The Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption took effect in the U.S. on April 1, 2008. As such, the United States now partners with 75+ countries around the world in this convention to facilitate international adoption.
The U.S. implementation of this Convention has been the catalyst for […]
Posted on May 2nd, 2008 by admin
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Last year I took an insightful MBA marketing class from Dr. Gary Rhodes and Dr. Michael Swenson. The concept which stood out the most to me in their course was that we should “sell to the swing group through the eyes of the love group.”
When Dr. Rhodes and Dr. Swenson taught this principle, they […]
Posted on April 3rd, 2008 by admin
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I have been a “domainer” (someone who buys and sells Internet domain names) since 1996. Back then Network Solutions was the only domain name registrar and they charged $100 to register each name. They allowed domain names to be registered without paying up front, and then they billed the registrant who had about […]
Posted on March 30th, 2008 by admin
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Disneyland and Disneyworld are the most famous and successful theme parks in the world. The Walt Disney Company is now the third largest entertainment company in the world with 133,000 employees and $60 Billion in revenue. According to Fortune magazine, in 2007, Disney is America’s most admired entertainment company.
According to Newsweek, the Disney brand is […]
Posted on March 25th, 2008 by admin
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One of the focuses of this blog is “social enterprise”. My good friend, Ward Andrews, recently asked me to define this term and mission of my blog. A social enterprise is a business (for-profit or non-profit) which has a socially driven mission. For example, Adoption.com, is a website which operates a […]
Posted on June 20th, 2007 by admin
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When I started my first company, about 10 years ago, I dropped out of school and moved back to Arizona. My father gave us a file storage area that was about 12′ x 5′ that we used as the corporate offices for Adoption.com. I got free rent living at home and mooched food off my […]
Posted on June 10th, 2007 by admin
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Recently, a large adoption organization hired a new president. A few months ago I had the pleasure of having dinner with him and several members of his staff while attending an adoption tradeshow in Texas. I stick out a little in the child welfare community because of my conservative political views in a […]
Posted on June 8th, 2007 by admin
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