After almost four years of running an independent consulting business, I’ve started to notice some quarterly trends in business activity. For example, the first quarter of a new year has shown a similar amount of interest in our consulting services with a predictable change in the second...

An independent consulting business has one of the lowest start-up costs.

 As a new consultant, you basically need to a website, a logo, a scheduling application, a project management system, and maybe a customer relationship management system (CRM). The CRM is optional especially since there...

Gone are the days when you saved seven different versions of your resume, one for each slight variation of the many job postings you monitored. You likely shudder at the thought of smiling through the multi-step recruitment whac-a-mole of the screening call, the hiring manager interview, the...

There is no shortage of advice about how to manage (and optimize) your time as an entrepreneur. I’ve given this some thought and decided to share the time management strategies I found helpful when I was a solo consultant and now that I have a small staff.

Some of these tips...

Lisbon was the third and final destination on a three-country trip in Europe spurred by my daughter’s study abroad stint in Germany. 

As soon as I arrived at the Humberto Delgado Airport, there were noticeable differences from Barcelona.

I stayed at an Airbnb located in...

Barcelona is a beautiful city full of amazing sights.

It is also the capital city of Spain’s autonomous Catalonia region and is known for its art and architecture. 

I arrived in Barcelona in June 2022 after spending eight days with my children in Germany because my youngest was...