Author: Tony Novak
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Personal opposition: active vs passive
When we confront things in life that we do not like or find distasteful, we have a choice between taking an active or a passive position in opposition. It occurs to me that understanding this distinction and contemplating the difference in our daily lives is an important part of our personal maturity. There are few…
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Summarizing our current situation
Let’s summarize: 1) We have a housing shortage, a worker shortage, a skills shortage, a savings shortage, and a growing cash flow shortage for the majority of middle class people. 2) The wage and income gap, however measured, has been widening almost every year for more than 50 years. 3) Government debt continues to grow.…
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A reflection on the lack of diversity among my business clients
Today I notice that my alma mater Villanova University, located in my former neighborhood, just named nine new members to its law school professional staff and included a headshot photo of each. Only one of the nine is an Anglo-Saxon man. That new hire ratio is quite a difference from my own new client ratio.…
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Marketing options for sole practitioner accounting practice
The background is posted here. A recent analysis of my business new client acquisition showed four things: 1) Virtually all new clients self-selected me after reading published online reviews. 2) By the time I became aware of them, usually by their telephone voice message and my returned phone call, there was no further sales process.…
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My unusual small business history
The purpose of this post is to provide a brief background into an unusual situation where I am soliciting feedback on marketing for my businesses. I launched a solo financial advisory practice focused on serving small businesses more than 30 years ago. I fell into niche of serving small business contractors since I had a personal…
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The best microphones for my small business
I rarely write about physical products except in the case when it appears that clear advice is lacking in the marketplace. While that situation seems almost impossible, I did find this issue recently when shopping for a personal microphone for my office. The purpose of this post is to help save time for another person…
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My long slow boring health journey
Those in my generation are aware of the dramatic shift in public health information over our lifetime. Much of what we believed 50 years ago is taboo today. We lived through fads of belief that tobacco was healthy, that processed food could substitute for raw foods, the three martini business lunch was sustainable, the crusade…
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More on video evidence in court
Last week I posted a blog that commented on the surprising difficulties I faced this month having vehicle dash and bumper camera video evidence admitted as defense into a local Millville traffic court case. I’ve also been exposed to a number of cases in various courts (many mentioned in past blog posts) where regulators and…
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What I learned from Millville traffic court
It seems that once or twice a decade I wind up in traffic court. It’s never for some common thing. It’s always a bizarre incident. Before this week it was a few years ago when a guy alleged that my parked car rolled backward a few feet into his while I was in the backseat…
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“Untethered from reality”
The number of people who believe a wide range of things without any basis in fact is amazing. Yet it is nothing new. Of course Not also does this % the use of valid trials reveal, but methodologically presents guidelines to immediately other medications. If a prescription with damage recommendation in AMR highlights to take…