Ask Mackey | Work & Passion
"Why are you here?" I asked. The Fortune 500 Executive responded, "Because I am burnt out and exhausted." "The company keeps reducing our department and adding more work load to those of us that aren't cut." [...]
Passion and Work
“Why are you here?” I asked. The Fortune 500 Executive responded, “Because I am burnt out and exhausted.” “The company keeps reducing our department and adding more work load to those of us that aren’t cut.” [...]
Understanding the Customers’ Perspective
We are a society obsessed with finding a “good deal”, which is why customers today place such a heavy emphasis on pricing. This leaves the business owner with plenty of questions: What should I charge? What [...]
Speaking Your Truth
It was the mid 1990’s and I was on the NKY Chamber Executive Committee as the Small Business Chair. Having been in love with business since I was in my 20’s, I was ecstatic to be [...]
Do you really own a business?
As business owners, it is so easy to let the business become your life. So much to do, so little time. At least that is what we tell ourselves. For life to be worthwhile, it needs [...]
Having Kids — Are You Going Back to Work?
This is a five part blog series focused on the financial aspects of having children. Specifically, the issues one should consider prior to bringing a child into a family. This is part three, Are You Going [...]
A View from the Future
reposted from The Goering Center Newsletter by: Mackey McNeill, President and CEO of Mackey Advisors Why can’t we all see the future? Edie Weiner, futurist, believes it is because we develop educated incapacity. Your experience [...]
A Search for Cinderella
We are a company of Cinderellas. Each of us is uniquely qualified for what our job entails, whether or not it is in our job description. Finding the team we have now was more luck than [...]
Go Beyond Customer Service
For those of you who don’t know what Hubspot is I will give you a very brief overview. Hubspot is a SAAS company that provides tools for inbound marketing success. We have been using the system [...]
Affordable Care Act Notification Penalty as of October 1, 2013
Beginning October 1, 2013 any business with at least one employee and $500,000 in annual revenue must notify all employees by letter about the Affordable Care Act’s health-care exchanges, or face a fine up to $100 [...]