by Angela Croft Planting the Seeds of Good Karma to Enrich Your Business and Life When I was first starting my coaching business, I heard one of my mentors at the time say that there’s no better personal development plan on the planet than starting your own business, and I couldn’t agree more. Building a […]
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A powerful 5 minute video on the notion of building trust and slow marketing. While most marketing is about getting control of more ‘space’ in the world Sarah Morning lifts up the notion of building a relationship over time. It’s a reminder that it’s not just about width of reach, it’s also about depth. It’s
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Mike Rowlands opens his workshop on branding by telling us about how a hotel manager in Victoria BC shot out a window of his hotel with a shotgun. It’s day two of the Social Venture Institute and I’m sitting with 30 other social entrepreneurs and savvy do gooders in Olatunji Hall Back to this hotel
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A lot of people want to get discovered. They dream of speaking on big stages to tens of thousands of people. They dream of being on Oprah. They dream of having a best selling book. My frank opinion is that 99% of these people are not ready for that kind of spotlight. To be even
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I just got an email from a participant of my Spring 2012 workshop in the UK. She wanted to send me money. I had completely forgotten about this. At the weekend workshop, which I run on a Pay What You Can basis she’d told me, “I’ll be in the United States in the summer. Can
Three months ago, I wrote a blog post called Slow Marketing. It was all about how it’s okay (even important) to slow down our marketing. This is a wonderful philosophy but what if you need money yesterday? What if you’re so broke and you can’t afford rent? All of a sudden, the slow approach while
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I’m in Vancouver sitting at yet another favourite hang out spot here – Eternal Abundance (full of raw vegan goodness, comfy chairs, high ceilings and lots of natural light). I love places like this. I just finished my weekend workshop in Vancouver (and Victoria the weekend before that). You can see photos here. And something
Marketing is a lot like making tea. We need to ‘steep’. I just finished a marketing weekend in Edmonton with the loveliest bunch of people. And it kept coming up for me that there are some things that just can’t (or shouldn’t) be rushed. Creating your platform or figuring out who’s a perfect fit for
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by Howie Jacobson In my last article, I talked about projection: what it is, why it keeps us from seeing the world as it really is, and how marketing offers us an opportunity to recognize and free ourselves from the grip of projection. Now I want to talk about why it’s so important to liberate
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by Howie Jacobson “Most of my clients are liars and cheats,” Allen (not his real name) said. I sighed. It was going to be a difficult consultation. I was helping Allen improve his marketing. He wanted to know the best wording for AdWords ads that would attract prospects to his website and away from his
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