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Strategic thoughts on agency selection: One friend recently asked about how to select an agency when all proposals look great. Here are a few of my initial thoughts, plus a few more:
- Interview past clients who have used the agency more than 5 times in the last X years.
- Since each agency only shows their best examples, ask "under what constraints was this designed?" Great agencies, in my experience, demonstrate brilliance despite serious time, resource, knowledge etc. limitations.
- Accountability for results is also an effective way to separate the "wheat from the chaff". Meaning that if the agency knows the ROI and/or had to adjust based on client results then you will know if their portfolio is simply cooked up in a lab, or has undergone serious stress testing.
+ How much effort and research was completed, over and above minimum expectations? Was the agency aware of their own biases and took steps to overcome them?
+ Ask the agency to evaluate your proposed project against their optimum state. If they feel you are mostly similar to previous projects then ask about fixed pricing (most will run screaming from the room ... metaphorically speaking).

The value of fanaticism (not religious) = androgenous motivation drives the curiosity of fanatics. Very interesting TedMed talk by Vivienne Ming.

What do you do when you don't have to do anything? I enjoy practicing ROI.

https://youtu.be/o4ckVXyruks

The Paradox of Incentive Insensitivity Entrepreneur and theoretical neuroscientist Vivienne Ming describes how we can best harness and maximize our human potential, and the personal transformation...

Do you or your leaders settle for "half-assed answers"? Do you push for greatness? Tony Robbins: http://www.inc.com/tony-robbins/simple-rule-for-leading-an-engaging-meeting.html?cid=readmorevideoimage

Tony Robbins Has a Simple Rule for Leading an Engaging Meeting Tony Robbins, life coach and author of Money: Master the Game , explains why you can't tolerate distractions.

Considering developing a Wordpress site and using this Q&A tool. Does anyone have an opinion on this type of question and answer voting plugin?
https://wordpress.org/plugins/cm-answers/

CM Answers Enables users to post questions and answers (Q&A) in a stack overflow style. Includes voting, moderation, notifications, access control and more.

USA vs Canada, by the numbers:
http://www.indexmundi.com/factbook/compare/united-states.canada/geography

Well worded tax advice for SME/SMB business owners in Canada.
http://madanca.com/blog/tax-write-offs-for-small-business-in-canada-by-accountant-toronto/

What are the Tax write-offs for a small business in Canada? Find out what the tax write-offs for a small business in Canada are, and how they can save you money on taxes.