I ran into a friend of mine last week and he suggested I check out this company he created that allows business professionals to schmooze with other random professionals and broaden their network.  Now I don’t know about you but every time I find myself at networking events, I find that I know more than half the people attending.  The whole point of networking is to meet people you don’t already know.  Enter GoSchmooze...

By: Daniel Mazzei & Justin Friedberg

Why is it so difficult for young professionals to break into their industry? Could it be because of the “generation gap” between them and the already seasoned business professional? Perhaps it is because of the difference in modern business perspectives?

As a young professional who is a product of the digital generation, I have come to notice that seasoned business professionals tend to look down on the newly graduated as inexperienced with a sense of entitlement. However, while I am inexperienced in traditional ways of business, my open minded use of my education allows me to view the marketing world differently than the generation that came before. For instance, was Facebook not conceived by a few college kids in a dorm room?...

The Basso Business Building Program features a unique format where we work with business owners and professionals to provide them with a formula for success through focused planning, strategic goal setting, weekly consulting sessions and candid video updates of their progress.  Brian Fagan of All Boro has been working diligently with the Basso on Business team to make changes in every aspect of his professional life in order to achieve his goals. This week Brian worked on improving his sales performance and prospecting.  To improve, he’s going to make sure he actually completes daily tasks that he knows are a necessity and get out of his own way.  He’s going to make sure he steps up his game and takes more accountability for his actions, or lack thereof.   His pipeline is growing and his attitude is improving a result.

Check out the video for Brian’s candid thoughts and make sure to leave your comments and suggestions.   Make sure to tune in each week for new updates from Brian and the Basso on Business team.   

By: Eileen Lichtenstein

Many competent people "self-sabotage" themselves every day by overreacting emotionally and hurting their relationships — both at work and at home and by staying stuck in habits that hurt them, such as procrastination,   disorganization, avoiding conflict ... the list goes on and on.

Many professionals can respond with a level head — even if they are ready to "blow a fuse" by adapting to workplace changes — even those that are tough to swallow and by sticking with difficult challenges when solutions don't come easily.  They can usually follow through on plans, turn "good intentions" into reality and meet more goals by developing  the steady self-control it takes to stand up for yourself and deal with conflicts positively.  They are able to break on-the-job habits that hurt you, like procrastination, disorganization, and others...

The Basso Business Building Program features a unique format where we work with business owners and professionals to provide them with a formula for success through focused planning, strategic goal setting, weekly consulting sessions and candid video updates of their progress.  Brian Fagan of All Boro has been working diligently with the Basso on Business team to make changes in every aspect of his professional life in order to achieve his goals. This week his task was to focus on implementing some of the Basso on Business team’s initial suggestions on changing his thought process in order to change the way he views his professional interactions and their outcomes.  If Brian can start changing the way he thinks and views the challenges he encounters, he can begin to turn each of those challenges into new opportunities. 

Check out the video for Brian’s candid thoughts and make sure to leave your comments and suggestions.   Make sure to tune in each week for new updates from Brian and the Basso on Business team.  

I just read an article on msnbc.com about how Americans view home ownership.  Despite an excruciatingly hard few years for the housing market, an unsurprising amount of Americans still believe that owning their own home is the best long term investment they can make.

We’re all familiar with the housing boom of the 90’s and early 2000’s, after which the mortgage crisis pulled home prices down almost 30% nationwide, with hundreds of thousands of owners losing their homes. However, according to the survey results generated by the Pew Research Center's Social and Demographic Trends project, 81 percent of adults believe "buying a home is the best long-term investment a person can make."  The results were typical of the US housing market; nearly half of all homeowners stated that their home is worse less now than before the recession, with the overwhelming majority saying it will take at least three years for values to regain enough ground to make back their losses, while nearly half say it will take at least six years to recover....

At Basso On Business we want to expand our reach to give back and help each and every part of the business world, including the online sector.

We launched a real world forum with Working Lunch where business professionals can come together and share insights to challenges and problems they’re looking to overcome while garnering advice and feedback.  As of today, we’ve launched our new LinkedIn group and have taken that same entrepreneurial mindset in bringing business owners and professionals together to help each other overcome challenges and problems and transcended our thinking into the social media realm...

Our company along with twenty other companies participated in the Action Long Island Wellness Challenge where we implemented Healthy Work Programs, scheduled educational “Lunch and Learn” seminars and participated in the American Heart Association’s Online Health Tracker Program.  The program ended in November but that didn’t stop us from continuing to promote wellness throughout the company....