Why You Need to Make Friends with Your Marketing Enemies
With the economic climate as crazy as it’s been, now’s a great time to look to your ‘friendly’ competition for opportunities to help grow your list and add extra revenues to your bottom line. Even better, this can be done for virtually no out-of-pocket cost. Let me explain… For many…
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The 5 Percent Solution
The 5 Percent Solution means identifying what 5 percent of your tasks will actually drive your business forward in a major way.
READ MOREWhy You Should Do the Opposite of Normal
This weekend as I rode the train from the big city to my house in the country I went through some brainstorming homework for one of my coaching groups. As I worked through the exercises, I realized what I needed to do in order to take my business to the…
READ MOREDefining Advertising and the Three Possible Responses
Most advertising stinks. For instance, this has probably happened to you: some hotshot salesperson came walking into your place of business or contacted you online and told you that you’ve got to get your name out there. Get your name out there? Um, what exactly does that mean? “You know,…
READ MOREYour Most Important Long Term Decision
“The BHAG serves as a North Star (or Southern Cross if you’re down under) for you and your team as you continue to drive the business forward on a day to day business.” 99 stores supporting 99 villages is Thomas Lundgren’s 2020 vision for his Dubai-based company, The One Total…
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Six Proven Methods to Evaluate a Business Opportunity
Evaluate any business opportunity based on six specific criteria used to build a fortune of smart investments in profitable businesses.
READ MOREThe Promise
I used to be a pretty naive person. You see, I had this nasty habit of actually believing what people told me. Now as a personal quality, I imagine it’s not such a bad thing. But as a business skill, it can be a huge (and expensive) liability. Here’s just…
READ MOREThe Number One Person in Your Business
According to the ETR survey results, one of the biggest struggles among readers is identifying the right audience for their business. Today, I want to share with you a simple little exercise that will give you clarity and insight about the number one person in your business – your best…
READ MORE3 Essential Elements for Your Business
On Friday morning, my friends and I gathered in Austin, Texas to learn from information marketer, Ryan Deiss. For six hours, Ryan gave us a complete, no-holds barred inside look into his business, how they get traffic, his email secrets, and much, much more. It was easily the best coaching…
READ MORE5 Pillars of Information Marketing
Ask any entrepreneur about when they had their biggest breakthrough, and the answer will almost always be, “When I finally found the right mentor.” It certainly was for me. For six years I stumbled along with my website business, grinding out small increases in sales each year. It wasn’t until…
READ MOREIf She Can Do It…
When I first met my friend Carrie Wilkerson at a seminar in 2008, she was one of those people that everyone else was talking about – in a good way. I lost track of how many times I heard, “You need to meet/speak with Carrie,” over that weekend. And when…
READ MOREIs It Really Possible for Anyone to Be Successful?
While I stood at the bottom of the mountain, looking at all the people at the top, I wondered if I had what it took for them to get there. Every time I pushed myself to climb and then slipped or fell, it became that much harder to believe I…
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