Most of the people who come to my Marketing for Hippies 101 workshops feel like failures in marketing. Some because they tried everything and it hasn’t worked out the way they were told it would. Some because they’ve tried nothing at all. But many of them seem to come through the doors feeling like something […]
What if there’s nothing wrong with you? Read More
Guest Post by Craig Filek Fall is in the air. Can you feel that back-to-school vibe? This time of year supports “New Year Resolutions” better than the dormancy of winter’s long night. Whether you’re fresh out of school, or catching your second wind via your school-age children, we’re all entrained to make major behavioral shifts
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During my last tour in Toronto leading my Marketing for Hippies 101 workshop, I was asked the same question, twice in different workshops. “But don’t people have a hard time making decisions?” And, both times, I had to stop to address it. The notion that people struggle to make decisions is one of the classic
“But aren’t people indecisive?” Read More
If you’ve ever struggled with confidence in building your business, this blog post is for you. This blog post isn’t written to give advice so much as it is to comfort and console and to lift our gaze up from our personal struggles to the bigger context in which they lie. It is a long
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“The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.” – Carl Jung Sometimes in business things go wrong. Sometimes it’s because we are out of integrity. Sometimes it’s because others are. Sometimes, everyone’s in integrity and it still falls apart. However it happens, there’s
What am I being asked to see here? Read More
If you’re on this list you’re an entrepreneur but, if I know my people at all, that really means you’re a solopreneur. Emphasis on the word “solo.” That means you’re doing almost everything alone. And you think that you should be doing better. This is insanity. What if, instead of beating yourself up for not
Getting Unstuck: The Five Minute Support-Asking Blitz Read More
Authenticity is not a goal. It’s a byproduct of something else. It’s not something you can put on like a coat. It’s not a strategy. It’s not something you can posture at. It’s not even the goal. It’s the result of something else that you’re doing. There’s the old story of the archer who misses
Stop Trying To Be So Authentic Read More
I’ve met so many people who come to my workshops and, at breaks, speak to me in overly familiar terms about how they already know this stuff and how many books they’ve read and marketing courses they’ve gone to. Everything they’re saying gestures to my flip chart notes covering the walls towards the end of
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* This blog post is the first in a series of posts exploring the connection between marketing and The Work of Byron Katie. * Frankly, I’m tired of hearing people talk about the importance of working on your ‘inner game’ in business. Because most of what I hear feels like self pressuring bullshit to constantly do
The Work of Byron Katie in Marketing: “Why aren’t people buying from me?!” Read More
If there is a missing ingredient to success in business it’s not know-how, it’s hustle. It’s the ability to get busy and make things happen. It’s not having more resources, it’s resourcefulness. When people are driven and committed they so often find a way to make things work while those who aren’t committed find a