CEO Advisory

With defense spending totaling $610 billion in 2017, the United States spends more than any other nation on military in the world, while China ($228 billion) and Saudi Arabia ($69 billion) placed second and third, respectively. But as a percent of the gross domestic product, the United States spends about...

A coin has two sides, meaning that every concept has its' supporter and opponent. Hard to believe but sales funnels have skeptics who don't believe they deliver the results. They hate hearing about sales funnels and how they connect thousands of businesses to their real buyers and how entrepreneurs grow...

For anyone who dreams of starting their own business, the fact that 50 percent of new ventures fail in the first few years is a daunting thought. Of course, no one starts out expecting to be one of the many that don’t make it, but the reality is too many...

I recently did something that scares the crap out of most entrepreneurs: I completely disconnected from the small business I started. As in I shut down my email. I left the country. And I instructed clients and employees not to contact me unless human lives were at stake or the...

There was a time when you could hit ‘publish’ on a romance novel and expect a decent income from Kindle Direct Publishing. Unfortunately, this is not the case anymore. The Kindle Bookshop has been flooded with poorly written novels and short stories that lure readers away from the decent quality...

As we head into 2019, few people haven’t heard of Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, and blockchain in a business setting. The benefits of blockchain and cryptocurrency have been felt throughout, with internal structures radicalised through the decentralised ledger technology in major companies, such as Walmart, Maersk, and FedEx, and cryptocurrency, such as...

From online shopping to all sorts of financial transactions, the internet has completely transformed the way we spend our hard-earned money. Yet the digital revolution is far from over, as every year, new trends push online spending in new directions – and we take a look at how the landscape...

We live in a world of industry disruption: from Amazon forcing brick-and-mortar stores to close their doors, to the likes of Netflix and Hulu disrupting traditional television distribution, to ride-hailing apps grabbing 75% of the ground transportation market share, to digital media platforms rendering newspapers extinct. Granted, there are companies...

Today, it seems that cybersecurity is one of the hottest topics out there.  All you need to do is turn on your computer or TV screen, and you’ll likely hear another news story about some group of anonymous hackers who’ve infiltrated and compromised a major company’s valuable customer information. That...

Online businesses are on a roll thanks to the power of the internet and marketing that help people buy things from the comfort of their homes. However, a lot of us think that an online business is very easy to run and there’s a little chance of suffering a loss...