My New Pet & Grab It Baby
If you were looking for a funny or heart felt blog like last weeks… Sorry to disappoint… This is totally geeked out! My New Pet We have a new big cat in the house… it’s a Snow Leopard. Some people...
View ArticleTechnology Grows Tech-Know-logy
People get very passionate on social media. One of the things I try to teach people is “If you want to polarize or tick-off 1/2 your audience… talk politics or religion.” Whether you are talking...
View ArticlePut Me In COACH … I’m Ready To Play … Today!
Do you know who my favorite coach was? It was my dad! He spent a lot of time coaching all of us at baseball, softball and swimming. When I was a kid, I used to have to shop in the husky section of...
View ArticleOvercoming Overwhelm
Have you ever felt like a human doing … As opposed to a human being? In this highly connected, multimedia, I need it yesterday world, it’s so easy to become overwhelmed. Some people will say that you...
View ArticleBad Things Happen To Good People … Conquering Crisis
Do you ever lose sleep over your business? Okay, I may be dating myself, but there’s an old Three Dog Night song called “One is the Loneliest Number”. Being a small business owner or solopreneur does...
View ArticleDo You Have A Sales Funnel?
Do you remember participating in science fairs as a little kid? There were all kinds of cool experiments involving magnets, paper and lots of other stuff. But by far the coolest experiment that always...
View ArticleDo You Need More Sales? Generate More Leads!
Taking The Leads! I don’t know about you, but I’m a sports nut. I love baseball, football, hockey, basketball, and especially golf. Now, I know at least some sports are probably boring to you, and some...
View ArticleDewd, Pass Me That Joint … Venture!
Junior Varsity Way back in high school (I mean WAY BACK), JV stood for junior varsity. I loved playing football! When I was in middle school I was a bruiser middle linebacker. I realized when entering...
View ArticleI Was Homeless … Making A Marketing Impact
So What Does This Have To Do With Marketing? Everything… I think one of the hardest things to learn in marketing is empathy. Once you learn to walk in the shoes of your client and know their needs,...
View ArticleDo You Have The Million Dollar Mindset?
If I Had A Million Dollars… If I had a million dollars I’d build a tree-fort in our yard If I had a million dollars you could help It wouldn’t be that hard If I had a million dollars Maybe we could put...
View ArticleTalk About Talking, Using Interviews To Grow Your Business
I like to talk. As a matter of fact, I learned at a very early age that I am an auditory learner. There are three basic types of learners: visual – those who love to read and respond to pictures,...
View ArticleTime Travel … Scheduling Software – My Secret Weapon
I don’t know about you, but I am time zone challenged. I live in Chicago so we are in Central Daylight Savings Time, which is -5 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), and not to be confused with Universal Time...
View ArticleProductivity … Who Has Time For That?
I was sitting on a plane last night on a flight coming back from giving a speech in LA, and I thought to myself, how much space do I have to work here? I boarded the plane with the best intentions of...
View ArticleThe Online Marketing Trifecta … Generate New Leads
It’s A Race… Online marketing is tough. You can try to outspend, or outplay your competition, however you have to realize that Google owns 70-80% of all online searches. So you really only have two...
View ArticleMaking Your Sales Pages and Sales Letters Sizzle
Play To Your Strengths … Hire To Your Weaknesses I am not a writer … I am a speaker. Or, so I thought? I have been writing blogs for years, and they have looked better over the last few because I hired...
View ArticleNeed A Kick Start? Start Off Strong With A System
Resolve To Be Resolute Happy Holidays and Happy New Year! We all know people who have joined gyms with nothing but the best intentions… Only 12% of all gym members sign up in January. 80% of those who...
View ArticleStart Looking Back … To Move Forward
Past … Present … Future The New Year is filled with hope and promise – I hope you start out with a plan and I promise that people are going to try to steer you from that plan! Those plan-wranglers...
View Article5 Ways To Create Content With A Purpose
Pea Soup I don’t know about you, but I am not a big fan of pea soup. Some people love it, but I just don’t. What I do know is that good pea soup starts with last week’s (or yesterday’s) ham bone. Now,...
View ArticleHow Coaching Can Help You Grow Your Business
There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are...
View ArticlePeople Will Profit From What You Are Selling … But Do They Know Why?
Profit For The People One of the greatest feelings I get as a business person is when I help others make more money. That is the purpose of my business. I believe that marketing should always be an...
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