And if your server data was erased, corrupted or destroyed because of a hardware malfunction, system crash, fire, flood or some other random, unforeseen disaster, you might not be able to get back up and running again FAST!

The thought of that happening scared me half to death!  And quite honestly, it should scare you too!  Just imagine what would happen if your server went down and you…

… Lost all accounting documentation and history

… Lost all the work files you’ve spent YEARS developing

… Lost the work files and documentation you desperately need

to service your customers

… Lost all the e-mails you’ve saved and couldn’t access your inbox

Can you even put a price tag on it? Probably not, yet so many business owners aren’t 100% certain that they could be back up and running after a disaster.

If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.

President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute.

Although businesses have been getting rid of Windows XP over the last several years, the fact remains that as of last December, around 500 million users were still running Windows XP. Here are 7 of the top reasons it’s time to finally give up Windows XP now.

You can line up DOMINOS in a beautiful pattern and spend hours doing it … but all you have to do to knock them all down is PUSH over the first one (the lead domino) and the rest will follow. The same is true about a business. You can spend years and years building up a great business with a super reputation and one employee can cause a customer to never do business with you again.

A recent AOL online article titled “The Scary Truth Of How Terrorists Could Crash Your Car” freaked a lot of people out by implying that terrorists could easily hack into your car’s computer systems and wreck your car (or hundreds of cars at a time) at speeds exceeding 100 mph.

Most likely you’ve heard all of the commotion around cloud computing and know that it’s the “Next Big Thing” in business technology. Yet, despite all of the hype, most businesses really don’t understand exactly what cloud computing is and what it could do to help their business.

A can of diet coke will float to the top of water, but a regular coke will sink to the bottom. (Try it.)

The fourth richest man in the world (Warren Buffett) still lives in the house he bought for $31,500 in 1958.

The Munich Technical University has a 3-story slide used for students to get to class faster.

While it’s rare to find a marketing plan for most businesses, it’s even MORE rare to find a customer nurturing schedule. And given that most people walk around grossly underappreciated, developing a plan to thank and show appreciations for your customers is actually an easy way to stand out.

Do what you need to do now so you will eventually get to do what you want to do later.

Discipline is the ability to get things done regardless of how you feel about doing them.

Passion only pays off when channeled into productive effort.

Others may believe in you, help you and support you, but ultimately nobody will do it for you.