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Business
- Why You Need a Bid Sheet to Quote and Sell Water Features
- Dream Team
- Today’s a Good Day
- There’s Always a Silver Lining
- When Lightning Strikes
- Celebrating 29 Years of Business: Aquascape, Inc.
- A Needle in a Haystack
- How the Real World Works
- What Can a 48-Year Old CEO Learn from an 18-Year Old?
- Did the World Forget There’s 3 Sides to Every Story?
- A House Divided Cannot Stand
- Passion + Commitment + Stories = Purpose
- Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t
- The #1 Goal of a CEO
- A Week in the Life of a 365-Day Vlogger
- The College Experience
- The “Secret” to Success
- Opposites Attract
- It Takes a TEAM
- Immigration – Harsh Reality for Today’s Business Owners
- Wild Energy
- The Worst Day In The Field Is Better Than The Best Day In The Office
- Getting Better Together
- Diamond in the Rough
- The Chair
- My Political View
- Still Made in America…PROUDLY!
- The Only Way to Quit a Job
- Earning the Corner Office
- What Success Looks Like
- What FORBES Didn’t Say
- I’m Not a Very Likeable Guy
- Are You Number One At “Work?”
- You Can’t Win Them All
- A Real Eye Opener
- A Winning Mindset
- Pond Stars, Reinvention and You
- Don’t be Like Tony
- The ‘Secret’ to Success
- The Best Way to Learn Anything and Be Two Places at Once
- EVERYTHING is Changing
- My Mentors!
- Passion Before Profits
- Social Media Mania
- The Most Important Blog I’ve Ever Written
- Chicagomonium, 2014, March 17th & 18th Come Create the Future with Us!
- Manage Your Business Like You Would a Tomato Plant
- The Cost of Opportunity
- Admitting You’re Weak Gets You Stonger, Pretending You’re Strong Gets You Weaker
- Pond Products, Pond Shops, and Product Creep, Part II
Contractor Articles
- Small Ponds: Big Profits
- Before You Dig, Think About the Pond Plants
- Boost Your Revenue with Pond Cleanout Services
- Choosing the Right Rocks for Your Water Feature
- Creative Pond Edging Ideas
- How to Avoid Fish Loss During Pond Cleanouts
- Understand and Manage Your Business Financials with Confidence
- How to Naturalize Your Water Features
- Pond Building and the Artistry of Stone
- 5 Pond Plant Tips for Your Customer’s Water Feature
- 5 Critical Reasons for Using Gravel in a Pond
- How to Design a Dream Pond for Your Customer
- Top 10 Pond-Building Mistakes to Avoid
- How to Excavate a Pond the Right Way
- Why Oxygen Is Important to a Pond Ecosystem
- The Most Effective Way to Filter Pond Water
- Survival of the Fittest!
- Take Our Self-Assessment Business Survey
- Web Design and Hosting Options with MetaGroove
- A Man and His Urn
- Proper Care for Koi and Common Myths
Marketing
- How I Went from Zero to 10,000 in 41 Days!
- My Strategy For Not Becoming Archie Bunker
- The POND GUY, Greg Wittstock on MSNBC
- Our Magazine, My Magazine, Your Magazine
- 2014 the Defining Year for the Industry, Aquascape and You!
- Times They Are a Changing
- The Best Way to Succeed in the Water Feature Business
- There’s One Best Way to Skin a Cat. Period.
- Chicagomonium is Pondemonium minus Cabomonium equaling Shindemonium
- The Shinholser Effect
- You’re an Artist Second, a Businessman First
- The Chicago Flower and Garden Show
- What’s Your Marketing Habit?
- The Pond Guys, Animal Planet & You!
- The Methodical, and Repeatable, Genius
- Everyone wants a water feature; they just don’t know it yet!
- Ponds Done Wrong, Customers Served Wrong
- Pond Shops, Pond Products and Pond Creep
- Ponds, Pond Shops and Pond People
- Reinventing Aquascape; From the Pumps, Packaging and Pricing
- The Aquascape Ecosystem Pond; Your 5 Part Recipe for Success!
- Chicago Flower & Garden Show, Aquascape showcases ponds, pondless waterfalls, fountainscapes, bubbling urns and Rainwater Harvesting System
Motivation
- The Old Man and the Kid
- Appreciating Life and Lessons
- Do You Believe in Miracles?
- My Kids Don’t Know Jack
- We Are All In This Together (we might as well sing)
- A Body in Motion Stays in Motion
- How to Find More Time in the New Year!
- Faith, Hope, and Love
- College Is Not the Answer
- Big Rich
- Let the Past Be the Past
- My Vlogging Journey on YouTube
- The Right Seat on the Bus
- With Age Comes Wisdom (Hopefully)
- One Incredible Lady
- Do You Live Life on Your Terms or Someone Else’s?
- The Howie Roseman Foolproof Approach to Success!
- Real Men Are Disappearing
- LOGAN PAUL!? BACK AT IT AGAIN!
- Logan Paul: Living the Aquascape Lifestyle!
- Pond Guy Challenge: Cyber Bullying
- This Is Divine!
- Are You Entertaining or Just Being an A**hole?!
- The Kind of Man Our World Needs More Of
- Leadership Starts at Home
- Be a “Mr. C” for Someone Else
- Outside The Box Parenting
- One Exceptional Family
- Happy Labor of Love Day!
- The Hardest Job that Requires the Most Help
- Be Happy Now!
- Cole Weede
- The Greatest Coach Ever?!
- MY HERO
- What I Wish He Would Have Said
- BILL MILLER
- Coach Rex
- The Pond Mom and the Leadership Boot Camp
- Don’t Ever Let A Teacher Tell You, You Can’t Make A Living Balancing Rocks!
- Who Do You Think Stormed the Beaches?
- Winning Begets Winning
- Success (and exhaustion). Act Like Men Palooza
- A Right Kind Of Role Model
- Surprise Backyard Makeover
- Leaving a Legacy
- Life’s 10% What Happens To You and 90% What You Do About It!
- A Winning Perspective
- Saving the Planet One Tweet at a Time!
- Build Your Team
- Are You The Man in The Arena?
- Three-Peat!
- Put the Ben’s Before the Benjamin’s
- My Problems are Bigger than Yours!
- Pondemonium, It’s Not About You, Even though It Is
- Be Happy…Now
- A Man and His Mountain, A Woman and Her Heart
- Pondemonium 2013
- Cabomonium, It’s Pondemonium on Quaaludes
- You Make a Living by What You Get; You Make a Life by What You Give
- The One Thing That A Business Provides That Matters Most
- What’s Your Pond Coaching Philosophy?
- What Happens at Cabomonium Comes Back From Cabomonium!
- You Can’t Teach Passion or LOVE
- Of Pit Crews, Ponds, and Passion!
News
Notes from Greg Wittstock
- How You Leave One Job, Is How You Start the Next
- Moms Should Let Their Kids Play Football!
- The “Parking” Lot at O’Hare
- Dealing with the Pandemic
- Lessons Learned from the Pandemic
- Before Corona (B.C.) After Corona (A.C.)
- Meet Charles of Master Cares
- Are You a Good Forgiver?
- Why the Hate?
- Are You a Giver or Taker?
- Cheating Death
- Birds of a Feather Flock Together
- The Last Turtle
- Use My Brain, Not Yours
- The Real Life Indiana Jones
- The World Needs to Take a Big, Giant, Fat, CHILL PILL!!!
- Do You Believe There’s 3 Sides to Every Story?
- It’s Better to Have Loved and Lost than to Never Have Loved at All!
- I Love Meeting Cool People!
- Not Me!
- A House Divided Cannot Stand
- Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall
- Event Plus Reaction Equals Outcome
- Holding Onto Bitterness Is Like Drinking Poison
- Every Time You Throw Dirt, You Lose
- Let Him Who Is Sinless Cast the First Stone
- The Purpose of Life is to Have a Purpose
- A Season of Lasts
Personal
- The Truth Will Come Out, It Always Does
- Logan Paul the Wonder Kid!
- Guilty – Even When Proven Innocent
- What a Successful Millennial Looks Like
- Be A GOOD Coach
- Make Your Time Here Count
- Of Diplomas and Resumes
- Hurting People Hurts Others
- Family and Friends – Now and in the End
- They Don’t Make ’em Like They Used To!
- LIFE LESSON
- A Huge Smile and a Warm Embrace
- Who Needs a Watch These Days Anyway?!
- Nature vs Nurture
- A Champion Cabo Couple
- When the Student Was Ready, The Teacher Arrived
- Different is Different
- A “Different” Perspective
- Choose Grace and Love
- How’s Living on a Deserted Tropical Island Sound?
- Today’s My Anniversary, Can You Hear What “She’s” Saying?
- A Dose of Reality
- My Dad Had a Heart Attack That Almost Ended With a Watery Grave
- A Super Friend!
- Of Mole Hills and Mountains
- What ONE piece of advice would YOU give future generations?
- Chills and Tears
- Who Are You; The Mayor or The Mom?
- A Passionate Purpose
- You Will Never Have Time … ‘Til You Make It!
- Incredible All Around
- Of Puppies and Ponds
- SMILE!
- Would You Stand Up for Your Values?
- Who Do You Take Into Battle?
- The Purpose of Life Is To Have A Purpose
- Who’s Your Team?
- Welcome to the Hot Seat
- Together We Are Better
- An “Incredible” Ride
- What I Wish Society Would C
- Get Better Not Bitter
- Hungry Life Happy Life
- Are you making a living or making a life?
- Autogenous Leadership…Is This You?
- Miracle in the Desert
- Super Mentors
- Up With the Old, In With the New
- Who Are You Doing Life With?
- Facebook or Fakebook?
- Going Where No TV Has Gone Before
- Script Your Own Reality
- Celebrate the Gift You’ve Been Given
- The Reality of The Future
- How Are You Reading This?
- Live Like You Were Dying
- Here’s One Fish Tale Worth Telling!
- What’s it like to be a Millionaire?
- Momentum: What is it and why is it important?
- Make Your Own Reality
- Making the Most of Your ’15 Minutes of Fame’
- Cows, Fish and Turtles…OH MY!
- Are You Teaching Your Kids to Dive for Their Oysters?
- Are You an Editor or an Author?
- What’s Your
- Do You Surge Ahead, Or Fall Back and Draft?
- The Two Reasons People Change
- Treat Him Like the CEO’s Son…PLEASE!
- We All Paint Our Own Path In Life
- Leave it to Beaver is Being Left Behind
- I’m Grateful but Scared because Everything is about to Change
- What’s Your Bus?
- People over Ponds
- Pride
- I Hope My Boys Don’t Go To College
- Facebook is a Very, Very, Cold Place
- My Life Birth to 40!
- Nothing is ever easy…
- Meet My New Friend Dedo
- Aquascape Does Not Negotiate with Terrorists!
- Thank You Madame President
- Sigh, the Wittstocks Won’t be Moving to the Dominican Republic After All
- Selling Aquascape
- The Wittstocks are Moving to the Dominican Republic
- Vacation at Work
- Is This the Job of a CEO?
- Today’s My Anniversary, Can You Hear What
- If You Want to WIN in Business and Life Have FUN!
Philosophy
- Happy New Year – Be Happy Now!
- What Kind of Ship are you Captaining?!
- The “Stream” Less Traveled
- STEAL THIS IDEA
- Can You Adapt Your Game for Today’s Players?
- Kindergarten Wisdom You Can Take to the Bank
- Don’t Swallow the Bait
- Star Teachers Build Star Pupils!
- What Kick A** Looks Like!
- Change Your World by Changing Your Thermostat!
- Be An Author Not An Editor
- Life’s 10% What Happens To You, 90% What You Do About It!
- A CUP OF PERSPECTIVE
- “Would You Share Your Heart At Work?”
- Proactive, Personable and Comfortable in Your Own Skin.
- If You Want a Job, Be Like Your Mom!
- Was I Born On Mars Or Was Everyone Else?!